T💯ech3 GASGAS boss Nicolas Goyon described the 2024 Austrian🥂 Grand Prix as the team’s “most difficult weekend of the season”.

While the sister factory KTM stable showed well at the Red Bull Ring, with Brad Binder fifth a✅nd Jack Miller running in sixth when he crashed, Pedro Acosta and Augusto Fernandez struggled outside of the top 10.

Acosta endured a bruising weekend as his Friday was blighted by crashes, with the Spaniard꧑ then failing to get out of Q1 and 🌺qualifying 14th.

In the grand prix Acosta could d⛄o no more than 13th, taking the chequered flag 33.736s away fℱrom the win, while Fernandez was a few seconds further behind in 15th.

“Difficult to say something,” Acosta said.

𝓡“We🦹 were having some problems that we were not expecting, and to be honest I was not really knowing where it was arriving from.

“Any🦩way, let’꧂s see what we can do to improve. Now the test team has two days in Misano and then arrives Aragon with a new surface for everyone. Let’s see where we can arrive.”

Goyon added: “Prob꧙ably the most difficult weekend of the season for us and we knew i💖t could be tricky when we were not able to make Q2.

“Thinking about the top five beco♕mes much tougher.

“Pedro did not have the spe𒉰ed he wanted at this GP and we have to focus on our weak points at the moment to get strong again.

“Augusto showed some fighting spirit and w😼as in P14 until the last corner. We’ll take it positively and build on it for the future.”

Fernandez says rear tyre 𒉰managem♔ent made his a race of “survival” but was happy to have found some pace for the grand prix having struggled for much of the weekend.

“A tough one. You have to manage the rear tyre very well here and it al𒆙most becomes like a ‘survival’ race,” he said.

“In the end I’m happy with the point. We had been struggling all weekend and we were still qui𝓡te far but I’m happy with the pace we made at least.

“I think w𒀰e did our maximum possi൩ble today. Let’s move on and build some confidence for the rest of the season.”