Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Pedro Acosta has clinched the 2023 Moto2 world championship two rounds before the end of the current season to extend his phenomenal march through the MotoGP™ pyramid. The 19-year-old Spaniard now has two world titles in different categories after just three years in Grand Prix racing.
Having decimated the 2020 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, Acosta made an emphatic leap to Moto3™ as part of the KTM GP Academy in 2021; winning his debut Grand Prix in Qatar and then accumulating five further triumphs and seven more podiums to rule the division at the first attempt.
He moved to Moto2 for 2022 and took just eight rounds to ace the first of three GPs that term. Acosta suffered a leg break but recovered to finish 5th in the championship as Rookie of the Year. Another season older and wiser, Acosta racked-up seven successes in 2023 (a total of 16 trophies in less than two years) to arrive within touching distance of his second title and achieved the distinction with the runner-up slot at the Sepang International Circuit and round eighteen of twenty (his 14th podium of the season).
Acosta is already confirmed for a MotoGP saddle in 2024 and no other rider has reached the premier class so quickly with so much success. He will be one of just two racers on the ’24 grid to have captured championships both in Moto3 and Moto2. #37 has competed in just over 50 Grands Prix. He has almost a 50% podium record (now 26 pieces of silverware) and 16 wins to his credit.
Aki Ajo’s Moto2 structure have helped two of the current Pierer Mobility Group MotoGP racers to Grand Prix victory and will add a third with Acosta’s 2024 promotion. They have also assisted four more presently active riders in MotoGP to the same status. The team has been lauded as Moto2 world champions in 2021, 2022 and now 2023. They are in a strong position for their third consecutive Moto2 Teams Championship.
