First corner “mess” blamed for Pedro Acosta’s difficult Thai MotoGP sprint
KTM rider was a distant sixth in first race of 🌌2ﷺ025

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta says he missed his top five “target” in the 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix sprint after getting caught up in a “mess” at the 𒀰firꦅst corner.
The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory KTM rider has been quick all winter on t🧸he RC16 and came into the opening round of the year as podium hopeful.
But hindered by yellow flags in qualifying, Acost🔯a was forced to start from seventh and found himself unable to disengage his front start device off the line in the sprint when Trackhouse rider Ai Ogura cut in front of him.
Acosta lost ground as a result, withꦦ rocketing tyre temperatures while sitting in the pack casting him 11.7s away from race winner Marc Marquez in sixth.
“Well, at the end we made a mess in the first corner because Ogura was coming to me, I was in the curve normally, and I was not ꦑable to disengage the front device and all the mess started,” he said.
“When you are losing positions with this heat and how quickly the temper♈ature went up and the pressure went up, it became a bit different.
“Anyway, our target was 🔯top five, try to find this consistency there. After that it’s done.
“We h💃ave to be happy. After the mess that was the first corner we were ꦇnot bad at all.”
Acosta says his issues with controlling the temperature in his front tyre made it harder to ride because the bike reacted differently at eve🙈r corner.
“[The heat affects things] a lot, because at the end you see the top five and they didn’t have an overtake in the whol൲e race,” he adde𓂃d.
“At the end, the problem now the differences are so small, it makes a🧸 big chaﷺnge.
“At the moment you overheat the tyre and you can’t lower it, it’s ꦯa disaster.
“At the end, everyone was catching 𓆏their pace and more or less the lap time was similar.
“Everyone who had big amounts of bikes in front, like Fabio [Quartararo], like Jack [Miller], like myself, were the only ones riding in 1m31s because at the m🍰oment the front tyre is coo🀅ked it’s completely done.
“For example, Fa💙bio went wide at Turn 3🍬 and I passed him. Then I went wide at Turn 4 and he passed me.
“Then he goes wide again in Turn 8 an🍷d pass him again, then I go wide in Turn 12.
“It’s quite difficult to plan how to ride because not every corner is the same sensation. It’s quite difficult but it’s something that we have✅ to manage.”
Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren
