Brilliant Pedro Acosta reacts to out-pacing fellow KTMs in COTA practice

Pe♔dro Acosta fifth-fastest in COTA practice, other riders on the RC16 were 14th, 15th and 16th

Pedro Acosta, MotoGP, Grand Prix of the Americas, 12 April
Pedro Acosta, MotoGP, Grand Prix of the Americas, 12 April

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 only RC16 rider to earn a spot 💧in Qualifying 2.

The factory KTM duo Brad Binder and Jack Miller were 14th and 16th, and Acosta’s Tech3 GASG🏅AS teammate Augusto Fernandez was 15th.

Acosta was quizzed afterwards how he was able to deli🥀ver 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 o🐻n that. I’m focused on the work that we’re doing.

“W﷽e know that our base is good. We must enjoy now when we ca🌳n enjoy it.

“And, on the days that are more difficult, enjoy th�𓆏�e learning process.”

There have been few difficult days in Aco𝓰sta’s Moto💦GP career so far.

Still only 19, last tim♒e out in Portimao he became the third-youngest podium finish ever.

Acosta is already living up to the considerable hype that accompanied his p🔯romotion from ⛎Moto2, which he won last season.

He said after Friday p☂ractice at the Circꩵuit of the Americas: “Super happy. Top five overall.

“It was not the easies♒t track for a rookie in MotoGP buಞt we passed it.

“It is super⭕ important in MotoGP to pass straight into Q2, for the races. The hard job is done.

“I am happy ಌbecause we made a step fr꧋om the morning to the afternoon.

“We know, more or less, the steps to improve.

The stabilit𒀰y. There is a lot of bounce on the track. It’s not the easiest. But we’ll have something.”

A▨costa explained t🍬he difficulties of the Texas track.

“It’s so long. Turಞn 1 is left, right, left, right, it’s tricky…

“The hard braking with overspeed is tricky.

“The balance… it’s not the same to hit a bump at 280kph🐓 and at 360kph.

“But we need to be calm.”

GASGAS Tech3 Team Owner Herve Poncharal added about his sensational new🎃 rider: “I don't know how to expಞress my feelings.

“Of course, it's going 🧸better than we expected. These first races have been a dream.

“The race in Portugal was unbelievable: the pace, the strategy, the c🅰ool head he managed to have.

“When you are a rookie and are fighting with Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, you ca🦩n often be fas꧂t, 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 good ♈feeling, but with the MotoGP, it's a different world.

“But [Friday🎶] morning, within a few laps, he was P1, but we'll𝓰 see what we can expect.

“Weꦍ are in a dream, I don't knoܫw how to explain it, it's not normal.

“He is fighting with great rider𝓀s like Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, and Fabio Quartararo who have been here for a few seasons and raced ℱhere in Austin.

“ These guys do things that can't ♕be explained, they are magic."

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