Brilliant Pedro Acosta reacts to out-pacing fellow KTMs in COTA practice
Pedro Acosta fifth-fasteꩵst in COTA practice, other riders on the RC16 were 14th, 15th and 16th

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta again shone during practice for the Americas MotoGP on Friday.
The talented rookie was fifth-fastest, the only RC16 ri♉der to earn a spot in Qualifying 2.
The factory K♋TM duo Brad Binder and Jack Miller were 14th and 16th, and Aco💞sta’s Tech3 GASGAS teammate Augusto Fernandez was 15th.
Acosta was quizzed afterwards how he was able to d▨eliver so much mor♊e performance than his more experience stablemates.
“It’s not important for me,” he said.
“At the end, we understand that they are fast.
“They will be in Q2.
“I’m not focused on🎀 that. I’m focused on the work that we’re doing.
“We know that o🐬ur base is 🔯good. We must enjoy now when we can enjoy it.
“And, on the days that are more difficult, enjoy the learnin🌳g process.”
There have been few difficul൲t days in Acosta’s MotoGP career so far.
Still🍸 on💖ly 19, last time out in Portimao he became the third-youngest podium finish ever.
Acosta is already🌺 living up to the considerable hyღpe that accompanied his promotion from Moto2, which he won last season.
He said after Friday practice at th😼e Circuit of the Americas: “Super happy. Top five overall.
“It was not the easiest tr💎ack for a rookie in MotoGP but we passed 🥃it.
“It is super important in MotoGP to paܫss straight into Q2, for the races. The hard job is done.
“I am happy because we made a step from thꦑe morning to the afternoo꧙n.
“We know, more or less, the steps to improve.
The stabil♌ity. There is a lot of bounce on the track. It’s not the easiest. But we’ll have something.”
Acosta explained the diff𒉰iculties of the Texas track.
“It’s so𒆙 long. Turn 1 is left, right, left, right, it’s tricky…
“The hard braking with overspeed is tricky.
“The balance… it’s not the same to hit a 🌜bump at 280kph and at 360kph.
“But we need to be calm.”
GASGAS Tech3 Team Owner ಌHerve Poncharal a꧙dded about his sensational new rider: “I don't know how to express my feelings.
“Of course, it's going better than we expected. These first races have been a🍰 dream.
“The rac🅷e in Portugal was unbelievable: the pace, the strategy, the cool head he managed to have.
“When you are a rookie and are fighting with Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, you can often be fas༒t, but o🐷ften you can make a rookie mistake, and I touch wood when I say that.
“COTA is a very special 🔥track, and with the Moto2, he🌱 had a very good feeling, but with the MotoGP, it's a different world.
“But ꦛ[Friday] morning, within a few laps, he was P1, but we'll see what we can expect.
“We are in a dream, I 𓆏don't know how to explain it, it's not normal.
𓂃“He is fighting with great riders like Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, and Fabio Quartararo who have been here for a few seasons and raced here in Austin.
“ These guys do things that can't be explained, they areཧ magic."

James was a sports journalis🔜t at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sꦆports, to football, to F1.