Pedro Acosta had the opportunity to follow some opponents during the first day of MotoGP testing in Sepang – at a time when he is adapting to the various peculiarities of the premier class.
The Red Bull GasGas Tech3 rookie explained that his goal was essentially to understand the dynamics of riding behind other bikes and not to learn trajectories:
– I was following the riders I saw on the track, but they were also figuring it out, so I wasn’t behind any rider for that long. But anyway, it was good to be behind Jack [Miller], to be behind some Aprilias – just to understand how the wind affects you when you’re behind, because I hear a lot of things about it. That if you’re behind, then the slipstream cone comes to you and those things. But it was just to understand these things more than trajectories. Because I saw that between the other manufacturers and GasGas [KTM], the trajectories are very different and the way they ride is very different. So, I was just focusing on myself.
