This week, the MotoGP’s final pre-season official tests are taking place in Losail. For Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GasGas Tech3/KTM), it is the ultimate chance to adapt to the premier class without the pressure of a competition weekend.
The Spanish rider confirmed that he started these tests with the same electronics he ended with in Malaysia, at a time when he is starting to understand the bike better: ‘We started with the same Sepang base and then I started to manage. In the end, we were testing some things in traction control, a new traction control, so to speak. We are improving the bike in all areas, but now everything is becoming more natural. I was able to think more. Because the problem here is that sometimes when you accelerate more, you are not faster because you start to slide, do wheelies, etc., and you are not fast enough. Now I am able to manage and start thinking about these things. We are on the right track‘.
According to Acosta, without the shakedown unlike what happened in Sepang, the task was more difficult, although he acknowledges that he has more experience that helps: ‘Well, on one hand it was difficult in the sense that I need more laps than the others to understand how to ride, how the trajectories are, and these things. On the other hand, I have more experience than in Sepang and now I enter the garage and I know more or less what I need to change on the bike. I believe we are slowly getting there‘.
