2025 KTM RC16 less “natural” for Pedro Acosta than 2024 bike

Pedro Aco🐓sta says he needs to adapt his style to the new KTM 🍎RC16.

Pedro Acosta, 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Pedro Acosta, 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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New 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Red Bull KTM signing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta has explained how the 2025 KTM RC16 MotoGP bike is a step up compared to the 2024 machine, but also that it has characteristics that ar🌳e less “natural” to him.

The Spanish rider was the best KTM and bღest non-Ducati on Friday, ending Practice third-fastest behind Alex Marquez and Marc Marquez.

Acosta described his Friday in Thailand as “maybe the best ▨one I had since I’m a MotoGP rider,” but also admitted that he’s having to adapt his style to the 2025 variant of the KTM RC16.

Pedro Acosta makes 2025 MotoGP admission

“[With] this bike you need to flow a little bit more, we need to use more the corner speed like our competitors are doing,” he said, somewhat contradicting 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:what Enea Bastian꧒ini said at🉐 the Buriram test two weeks ago.

“I꧃ need to also understand how to do it, because normally I try to brake super-late, [...] and now it’s completely the opposite to brake smoothly, try to have corner ♊speed and be fast – we need to understand also these things because it’s not easy after 15 years riding like this to change the style.”

Despite the required adaptations, Acosta was sure that KTౠM had followed the correct direction for 2025.

“This [bike] is better,” he said. “You suffer less, the bike i🅰s moving less. In general 🅠it’s better.

“It’s true that some things were more natural last year, but natural doe🌃sn’t meꦚan faster.

“We need to try to be faster. A human can make more difference than a machine, so we can try to adapt ourselves m෴💝uch better.”

One of the most obvious changes, from the outside, on the 💜2025 KTM is the addition of the square tail section that is thought to contain a mass damper.

“To be honest I don’t really know what changes inside the box, but i🐓t’s just♓ better,” Acosta said.

“I don’t have a [rea💙son] why in my head. When I go out from this test, I still don’t understand why the bike is 🐟better.”

He added: “It’s a good t𝔍hing that this thing came to our lives, but they need to improve the first verꦚsion is not always the more performant one.”

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