KTM’s Pedro Acosta has hailed Pecco Bagnaia as a “gentleman” afterꦛ the pair battled hard over the final podium place in the early laps of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix.

The 21-year-old started alongside the double world ဣchampion on the grid and followed him through into fourth at the first corner.

The pair battled hard over third across laps two and four, with Ducati’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia ultimately getting the upper hand.

Bagnaia darted away to secure third at the chequered flag, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta regi🦹stered his best dry result of the season in fourth🌜 on the factory KTM.

Acosta admits “it was a battle that, sooner or latest, I would lose” but praised Bagnaia’s race craft and the clea🥃nliness of his moves🎐.

“To be honest, the only strategy that I had was t✤o stop him, but the problem is that one lap I was close to hitting him from behind in Turn 1 and I wen𒊎t wide – [after] that I rode my race,” he said.

“Because he was faster, sooner or lat𒁏er he was going to pass me and go away because they were 0.2 seconds faster every lap than me.

“It was a battle that, s♍ooner or later, I would lose. But, anyway, I enjoyed the first five lꦿaps.

“It was unbelievabl🎐e. Also, Pecco is a gentleman, he’s quite clea🧸n in the track.

“I think it was a goo🦂d battle. Even, I don’t know, I𒈔 was forcing him to go a little bit wide, he was forcing in the final corner to go a little bit wide. I really enjoyed with him.”

Bagnaia doesn’t feel his battle with Acosta held him up in trying to pressure 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez for 🐽second, while noting that his bike helped him to outdrag the KTM on the back stra🃏ight.

“I don’t want to say that I lost time fighting ღwith Pedro because at the start, as ꦺsoon as I was in front of him I started to catch back Alex and I was already there in the first laps,” Bagnaia said.

“He was braking super-hard, he🌟 was super-strong on the brakes with the hard [compound] front tyre🏅.

“I was just trying to improve every lap, b🀅ut I was losing in acceleration because the stability in♈ some accelerations was a bit lower.

“So, I was just trying to remain focused on Alex, I didn’t want to lose the slipstream of Alex, so every time he overtook me I was trying to s🌞tay as clo🐎se as possible to try and overtake him back.

“It’s true that my Ducati was helping me in the back straight when I overtook him back, but💯 he was super strong.

“When I was finally in front I was able to follow Alex, and he was struggling a bit more🔯.”