The result of today’s Sprint did not leave Pedro Acosta particularly happy, with him stating that from year to year the feeling of not liking to lose is increasingly growing, and riders like Marc Márquez or Jorge Martín, experienced and deep connoisseurs of MotoGP tricks, ended up knowing how to manage the race better.
Asked by the press, after the race, if he was happy with the competitiveness shown, the Spanish rider revealed… not so much: ‘No, not really. Today we were so close, so close and yet so far at the same time. Anyway, I don’t like to lose and each year it gets worse. Anyway, we saw good things and it was the first day we were truly fast in qualifying and the first day we took a real step forward and were in a podium position for much of the race. In the end, Marc and Jorge were smarter than me. They really know how to read a race, push at certain moments to overtake me and everything else, but we have to learn and with these world-class riders I will become stronger.’
The Spanish Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 rider then explained in what sense it is still difficult for him to manage the weekend in the premier class, especially on Saturdays and with the Sprint race.
– It’s not easy to spend 15 years of my life doing long-distance races and reaching a Saturday where it’s just qualifiers. Apart from FP2, the qualifying sessions and then adding the Sprint race, all of this… Normally I think that in a race you can’t push for 20 laps, you have to manage, etc, everything we know, but if we think about a Sprint which is half the distance: ten very open laps until the end and that’s it. Maybe you can do almost the entire race at 95% and push to 100% in three laps, that’s the important thing in the race and that’s something that Marc and Jorge have in mind, and they were smarter than me.
