Spain’s Pedro Acosta is confident that he can build on his brilliant rookie MotoGP World Championship season last year and challenge for the 2025 title with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing teammate Brad Binder as he makes the step up to being a full-time factory rider.
Acosta finished sixth in the 2024 standings, just two points behind South African Binder, after five impressive podium places, one pole position and two fastest laps for Red Bull GasGas Tech3 saw him crowned Rookie of the Year to add to his 2021 Moto3 world title and 2023 Moto2 world title.
This time around, the 20-year-old from Mazarrón believes that he can break through and claim his maiden MotoGP victory as a full-time factory rider for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing with talented Italian Enea Bastianini, 27, and fellow Spaniard Maverick Viñales, 30, also announced as the 2025 Red Bull KTM Tech3 riders.
Four Red Bull liveried KTMs return to the MotoGP field for the first time since 2020 with the 2025 KTM RC16s out to make a big impression for the manufacturer’s ninth year in the blue-riband series, which sees the riders tackle 22 rounds in 18 countries starting with the Thai GP on March 2.
KTM Motorsports Director Pit Beirer revealed, “With Brad, Pedro, Enea and Maverick as well as all the experience and knowledge in the pitboxes there is a lot of positivity and adrenaline to get started. This season could be massive for us, and I hope it will be.”
“Super proud – it is a dream come true. We need to remember that I was racing in orange since I was 14 in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup,” Acosta said. “It was not easy to see myself racing in red for one full year, but I learned a lot from last season and now I feel a lot more prepared to race again in orange.”
