Brℱad Binder has been warned that his status as KTM’s star rider is under thre📖at by Pedro Acosta.

The scintillating riding style, fea⛄rless overtaking💦 and solid results of rookie rider Acosta has taken MotoGP by storm this year.

The teenager already seems a shoo-in to progress from Tech3 GASGAS to the factory team in 2025 but he could𒁏 even eclipse Binder as the manufacturer’s top m🌼an.

Broadcaster Simon Crafar analysed in Jerez: “Pedro hasn’t been doing those amazing things, like I’ve seen beꦡfore from a young rider coming into🅺 MotoGP, because they have a teammate who can show them the set-up.

“Pedro is doing it alone. It’s truly amazing.

“That’s why Brad Binder must really feel the pressure to step up. I listened to the debrief from COTA - it sounds like the team wenಌt the wrong way on the first day, he had a broken toe. He said it was very hard to brake.

ཧ“We can forgive him for COTA but not for much longer. That’s why the pressure is on both those KTM teammates.”

Jack Appleyard replied: “Brad, for so long, has been the main rider. The key 🍬man at KTM.

“Suddenly there is a power struggle. It’s a power struꩲgꦛgle, if things continue, that’s he’s starting to lose.”

Crafar said: “How importa♓nt is i♏t for a manufacturer to find a young superstar?

“Y♒oung riders come in as a blank pagꦆe and absorb everything. It is so refreshing.

“W🍸e need more ෴of these riders, the new blood. They raise the level.”

Binder’s seat, at least, is not under threat because he is contracted꧃ to KTM beyond the start of next year.

His teammate in the factory t🌄eam, Jack Miller, is not so fortunate.

“Jack✅? I still hope that we are yet to see the best of Jack this year,” Crafar said.

“It’s too late, I’d have liked to have seꦇen it in the first or second race. I think it’s there. Let’s hope.

“Brad? He is going to come out swinging.”

Acosta is fourth in the MotoGP standings aft𓆉er four rounds.

He has claimed 🐲two podiums, and become the third-youngest rider to ea💎rn a MotoGP podium.

Acosta is 10 points ahe♔ad of Binder, and𒐪 47 clear of Miller.

The brilliant young Spaniard is already on his way to becoming KTM’s prized asset - it is expected that the🐟 manufacturer have an option in their contract with him to extend their partnership into 2025 at least, while promoting him into their factory team.