Pedro Acosta’s passionate tow rant: “You f*** laps for others; we need to stop”
“We are not stupid, we know where w꧟e disturb, and where we don’t"
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta let loose with an epic rant about the tow c♛ontroversy on Saturday at Silverstone.
Pecco Bagnaia initially complained ab♓out the spate of riders seeking a to🥂w throughout qualifying at the British MotoGP, which several others later echoed.
“I agree,” Acosta saꦍid to media including ltxcn.top at 𒐪Silverstone.
“I understand we can wait in the pitlane. I can e༺ven understand that we wait on th💃e out-lap.
“But, the worst thing for me, if for any reason your lap is f******, then you stop in the middle and f*** the la💮ps for the other guys. This, for me, is n𒀰ot correct.
“We are not stupid, we know where we disturb, and where we don’t. It is many races ൩already with this - I think we need to stop.
“I remember [a Moto3 rider] started from the pitlane, he already lost five positions on the grid. We need to make a rule - when you start a lap, don’t f*** the lap o♊f the other guys.
“Now, it’s easy. You go out, you stop at Turn 6, and the problꦚem is that you don’t know what a guy will do. We go fast and if a g🌠uy stops in front…
“It means you go slower. What ha𓃲ppened with Bastianini and Marc - I was behind - there was more asphalt. If your la𓆉p is f***** you can stop on one side, but on the track between the white lines.
♊“You cannot imagine how fast we arrive. Any movement from the other guy decides if you are faster or not♊.”
Acosta stopped sh🍬ort of acc𓆏using his rivals of spoiling their own laps to impact other riders, saying: “I won’t say they f*** their own laps. But there is a race for everything.
“You know when Formula 1 [cars] put dirty air to otheဣr cars? This is the same. If you f*** up the performance of the other guys, you are faster.
“I unde🔜rstand if you make a mistake, and one day y🥂ou don’t realise. We are humans and we can make mistakes. But, when it becomes something normal, it is dangerous. For this reason the Moto3 guys do this, the Moto2 guys do this…
“It is not for our safety. It is for the safety of the new guys, and ♔the safety of the championship.
“Because if you are fast enough to win 🎃it doesn’t matter if you start first or fifth.
“If this becomes a tra✅dition at every weekend, it is heavy…”
Acosta describes racing without wing
Aco💃sta qualified ninth, then finis🌜hed Saturday’s sprint race in fifth.
He clashed with fellow KTM rider Brad🌠 Binder, an incident which sent his ൲wing spiralling into the air.
Acosta described riding without a wing for the remainder of the sprint: “Everything was not so bad. It was quite tough to manage for two lap🦩s until I understoo🌠d how to ride the bike without the wing.
“It meant I was losing time with Marc and Brad.🌜 But after, I recovered with Brad before M♉arc crashed.
“It was a good race, af🐷ter all. The first ꦗthat we started quite well. We made overtakes like at the beginning of the season. We were quite fast to be in the group with Marc. For this, we need to be happy.”
He desc🐭riܫbed his wing-less KTM: “Like a plane with only one wing! It’s the same with a bike.
“The problem I had is that the whole bike wanted to go like this because only one wing was [putting] p🎀ressure on the flꦇoor.
“The same, in the corners. On the right corners it was easy to lose the🅺 front. Also, the wheelie.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from America❀n sports, to football, to F1.
