Acosta: “Could I beat Marquez with more engine revs? Hard to say”

Garone di Acosta

Pedro Acosta returned to the podium after a stunning race. At Aragon, the KTM rider finished second behind Marc Marquez, once again winning ‘the race of the humans,’ a statistic that doesn’t count and leaves Acosta with zero wins in MotoGP, a statistic that cries out for revenge and which we hope Pedro will widely disprove when he gets on the official Ducati.

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For several laps, Acosta even gave the impression that he could challenge Marc Marquez, but in the end, the nine-time world champion managed to pull away. “If I could have beaten Marquez with more engine revs? Hard to say – Acosta said to Sky commenting on the fact that from Misano the KTM engine will regain the revs removed for safety reasons – we have to be happy to have climbed the podium once again.”

“We improved a lot from Friday to Sunday – Acosta added – especially on braking, which is my strong point and which we completely lacked on Friday, especially in Turn 12. I’m not thinking about the November tests with Ducati, I’m giving 100% just like the team and we’ll see what we can do from now until the end of the season.”

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Acosta also commented on the overtake on Bezzecchi taking advantage of the fight between the Aprilia rider and Marquez: “It was my moment to stay as close as possible to Marc, it was nice“.

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