Brilliant Pedro Acosta reacts to out-pacing fellow KTMs in COTA practice
Pedro Acosta fifth-fastest in COTA practice, other riders on the RC16 were 14th, 15tౠh and 16th

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta again shone during practice for the Americas MotoGP on Friday.
The talented rookie was fifth-fastest, the o💮nly RC♛16 rider to earn a spot in Qualifying 2.
The factory KTM duo Brad Binder and Jack Miller were 14th an🥃d 16th, and Acosta’s Tech3 GASGAS t🌠eammate Augusto Fernandez was 15th.
Acosta was quꦏizzed af🌃terwards how he was able to deliver so much more performance than his more experience stablemates.
“It’s not important for me,” he said.
“At the end, we understand that they are fast.
“They will be in Q2.
“I’m not focused onꩵ that. I’m focused on the work that we’re doi🀅ng.
“We know t🥀hat our base is good. We must enjoy now when we can enjoy it.
“And, on the days that are more difficult✨, enjoy the learning process.”
There have been few difficult days in Acosta’s MotoGP career so faജr.
Still🐎 only 19, last time out in Portimao he became the third-youngest podium finish ever.
Acosta is already living up to the considerable hype that accompanied his promotion from Moto2, which he won l𝐆ast season.
He said after Friday practꩵice at the Circ🔜uit of the Americas: “Super happy. Top five overall.
“ꦆIt was not the easiest track for a rookie in MoꦗtoGP but we passed it.
“It i𒁏s super important in MotoGP to pass straight into Q2, for the races. The hard job is done.
“I am happy because we ma🍸de a step from the morning to the afternoon.
“We know, more or less, the steps to improve.
T🐠he stability. There is a lot of bounce on the track. It’s not the easiest. But we’ll have something.”
Acosta explained the diffi💞culties of the Texas track.
“It’s so long. Turn 1 is left, right, left, r🅘ight, it’s trick🐈y…
“The hard braking with overspeed is tricky.
“The balance… it’s not the same to h𒁏it a bump at 280kph and at 360kph.
“But we need to be calm.”
GASGAS Tech3 Team Owner Herve Poncharal added about his sensational newꦉ rider: “I don't know how to express my feelings.
“Of course, it's🍌 going bette🤡r than we expected. These first races have been a dream.
“The race in Port𓆉ugal was unbeꦏlievable: the pace, the strategy, the cool head he managed to have.
“When you are a rookie and are fig🌜hting with Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, you can oft🌌en be fast, but often you can make a rookie mistake, and I touch wood when I say that.
“COTA is a very special track, and with the Moto2, he had a very go🥂od feeling, but with the MotoGP, it's a different world.
“But [Friday] morning, within a few🌳 laps, he was P1, but we'llꦯ see what we can expect.
“We are in a dream, I don't know how to expཧlain 🌸it, it's not normal.
“He is fighting with great riders like Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, and Fabio Quart🐠a💮raro who have been here for a few seasons and raced here in Austin.
“ These guys do thi༒ngs that can't be explained, they ar🍸e magic."

James was a sports journalist 𓄧at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.