The MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix is proving to be one of the toughest of the season so far for the rookie. This Saturday, he could only manage an 11th place finish in the Sprint race at Assen, during which he faced some issues with his KTM.
The young rider from Red Bull GasGas Tech3 admitted that they didn’t expect things to be easy at the Dutch round: ‘It’s difficult to say something about the problem we were having during the Sprint. It’s not the easiest weekend; we knew from the beginning that wasn’t going to be one of the easiest ones for my calendar’.
Nevertheless, Acosta was pleased to have finished the race: ‘Anyway it was good to finish the race also with the problem we were having, and to catch for tomorrow. It’s true that the pace was better than we saw today. I’m calm, but I also have some question marks for tomorrow’.
Regarding the issue with the bike, the #31 explained: ‘It was something that was flying out of the bike during the race. The difficult thing to understand was why so early in the race, because it was immediatly in the first lap. Also considering that Assen is a so fast track that we need a lot of stability, it was not helping at all. For sure tomorrow this thing will not happen’.
Despite being far from the results he has shown capable of achieving, Acosta highlighted the positives: ‘We were much faster than yesterday, much more competitive. We had the pace from Brad [Binder], from [Fabio] Di Giannantonio, the guys who were in the group in front of me. But with this problem everything became quite unstable and was difficult also managing everything. I’m happy that we finished the race, and there is more information for tomorrow’.