Moto GB | GP Algarve 2021: Acosta: “I had a really bad time because of my height”

Pedro Acosta I cried like a cupcake. For the first time he left her. He was outspoken on DAZN and revealed unknown details.

euphoric state.

“It sounds powerful, doesn’t it? I spent the last full cycle crying. We finished what we started one day. Today, there were many things that came together: The first tests started here. Less than a year ago, I ran out of equipment. I can do this.” Just. I thank that’s what happened to Aki (Ajo), Red Bull and KTM because they trusted that kid who seemed to never arrive.”

sensations

“I didn’t feel anything. I just live the races. Good or bad, but I’m always learning. I think that, just as I deserved it, Foggia also deserved it, but he, at least, fell on our side.”

Honor return.

“I thought I finished a tough year. Already in the last races it was tough for me with weight and height. I was already going a little bit to the limit. I finished the races with pain, but we finished a year and in a week we started another.”

to me.

“In the end, it’s not normal to go to the World Cup and do it. It just happened like that because he had to come out, but it was hard.”

hard times.

“The second part of the season, when I actually got to the stretch in the summer, I know it cost me a lot, more than anything because of my height, because I finished the races so badly. It was tough, but we were there. For one thing or two we didn’t finish Another thing, but we were there. People, from the outside, don’t see it. You see, you’re there. It was thanks to everyone who supported me in that part of the tournament, who stopped believing in me.”

nerves.

“I was never nervous. In the end, if I didn’t win, I always learned. But, starting from the beginning, later on, it seemed like it was hard for me, no pilot likes it. But if someone had to believe in me it was me.” I didn’t have to let anyone put things I didn’t want in my head. That’s how it was in the end. To have a group as tight-knit as the one I have, coach, Baku (Marmol) comes with me to the races, my dad came here, who, in The end, with a very closed circuit at home, I think helped a lot. There were people from Red Bull Rookies Cup or FIM CEV Repsol who would never leave to trust me, even if they weren’t on my team and were in another tournament. I think these messages, one day After a day, it was noticeable to keep fighting.This is for everyone they are: for Aki, for KTM, who trusted a kid who was left without equipment and that few believed in, for Paco, for all the mechanics, even though there were tough races, like Silverst one of them He broke a lot of bikes this year, like at Le Mans, and they keep working there d keys”.

make a difference.

“Team. Less than a year ago I was left without a team. I had to find a place for myself next year and they gave me a family. They trusted me since I biked here. Life is what you want.”