Two crashes in two races didn’t dampen Pedro Acosta’s weekend in Motegi, as he considers his performance in the Japanese GP to have been his best yet in MotoGP.
The GASGAS Tech3 rider began by analyzing his day, focusing on the positives, as he explained to Motosan: ‘Today was going to be a good day, so we have to keep the positives. This weekend was, by far, the most competitive ever, the base we’re getting into the top five, which I think is important, and the improvements that are coming, so, well, we have to be positive’.
Regarding the crash, on the third lap of the long race on Sunday, the Spaniard looked at it like this: ‘Well, a stupid thing. I was already on Pecco’s tail, I saw that from turn 6 to turn 10 he was really strong. So my strategy was the same as yesterday, stay close in the last sector, do the whole turn 1 with him and try to overtake him in turn 5. It was a shame, because I started to prepare a bit too much for the chicane and when I touched the throttle, he stretched the corner a bit more and that’s what ‘killed’ me. But I think we showed again that we have the pace to be in the fight’.
The rookie of the year then explained that this would probably happen, even with more experience: ‘I think this would have happened to me, in my second year of Moto2, with experience, it would have happened the same way. Because in the end I was preparing something for five corners from now. Okay, it’s a shame that it happened today because it was a good day. We accept it and move on, because better things will come’.