Pedro Acosta: “Maybe the most important day of our season…”

Pedro Acosta calls Jerez MotoGP test "maybe the most import🦹ant day" of KTM’s 🎉season as grip and vibration issues persist.

Pedro Acosta, 2025 Americas MotoGP at COTA
Pedro Acosta, 2025 Americas MotoGP at COTA

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta has pinpointed the end-of-month MotoGP test at Jerez as “maybe the most important day o🍒f our season”.

Scheduled for Monday, 28 April, the day after the Spanish Grand Prix, the one-day ꦐouting will be the first official testing opportunity since pre-season wrapped up in B🎀uriram.

“It is maybe the most important day of our season,” Acosta said of the Jere🃏z test. “We have t🍬o try many things.”

Like all KTM riders, Acosta has endured a disappointing start to the 202ܫ5 season💎.

The young Spaniard, promoted to the factory team on the back of a stellar rookie campaign featuring five Grand Prix podiums, has only scored 16 points so far this se🎀ason, for 13th in the world championship.

That compares with 54-poi🐬nts and fourth in the wꦗorld championship after the opening three rounds of his rookie season at Tech3.

Despite strong qualifying results - 7th, 5th and 4th respectively - Acosta and his RC16 have struggled to convert one-lapღ speed into race performance.

“Talking about myself, we are muc🅺h more competitive than last year in qualifying. Good,” he said.

“But then we ꦫgo to the Sprint races and the grip suddenly is like [gone].

“Wh🗹en we have grip, it's easy to be competitive… But it's difficult to understand why there is this drop in performance between Q2 and the S⛎print race.”

Pedro Acosta, 2025 Americas MotoGP at COTA
Pedro Acosta, 2025 Americas MotoGP at COTA

Vibration Woes Continue for KTM 

A key issue for Aco𓆏sta is persistent rea🌠r-wheel vibration.

“Always more or less when I talk about problems, I am talking about v🦄ibraඣtions," he said. "It's a topic every time I enter the box. We need to find a solution because it's already one year like this.”

The Spaniard made a distinction between typical 'chatter', which can often be seen on TV, and the unsettling vibration he’s experi൲encing.

“For me, chatter is𒁏 when the rear or the front wheel is jumping, like the save of Quar꧅tararo in Q1 [at COTA]. 

“Vibration I feel when I touch the♈ throttle and the rear wheel is like [shaking]. It's not jumpingꦦ, but it's making [life] difficult. 

"And it's like a snowball, the vibrati🍌on of the whole bike becomes bigger, bigger, bigger.”

The large 'salad box' at the back of the KTM this season,🧔 perhaps housing a mass damper, is assumed to be an attempt to soothe the vibra🃏tions.

Factory team-mate Brad Binder is currently thꦗe top KTM rider, in eleventh in the world championship, with Tech3 riders Enea Bastꦍianini 12th and Maverick Vinales 17th.

The final grand prix before the Jerez weekend is next weekend's Qatar round, where Acosta thrilled on his Mo🌳toGP debut one year ago and KTM took a pair of runner-up finishes🎐 with Binder.

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