Acosta, what did you do? “My mistake. I looked at the dashboard and lost concentration”

Admission of guilt

A race literally dominated thrown away and gifted to his pursuers with the most incredible mistake: this time, in Austria, Pedro Acosta really messed up. The Murcian KTM rider was the absolute master of the Austrian Sprint and was about to give his team an important home victory: three laps from the end however the ‘shark’ drowned in a glass of water, entering absurdly hard at the chicane of turn 2A-B and inevitably losing control of his bike.

“Totally my mistake – Acosta honestly admitted after the race to the microphones of Sky Sport MotoGP – let’s try not to think about it anymore, to focus on tomorrow and try to be as fast as we were today. I think it was without a doubt my strongest race“. Acosta then explained the reasons for his mistake: “Inattention? Yes – he acknowledged – I was looking for the warnings on the dashboard, I lost a bit of concentration, the braking point and then I went wide“.

“We will try again tomorrow – continued the very disappointed Murcian talent – in the end I was really riding well, I wasn’t making mistakes. Tomorrow we will have the potential to do a good race. The team? In the end there wasn’t much to say to them: it’s totally my fault, tomorrow we will try to redeem ourselves”. Certainly, the first career win in MotoGP would be no small consolation. Meanwhile, for now only bitterness prevails.

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