KTM’s Pedro Acosta has hailed Pecco Bagnaia as a “gentleman” after the pair battled hard over the final 𝓡podium place in the early laps of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix.

The 21-year-old started alongside the double world champion on the grid and followed him through i⛄nto fourth at the first corner.

The pair battled hard over third across laps two and four, with Ducati’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pecco Bagnaia ultimately getting the upper hand.

Bagnaia darted away to secure third at the chequered flag, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta regi🦋stered his best dry result of the season in fou🔥rth on the factory KTM.

Acosta admits “it was a battle that, sooner or latest, I would lose” 🦋but praised Bagnaia’s race craft and the cleanliness of his moves.

“To b🌼e honest, the only strategy that I had was to stop him, but the problem is that one lap I was close to hiꦛtting him from behind in Turn 1 and I went wide – [after] that I rode my race,” he said.

“Because he was faster, sooner or later he wa♈s going to pass me and go away because they were 0.2 seconds faster every lap than me.

“It ꦏwas a battle that, sooner or later, I would lose. But, anyway, I enjoyed the first five laps.

“It was unbelievable. Also, Pecco is a 🐓gentleman, he’s quite clean in the track.

“I t♐hink it was a good battle. Even, I don’t know, I was forcing him to go a little bit wide, he was forcing in the final corner to go a little bit wide. I really enjoyed with 𝔍him.”

Bagnaia doesn’t feel his battle with Acosta held him up in trying to pressure 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez for second, while noting that his bᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚike helped him to outdrag the KTM on the back straight.

“I don’t want to s🍸ay that I lost time fighting with Pedro because at the start, as soon as I was in front of him I started to catch back Ale🌃x and I was already there in the first laps,” Bagnaia said.

“He was braking super-hard, he was super-strong on the brakes with the h🐷ard [compound] front✨ tyre.

“I was just trying to improve every lap, but I was losing in acceleration because the🤪 stability in some accelerations was a bit lower.

“So, I w𒁃as just trying to remain focused on Alex, I didn’t want to lose the slipstream of Alex, so every time he overtook me I was trying to stay as close as possible to trౠy and overtake him back.

“It’s true that my Ducati was helping me in the back s𓆉traight when I overtook him back, but he was super strong.

“When I was finally in front I w𒈔as able to follow Alex, and ꧂he was struggling a bit more.”