“Pissed off” Acosta chasing solutions after Thai MotoGP crash

Pedro Acosta was visibly indignant after a irritating outing within the Thailand Grand Prix, saying he and KTM want to grasp why his bike suffered with tyre unloading throughout the race.

Acosta made these feedback after he crashed at Flip 1 on the beginning of the fourth lap, dropping a possible high 10 end at Buriram. He was in a position to remount on the RC16 and full the race, however he wound up in nineteenth place, solely forward of Aprilia stand-in Lorenzo Savadori within the listing of categorised finishers.

The 20-year-old defined that the rear of his bike immediately unloaded whereas he was following the opposite manufacturing unit Aprilia of Marco Bezzecchi, inflicting him to lose the entrance and hit the deck.

Loading and unloading seek advice from the bodily forces appearing on the tyre throughout cornering, braking and acceleration.

The Spaniard stated he’s in search of solutions as to why the 2025-spec KTM is extra liable to rear unloading points than its predecessor, as the one approach round the issue is to brake extra gently earlier than nook entry.

“I am pissed off, for positive. There are loads of issues that we do not perceive that escape us,” he stated. “We have to perceive as a result of this yr it appears to be like prefer it’s a lot simpler to unload the rear.

“After which I unloaded the rear behind Bezzecchi, I used to be getting vast and sliding an excessive amount of after which I misplaced the entrance. [It was] fairly [a] regular crash however we have to perceive the place this unloading is coming from.

“If you unload the rear, immediately you slide and it comes again with the entrance.

“It’s a mix of issues. We have to perceive why one factor is working, why one other one not, to grasp these items.

“The one method to not unload the rear is to brake softer, however it doesn’t actually work for the lap instances for me.”

KTM suffered from tyre longevity points throughout testing at Buriram and the issue seemingly carried over to the race weekend, with the Austrian marque ending no larger than eighth with its quartet of bikes run between the manufacturing unit squad and the Tech3 satellite tv for pc staff.

Acosta stated he wished to finish the race after his crash to collect as a lot information as attainable on the RC16 and concluded that the tyre degradation on his bike was “not regular”.

“Because of this, I stayed within the race,” he stated. “The tempo was not unhealthy in any respect. I misplaced 40 seconds after I crashed.

“I hope they will test one thing within the information as a result of it was vital to see how the tyres have been as a result of all of the weekend we have been in a dramatic scenario [with tyres]. We have to perceive additionally why now we have this degradation, it was not regular.”

Pictures from Thailand GP – Race