The Spaniards of 2021: Pedro Acosta revolutionizes the MotoGP World Championship

On March 26, the 2021 season of the MotoGP World Championship got underway in Qatar. So, only the most motorcycling fans had heard of a certain Pedro Acosta. The boy from Puerto de Mazarrón (Murcia) had stood out in recent years in Spanish championships such as Cuna de Campeones or PreMoto3 .

His international debut did not take place until 2018, in the Junior World Championship, where he only took part in three races but he already left his mark by being 13th in Aragón. A year later he entered the Red Bull Rookies Cup and finished runner-up, despite missing the first two races at Jerez due to a concussion suffered in qualifying. Even so, he closed the year with three victories.

Its definitive explosion occurred in 2020 and not even the pandemic that conditioned the season could prevent it . He won the first six races and the promotion cup title. He was also third in the Moto3 Junior World Championship , where he won three races . And all after breaking his leg earlier in the year.

Those results earned him promotion to the World Cup. In principle, he was scheduled to make the jump with the Prustel team, but Raúl Fernandez’s promotion to Moto2 at the last minute opened a gap for him with Aki Ajo.

Pedro Acosta’s results in the 2021 Moto3 season

_{(Points and results per race)}

Pos	Pilot	Points
1	Peter Acosta	259	202	251	251	251	8 8	8 8	9 7	251	134	251	134	511	– –	9 7	8 8	163	251	– –

Acosta left some pearls in the preseason tests. He finished second in the aggregate at the Losail Circuit behind his teammate Jaume Masiá and was even able to lead the second session of the last day, without having made his debut in the World Championship yet.

The Qatar Grand Prix kicked it off by showing what the season was going to be. He led the first training session and only Masiá was able to prevent him from also winning the race. A week later he scored a massive first victory starting from the Losail pitlane through a penalty. He repeated in Portimao and scored a hat-trick in Jerez.

Outstanding leader of the championship, in the summer he hit the growth spurt and began to have a hard time on top of Moto3. KTM was quick to tie up its new talent and devised a plan to take him to MotoGP in 2024, before jumping to Moto2 next season. In fact, there was the possibility of going up directly without an intermediate stop, but due to his age –among other reasons– he preferred to wait.

With 17 years of age on May 25 , Acosta was burning stages like not seen for decades. So much so that he was one day away from equaling Loris Capirossi ‘s 1990 record as the youngest champion in history.

With six victories and the title in his pocket, the Mazarrón Shark threatens to continue making history in 2022, already in Moto2. Without a doubt, he has been one of the Spanish protagonists to shine this 2021.

In detail, the numbers of Pedro Acosta’s 2021 season in Moto3

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