Pedro Acosta believes he had the pace to fight for victory at Le Mans, however, the sensational MotoGP rookie has ཧplayed down expectations heading into this weekend.

Acosta has been fast at every circuit so far in 20⛎24 but Le Mans was perhaps his firs✅t real shot at claiming a maiden MotoGP win.

Acosta crashed when trying to put his KTM machine between Fabio Di Giannantoꦆnio and Aleix Espargaro, nearly wiping out both riders in the process.

But when asked if he believes the sa♏me potential can be shown𝓀 this weekend in Catalunya, Acosta gave a cautious response.

The Spaniard said: “Well le🍌t’s see. Again it is a new track for us on a MotoGP bike. We need to start from zero.

“It’s true that KTM were working like hell this wee🌸k to avoid the problems we had in Le Mans.

“On𒅌 Sunday we made a really big step but here we need to start froꦆm zero.

“We kn🦩ow that this track is quite tricky with the grip and so we need to understand how our bike is working. Last season it was not very easy and Brad [Binder] could not finish the race.”

🎐Every circuit he goes to is his first experience at that track on a MotoGP bike.

However, that hasn’t fazed the reigning Moto2 world champion, who is aiming to improve his starts this weekend, which he feels is his weakest area at present.&nbs🦩p;

“Like when I went to Malaysia for the first time, li𒁃ke when I went to Qatar, ꦆin the end it is not going to be easy,” added Acosta.

“Let’s try to make a good qualifying and let’s try to make a good star✨t which is maybe our worst area at the momen꧙t.

“The other ri♓ders arrive as fast as you and this🦄 is going to be the case [again].”