After racing the front wing fender on his KTM for the first time at the penultimate MotoGP round in Malaysia, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta revealed an interesting side-effect.

While the main purpꦑose of the extra aero - first seen in pre-season testing at ꧃the same track in February - is to provide more, or at least a different application of downforce, it also cools the front tyre.

After fighting from 13th to fifth place in Malaysia, Acosta, who fell more than any other rider with 28๊ accidents this year, explained that he raced thꩲe mini-wing at Sepang to try and avoid further front-end spills.

“[It puts] different forces onto the tyre,” he sa🐓id. “We have many problems with𒉰 locking and front closing like we saw in Misano, Japan, Indonesia.

“I crashed also from losing the front and then a highside in Phillip Island. Thailand also. Thi🎃s [wing] helps to make the forces in🐈 another way.”

But he added: “Also🅘, it's maybe taking a bit of temperature out of the tyre, for this it’s quite okay.”

While cooling the front tyre was a welcome bon🌠us in the sweltering heat of Malaysia, especially when following other bikes closely in dirty air, it could also be a hazard at colder events.

“It’s going to be difficult because we cannot use it in all the tracks,” A💞costa said, citing the French Grand Prix as an example.

“We have tracks 🎀like Le Mans where we ✤have a lot of wheelie, but it's cold.

“At the ♍moment,🍸 everything is positive for this [tyre cooling], let's see if any negatives arrive.”

Th꧂e Barcelona season finale provided a good chan🦩ce to test whether the tyre cooling might prove problematic.

Despite the autumn temperatures, below 20 degrees even in the afternoon, Acosta kept the fender wing fitted⛄ for the Sprint aꦐnd Grand Prix, clearly feeling the benefits continued to outweigh any negatives.

Unfortunately for Acosta, he went on to lose fifth in the world championship to future factory KTM team-mate꧑ Brad Binder on the very final lap of the season, due to brakingꦗ issues.

Bi♊nder, Jack Miller and Augusto Fernandez did not race with the fender wing in Barcelona. However, Acosta’s preference was clear by sticking with it during his Red Bull KTM debut at the Tuesday test.