Pedro Acosta (Gas Gas RC 16) achieved his first podium in the MotoGP World Championship by finishing third in the Portuguese Grand Prix at the Portimao circuit, but, although he seemed happy, he pointed out that we must continue to work on the our feet on the ground.
“It’s true that we’ve improved a lot on the exits, although I’m still having a bit of trouble disengaging the front system. and I had to brake a little further forward and a little harder, and then Marc -Márquez- and Brad -Binder- passed me, but I was consistent, I tried to do the first laps calmly so that the rear tire did not heat up. , which happened in Qatar,” Acosta recalled.
“Being so many laps behind Pecco helped me learn a lot about what he did to his body.with the bike, there’s passion, and we’re moving forward little by little,” Acosta continued, admitting: “These races are a little more normal for us, because the sprints were a little boring for me in the beginning . . , especially with the bike set-up.”
“We need the bike to have a little more ground support. Also the mentality of what I’m used to doing these years, doing very long races, with a lot of fuel and tires, so I think we need to improve the sprints, but more or longer races,” said he, convinced, the ‘Shark’ of Puerto de Mazarrón.
“It went well, but in Las Americas (Austin) is another test, Jerez… In the end, until we get to Malaysia, which will be another circuit where we have tested, there is time and I think the Very good of handling the team because I know I’m not the easiest person on a race weekend, I get irritated easily, and they keep me on the right track,” Acosta said.
“Every time I wake up, I have 20 or 30 messages from technicians and engineers with things to see and improve, Then we leave the next day with clear things or priorities, which is often not easy. “I think they are doing a good job too,” he said.
He describes his overtaking of ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia as the best: “For sure. I have done many laps behind him, I have tried it once, he passed me again and I liked that, so I had to take it a little bit. , because I had too far to go in turn 1 and I didn’t get to turn 3 well prepared.
“I think, Because his feet were so big, he was a bit more stable than me.. When I tried it the first time, when I braked, I was sideways, so the whole overtaking was a bit chaotic,” he said.
“I was a bit more focused on making Turn 1 more rounded and faster so I could go into Turn 3 with a chance. I really enjoyed getting behind him because it gave me time to see a lot of things that I didn’t have time for to see before..” Acosta continued.
On Bagnaia’s piloting, he emphasized: “He plays with his body a lot, I think he sits further back on the bike than anyone else and he always plays with his feet a little bit, you can see that his feet are twisted in a little weird way, and I’m twisting my feet as well to see what happens. It’s true that he plays with the body and gets traction in the first meters of acceleration and I think that’s what I lack, because I’m probably further away from the bike than him, and putting that weight behind me. little, but this race has served a lot for that.”
Pedro Acosta does not think of success as his next goal. “In Las Americas we will have another question mark, we will see how the weekend goes. It will be a longer circuit,” he said.
“I think it will help us a little more in the sense of how our bike is made, but we have to keep our feet on the ground,” he stressed.
Source: La Verdad
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