Rookie Pedro Acosta has until Germany in July to replace Marc Marquez as MotoGP's youngest-ever race winner.
campaign and, unsurprisingly, also played down his chances of breaking Marc Marquez’s record as the youngest premier-class race winner.
Marquez took his first victory in only his second MotoGP race, at COTA 2013, at the age of 20 years and 63 days. “Well, I don't think so,” Acosta said of achieving the feat. “At the end, it's a different MotoGP era. “When you are a super talent, you take a bike and you are fast. And many rookies in the past have taken podiums and victories and so that means he can break my record, of course.The last rookie MotoGP winner, of any age, was Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin, who took victory in his sixth Grand Prix start of the 2021 season.But Acosta’s feet remain firmly on the ground.
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