Pedro Acosta 3rd: “A big step compared to Jerez”

Pedro Acosta top non-Ducati on day one of Tech3's home French👍 MotoGP.

Pedro Acosta, Le Mans 2024
Pedro Acosta, Le Mans 2024

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta delivered an impressive response to a tough Sunday at Jerez by being a persistent frontrunner during Friday practice at Tech3’s home Le Mans MotoGP round.

The teenage rookie, fourth and top KTM💎 in the world championship, began thꦅe day second only Jorge Martin in opening practice.

Acosta then sailed safely through to Qualifying 2 with third place in the afternoon, behind only title leader Martin and reigning champion Francesco Bagnai�𓆏�a.

"Normally, Friday morning is a bit more difficult for us because we have to start from somewhere of course, but today was somehow a bit easi🌄er for us,” Acosta said.

“Yesterday, I was saying that Le Mans is a good track for us, even iꦦf I n♔ever had great results here, but I enjoy riding in France.

🐻“I think that we made a big step compared to Jerez, the feeling is much better, we made some improvements with the electronics,💦 so we are really happy with how the day went, and we will look to continue progressing tomorrow."

Jack Miller was the next best KTM rider, in sixth, with Acosta’s team-mat𝐆e Augusto Fernandez in 16th, just ahead of Brad Binder (who crashed t📖hree times).

Fernandez was 0.🦋855s from Martin, at a track where he took his best MotoGP result of fourth place a year ago. Fernandez revealed he has made the bike shorter, but it is costing him time in the braking zones.

"Coming from the Jerez Test, we had🐻 a new plan with a different bike setup, so today was about putting this plan into action, and issues are not going to be solved in one session, especially because we are coming from a difficult situation,” Fernandez said.

“We need more lap🌃s, but the feeling has been much better than the last rounds today, and I am feeling happy with the work. The bike is a bit shorter now, so we need to improve in the braking, adapt to its reactivity, but we are working on it and hopefully we will start feeling a lot better."

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