This week, the final official pre-season MotoGP tests are taking place in Losail. For Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GasGas Tech3/KTM), it’s the ultimate chance to adapt to the premier class without the pressure of a competition weekend.
The Spanish rider confirmed that he started these tests with the same electronics setup he used in Malaysia, at a time when he’s beginning to understand the bike better: ‘We started with the same base from Sepang and then I started to manage. At the end we were trying some things in the traction control, a new traction control let’s say. We are improving the bike in all areas, but now everything is becoming more natural. I was able to think more. Because the problem here is that sometimes when you give more gas you are not faster because you start to make spinning, wheeling, etc., and you are not fast enough. Now I’m able to manage and start to think in these things. We are on the way’.
According to Acosta, without the shakedown unlike what happened in Sepang, the task was more difficult, although he acknowledges that he has more experience which helps: ‘Well, on one hand was difficult in the way I need more laps than the others to understand how to ride, how are the lines and these things. On the other hand I have more experience than in Sepang and now I enter in the box and I know more or less what I need to change on the bike. I think we are coming, slowly, but safely’.