Gold & Goose / Red Bull Content Pool

If you?ve won a motorcycle race at Grand Prix level, you?ve got something special. If you?ve won a world title, well that?s something seriously special. But every now and then, someone young upstart comes along that seems to have something else. Something extra special. These child prodigies have, in the past, had names like Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez. And they?ve gone from being child prodigies, to legends of the sport. And I think, in 17-year-old Spaniard and Moto3 rookie Pedro Acosta, we?ve got another one on our hands.

Before the opening round of the 2021 season, I?d never heard the name Pedro Acosta. That?s despite considering myself a keen bike racing fan. And when he started the first race of the season from pit-lane, I didn?t take a massive amount of notice. What was he going to do from there" Well the Red Bull KTM Ajo rider only put it on the podium, didn?t he" That?s all he did from there. It was an unbelievable performance.
Gold & Goose / Red Bull Content Pool

When he won a week later and took the championship lead, I?d well and truly learnt his name. But it wasn?t until he?d won the next two rounds (Portimão, Jerez) that I really started to take notice.

And not just because of his results. Yes, they?re massively impressive, but getting a good result in Moto3 is a bit of a lottery; you need a bit of luck on your side. I know you make your own luck, to some extent, but he could quite...