Brilliant Pedro Acosta reacts to out-pacing fellow KTMs in COTA practice
Pedro Acosta fifth-fastest in COT🔯A practice, other riders on the RC16 were 14th, 15th and 16th

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta again shone during practice for the Americas MotoGP on Friday.
The talented rookie was fifth-fastest, the only RC16 r🅠ider to earn a spot in Qualifying 2.
The factory KTM duo Brad Binder and Jack Miller were 14th an♒d 16th, and Acosta’s Tech3 GASGAS teammate Augusto Fernandez was 15th.
Acosta was quizzed afterwa🌌rds how he was able to deliver so much more performance than his more experie🍌nce stablemates.
“It’s not important for me,” he said.
“At the end, we understand that they are fast.
“They will be in Q2.
“I’m not focused on thꦜat. I’m focused on the work that we’re doing.
“We 💝know that our base is good. We must enjoy now when we can enjoyও it.
“And, on the days that are more difficu🗹lt, enjoy the learning process.”
There have beenꦯ few difficult days in Acosta’s MotoGP career so far.
Still only 19, last time out in Portimao he became the third-youngest podiu༒m finish ever.
Acosta is already ♉living up to the considerable hype that accompanied his promotion from Moto2, which he won last season.
He said after Frꦐiday practice⭕ at the Circuit of the Americas: “Super happy. Top five overall.
“It was not the easiest track for a rookie in MotoGP but we passed it🧸.
“It is sup🀅er important in MotoGP to pass straight into Q2, for the 💛races. The hard job is done.
“I am hౠappy because we made a step from the morning toꦉ the afternoon.
“We know, more or less, the steps to improve.
The stability. There is a lot of bounce on the track. It’s not the easiest. B💟ut we’ll have something.”
Acosta explained t𝔍he difficulties of the Texas track.
“It’s so lܫong. Turn 1 is left, right, left, right, it’s tricky…
“The hard braking with overspeed is tricky.
“Theไ balance… it’s not the same to hit a bump at 280kph and at 360𒊎kph.
“But we need to be calm.”
ꦐGASGAS Tech3 Team Owner Herve Poncharal added about his sensational new rider: “I don't know how to express my feel꧅ings.
“Of course, it's🔯 going better than we expected. 𝐆These first races have been a dream.
“The race in𓃲 Portugal was unbelievable: the pace, the strategy, the cool head he managed to have.
“When you are a rookie and are fighting with Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquezꦫ, you can often be fast, but often🥀 you can make a rookie mistake, and I touch wood when I say that.
“COTA is a very special track, and with the Moto2, 🔯he had a very good feeling, but with the M🀅otoGP, it's a different world.
“But [Friday] m♏orniᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚng, within a few laps, he was P1, but we'll see what we can expect.
“We ar🀅e in a dream, I don't know how t𒊎o explain it, it's not normal.
“He is fighting with great riders like Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, and Fabio Quartararo who have been here for a few seasons and raced here ♚in Austin.
“ These guys do things that can't be ex﷽plained, they are 🔯magic."

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, 🔯to🌄 football, to F1.