MotoGP | Acosta: “At the first corner some gave way to those on the outside”

The GasGas Tech3 driver started tenth on the grid, but in the first meters of the Sprint he had already lost some positions in what is probably one of the only weaknesses of the young Spanish rookie: the art of starting.

“We saved our cards at the last moment,” summarized Pedro Acosta after Saturday’s short race at Le Mans. “I don’t think the start was bad, but when I turned left to enter the first turn (3 actually), there was so much traffic that some people gave way to those on the outside,” he said. explained.

“I think the riders in front of me were too conservative with the riders on the outside at Turn 2, because I was passed by Jack Miller, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Marc Marquez, all on the outside. The truth is that I found myself in a situation where I couldn’t go forward or backward, I was bottled up and I was stuck there,” he explained. “I had Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio in front of me and all we needed was for them to tell the others to pass to the outside. If I think about how they usually run, I think they could have pushed a little more in that phase.”

Once past the first corners, when the positions stabilized, Acosta was able to start breathing.

“In the race, once I managed to get rid of riders like Di Giannantonio and those who were going slower (Miller, but he doesn’t name him), we were making the same times as Maverick Vinales. Even with Aleix Espargaro we were very close before the rescue (he risked falling to the ground, but saved himself at the last minute), we had almost caught him, so overall the match went better than the result indicates”, was the assessment of the Spanish rookie.

“At the beginning everything was complicated, but then the pace was good. It was a race in which we could have fought for the podium. The start was terrible, but the race was good”, was the summary of the shark Mazarron.