Pedro Acosta: Vinales, Rins had crazy corner speed, I said ‘I can do that too!’
The reigning Moto2 champion, who was earlier seen drifting his GASGAS-liveried machine into the final corner, joked he was e𓄧ventually caught out ꦐafter trying to mimic the corner speed of Maverick Vinales and Alex Rins.
“The crash came because I made a mistake in Turn 1, then I had a movement between 1 and 2 and I was too much on the left t🍨o achieve the correct [line],” Acosta explained.
“But to be honest, I saw Maverick and Rins having c൲🌜razy corner speed, and I said, ‘I can do that too!’
“It was totally my fault. Butও anyway, i𓆏t was good also to understand what I cannot do.”
Acosta finished his debut in 18th place on the timesheets, ju♒st ahead of new Yamaha rider Rins and only 1.223s fro🐼m leader Vinales (Aprilia).
“It was bet🏅ter than my dream,” Acosta said of his performance. “Because we have to be realistic. I cannot arrive here and say,ಌ 'I will destroy the lap record'.
“It's true I am super happy to be all ꧟day between +1 and 1.7s, it was super nice to be in this area. I think that the level is not so different from the first to the last [rider in MotoGP], and small things make big gaps.
“You can see also on my last flying lap, I lost everything in the l𒅌ast sector. We have to understand how to༺ ride and how and when to use some tools [features of the bike]. But anyway, it was a really good day.”
The Spanish teꦺenager was also satisfied to see that his riding style was already comparable with the other🧸 RC16 riders.
“We compared myself to all the KTM riders, between Augusto and a🥂ll these things. It's true that it's not so di𒁏fferent. It becomes quite normal.
“It's not a Moto2 bღike, tha🍬t is maybe a mix [racing chassis, production engine], this is a real racing bike.
“But anyway, it was good. The important thing is the team was really ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚfocused to [give me] a really good fiﷺrst impression about the bike.”
Acosta will be workinꦦg with ex-Pol Espargaro crew chief Paul Trevathan at Tech3 next season.
“My crew chief Paul has been here since the [KTM💎 MotoGP] project started with Pol. Before I went out he said, "If you want to change someth🐬ing, tell me, I am here for you". And I said, "No, I am here for you!"
“He knows how to help me un🍒derstand how to ride, he knows perfectly that you need to prepare the bike for this. I'm quite happy to be in this group of people. They are amazing.”
Acosta’s next MotoGP outing will be at 𓆉Sepang in February.
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