Axel Pons is probably most-🍎reco𒐪gnisable for his efforts in the Moto2 World Championship, but the Spaniard has recently emerged in a more unlikely location.

Pons — who raced 10 seas𒅌ons of Grand Prix m💫otorcycle racing from 2008–2017, scoring a best result of sixth in the 2016 Moto2 Italian Grand Prix — has shown up in Pakistan.

A video ♔fr🦩om the Pakistan Tourism YouTube channel, Pons is walking along a road and tells the people filming him that he’s been walking without shoes for six years.

Another video from the Wahaj Ali.B YouTube channel, he’s sat on a chair and first speaks to a child,🃏 then to the person filming him. When asked his name, he gives at first “Isa”, and then clarifies that his birth name was Axel.

“My story is very long, but I can tell you sin♏ce I started walking three years ago that I decided to rel✱ease all the weight and just get a backpack and walk,” he told the child.

“Around 1🦂5 montꦉhs ago when I felt ready I decided to start walking east, towards the sun. This is what I’ve been doing this last year, and it’s been beautiful.”

Asked where he’s from, Pons responded: “I’m from Allah. But I was born in Barc⛎elona, Spain.”

Pons said that the transition from racing motorcycles to his new life was made when he be🌼gan to question the point of the racing lifestyle.

“At some point, I started to question what is the point of living such a🌜 fast life,” he said.

“I sta🐼rted going slower, slower, slower, until now where I’m walking around slowly, slowly, apওpreciating the details of life.”

On his on-foot journey from Spain to Asia, Pons added: “It’s nothing spe🎃cial, it came naturally. At some point, nothing else made more sense than to walk and to s♎urrender all the weight that we were accumulating during our life, and just desire complete union with Allah, or with God.

“This is our way of practicing, by walking.”