Acosta amazing: “Super happy with the top-5, half the work is done”

The rookie continues to amaze

Seven Ducatis, two Aprilias and a KTM, or rather, a GasGas: Pedro Acosta he is the 'intruder' in the top-10 of drivers directly qualified for Q2 at the end of the American GP Tests. The debutant in MotoGP has pulled away by quite a bit from the official KTM riders Brad Binder and Jack Miller who will have to go through Q2. The Spanish driver was fast from the first free practice session and took advantage of Francesco Bagnaia's lead at the end of the afternoon session to secure direct access to Q2.

“I'm super happy – he declared to the microphones of motogp.com – the top-5 and Q2 means having already done half the work from a race perspective. It's not the easiest circuit for a MotoGP rookie, hitting a bump at 360 km/h isn't the same as doing it at 280, the bike moves a lot, but we know where we need to work, we've already made a good leap forward in terms of performance and confidence in the saddle between FP and Tests”.

Regarding the gap inflicted on the official KTM riders, Pedro Acosta continues to gloss over: “They are fast and will qualify for Q2. We don't have to look at these things, but just focus on the work we have to do inside our garage and stay calm.”