168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Factory KTM rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta says he “enjoyed a lot” riding his 2025 MotoGP bike in testing but remains reser🐎ved in his predictions about🥃 facing Ducati this season.

The 20-year-old comes into his second year in the premier classꦦ with expectations on his shoulders to win races and possibly even fight for the title, after a strong rookie campaign in 2024.

Acosta ended pre-season testing strongly on the RC16, though where KTM fits into the pecking order overall is still unknown after a mixed🏅 winter for the brand.

Finishing 395 points beh𒁏ind Ducati in the constructors’ championship last year🌠, KTM appears to still be a step behind the Italian manufacturer coming into 2025.

Asked how he rates KTM’s chances of being able to fight D📖ucati this year, Acosta cautiously replied: “We hope. At the end, racing is completely diff🦂erent to testing.

“At the end, here, you have tꦏo be ready maybe when you don’t want to be ready because on Friday we have PR [Practice] an🏅d then qualifying is only 15 minutes.

“At the end, in a test you do what you wan💯t in the time you want. Racing is different, but we hope.”

He added: 𝄹“[I’m] pumped to start the season. I enjo🎐yed this winter a lot, I was enjoying it a lot on the bike.

“It’s true that now everything🍬 starts from zero and we have to🌊 see what is going on.

“But super happy to be back racing with a lot of ꦰpeople and a lot of colours around.”

KTM appeared tꦡo struggle with excessive tyre wear during the Buriram test on long runs, which is s𝔍omething Acosta admits is still a concern.

“Well,𓆏 it’s going to be a question mark,” he said.

“Now it’s much hotter than the week that we came and it’s 🧸not going to be easy, but ♍it was also not easy last year for this.

“So, we need to be calm and arrive and see how we ha꧂ve to manage the tyre.”

Mental work offers Pedro Acosta 2025 boost

Acosta revealed on Thursday in Thꦕailand that he has been working on his mental strength over the winter as he strives to find more consistency this🍸 season.

While Acosta’s speed was never in doubt in 2024, he allowed many st🔯rong results to go begging through errors.

Asked how he felt with a year of experien🌺ce coming into 2025, Acosta replied: “Much more calm.

“Maybe not many things changed this winter, but I was working a lot on my head, tr𝕴ying to calm the doubt that was inside.

“At the end, we see with [Jorge] Martin maybe he didn’t win ꦍmany races [last year] but he won the championship.

“Don’t get me wrong, you need to be on the podium e♕very week and winning races.

“But at the end, the consistency is what gave him the c🦋hamp🎃ionship.

“🐎It’s the thing we need to look for, it was the thing t♊hat I was missing last year.

“Counting the season that Iဣ had last🍨 year, I counted like 15 [crashes], was too much, but we need to be calm.

“[There] was many people around, especially one who was rea﷽lly helpingไ myself.

“Was really my back during the winter and also during the 🃏pre-season testing.

“I🌄 was quite pumped to have this person around. He really helped me to be calm and to know how to use the head. I’m quite happy about it.”

He refused to say who he had been working with.

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren