“We drivers must be more natural, like the old ones, Schwantz, Stoner or Pedrosa”

Pedro ‘Tiburón’ Acosta (Gas Gas RC 16) is happy with the attention he is generating this season because he assures that “in the end it’s good for the sponsors.”

“It is good above all for Murcia, for the companies there, almost all of them support me. and I think it’s good for everybody.”

“Because I’ve been here for four years… the first year they said I would join Honda as Marc Márquez’s teammate. and this is what happens every year, this is what the press tries to do, this is what gives the game to MotoGP and I think it is important,” he said of his prominent role at the start of the championship.

Acosta also wanted to highlight the figure of one of the legendary drivers of the category, Kevin Schwantz. “We need more people like him, I’m not talking about driving or competition, sometimes we need more drivers with that DNA. Once when I was young I went to Jerez, Ángel Nieto and Fonsi Nieto were there, Kevin was also there and he was the only one who signed autographs for the fans for four hours. “We need more people like that, that’s the true DNA of MotoGP.”

“I don’t have a clear idea, no one can be like him, it would be too easy. I think we have to be more natural, I don’t have many ideas, We have to be like the drivers from a few years ago, with a character like Casey Stoner or Dani Pedrosa, not everyone is the same way. But it is what it is and I wouldn’t change a thing,” he said.

Regarding his outstanding current ‘role’, Acosta believes that “if a problem has a solution, it is not a problem.. And if there’s no solution, you have to live with it and that’s it, so I hope there’s no solution, because if it’s not that means things have gone wrong. “I think you have to figure out how to live with it and move forward.”

After Portugal he said: “I think I finished fourth, because in the end I wasn’t fighting for that podium.”, I didn’t fight to finish third, but like I said, finishing third or fourth I’m just as happy. ‘That I would have wanted to get on the podium fighting with those in front and fighting with Maverick? Of course!’, but in the end that’s what happened, you have to be there to have those options, so I’m happy to have that first podium, but also eager to really fight for a podium.”

“We have to be calm, because here Jack -Miller- had a good weekend last yeartaking the crash out of the race, and you have to be calm and continue to learn from them,” Acosta continued, remembering that this weekend we will have to see “how the potholes are, how the new asphalt and what wind we will do. there is, what looks like he’s going to be strong.”

“The bike has improved and I think we can achieve better results than in the past, but we have to make steps little by little, especially us, see if we can improve the sprint race, in the first laps and have a little more. confidence. new tires, a little more at the beginning, and push up little by little,” Acosta highlighted.

“In the end we have to be realistic, once you are out of the top seven, you are far awayso I think we have to improve the official training a lot, to at least enter that second row, to be close, because excluding Portimao, which I didn’t lose much at the start, only two positions, I already lost a lot of time at first”, recognizes the ‘Shark’ of Puerto de Mazarrón.

“It doesn’t seem like it, but those two seconds are lost, and those two seconds are hard to get back, because half a second is lost, one, you press more or less and get in the car. but there comes a time that no. how much your first one is fast “It goes just as fast as you and you can’t. If we improve the officials and the first lap, I think we can be competitive,” Acosta continued explaining.