Listen, I know I've been lucky in my time. I mean, I've had the amazing opportunity to ride shotgun with pro racers like Sara Price and Scott Speed. But at the same time, I also know that I'm not (and have never been) a racer; neither a pro, nor an amateur. And that's not changing any time soon.
But if you're a rookie racer and you're out there proving yourself to try to get to the top, is it more or less pressure to have the opportunity to race one of MotoGP's current best and brightest, in the form of the one and only Pedro Acosta? I mean, having some amount of racecraft under your belt is definitely preferable to having none, right? Right.
Red Bull, in all its Red Bullishness, set up a super interesting opportunity recently. It gathered together five members of the 2025 Red Bull Rookies Cup paddock, including recently-crowned champion Brian Uriarte, for a unique series of challenges. The five rookies would submit to a series of elimination tests, with the one racer left standing to be the one who would challenge Pedro Acosta out on track.
