A setup change cost Pedro Acosta the shot at a better result in the Malaysian MotoGP Sprint, finishing ninth in the end after a baꩵttle with Jack Miller.

Acosta💫 and Miller fought for almost the whole race and were ultimately separated📖 by 0.2 seconds on the line, in favour of the Australian.

“Jack [Miller] is always difficult to pass, don’t get me wrong,” Acosta said, before adding that changeܫs made to his RC16 for the S♍print had made it more difficult to overtake.

“At the end, it’s super-difficult to pass people with🍎 these changes that we make, because every time I wa𒀰s passing everyone I was running wide.

“Today the pace in the ꦐFP2 was quite okay, and it’s pཧainful to see that for a decision like this we lost a possibility, but the good thing is that also I take the last four laps to understand why we were having problems, why not, in what situation and all these things to keep a lot of info.

“For this I finish the race because today was difficult, but we ⛄need to be happy to see these pro🍒blems and know how to come back.”

Explaining more his issues,💝 Acosta said that he was losing out the most in braking.

“Alone it [brak༒ing] was quite okay, but when I was behind Jack it was unstoppable,” he said.

“I was close to hitting him like 20 times, then I passed him like eight times, then he passed me back again because I was running wide; then when I was not wanting pass him I started ♏to not [be able to] stop the bike and go wide and try to pass outside.

“It was quite diff༒icult, but anyway we need to be posit💦ive.”