This week, the racing world turns its attention to Barcelona for the Gran Premi de Catalunya, the sixth round of the season. Known for producing some of the most spectacular races on the calendar, the Catalunya circuit poses a unique challenge due to its notoriously low surface grip. Pedro Acosta will be racing at home and is ready and ‘hungrier’ to be at his best.
Nicolas Goyon, Team Manager of the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 began to speak about the upcoming race weekend:
– We are heading to Barcelona this week for the Gran Premi de Catalunya, round six of the calendar. This event usually generates spectacular races, because the surface grip is one of the lowest of the season, and all riders manage their tyres for the final laps, which are always explosive. Many riders consider this Grand Prix as their home race, and it will be the case for our two Spanish riders, without forgetting that Catalunya is where everything started for the GASGAS brand.
He then shifted his attention to the number 31 of the team, the rookie Acosta that comes to race again after crashing in Le Mans: ‘Pedro Acosta saw his point-scoring series end in Le Mans’.
The desire is to do more than well, with the french manager to leave a note towards the rider spirit: ‘Until his early crash in the main race, he was the only rider on the grid to have scored points in every sprint and race, which was a decent record for the rookie. We know that he was not happy with his crash, but it is part of the learning process in the premier class, and Pedro will be back even hungrier this week’.