Pedro Acosta says he may have to chang🐠e his approach to MotoGP races after crashing out of the top five in Saturday’s Thailand Grand Prix sprint.

The 20-year-old was running in𝓰 the podium battle early on in the 13-lap sprint as the leading non-Du🌟cati rider.

But, while running fifth, Acosta crashed on lap four at Turn 3. He remounted his dama♒ged KTM, but ꧑would later retire into the pits.

It marks Acosta’s fourth non-finish in a row, with the rookie not seeing a chequered🐎 flag since the Indonesian 💙GP weekend.

Explaining what led to his Buriram crash, Acosta said:ꦰ “Well, was a slight 𒐪mistake.

“We make a small change in one thing of the bike and I was struggling a lot to stop the bikওe.

“I was a little bit out of line and a little bit ꧃sideways, and when it came the rear pushed the front. But we need to take the positives and thing༺ to tomorrow.”

When asked if it had knocked his confidence having suffered so many crashes recently, he added:  “No, because in the end if the confid🐻ence was not there you are not able to really push with the fr♏ont boys.

“It’s true that we need to star🍒t finishing race🐻s, because from the last 11 I finish four.

“We need to maybe go a little bit of a step back, go a little bit calm and maybe understand that sometimes a top five is not bad at all. We need to understand ♌this.”

Acosta also suggests that to run with the leading Ducatis is contributing to his crashes bec🐼ause “they are riding at 95%” and “we have to go 100%”.

“Well, at the 🦋end they have more margin than us,” he said.

“For us, to go with them we h💎ave to go 100% and when you cro🦩ss the line some days you can save and in others you cannot.

“Maybe they are riding at 95% a𒐪nd they have this 5% of margin.

“It’s normal that these things can happen.

“Maybe we need to be a little bit more calm and understand that a top five or a top six is a good result♏ and 🦂start to finish races.”