Official Programme # USGP 64
I ENJOYED RACING LIKE I WAS IN MY MOTO3 DAYS, WHEN I WAS MAKING MANY OVERTAKES.
“( In Thailand) I enjoyed racing like I was in my Moto3 days, when I was making many overtakes. I’ m in a really good moment, enjoying the battles. We have to keep it like this. Let’ s try to do something like Marco( Bezzecchi) and pull away so we’ re not making these messy battles.”
The situation couldn’ t be more different from a year ago, when Acosta really struggled in the first part of the season. KTM’ s RC16 wasn’ t at the level of the top machines, and he regularly made mistakes when trying to get on a par with his competitors.“ Last year, the problem was everywhere,” he said, speaking of the bike’ s improvements.“ It was not only at the end of the races. We know that even myself, I normally struggle to make a fast lap, and also in the first laps of the race. I’ m not super fast. But it looks like we improved the life of the tyre. Let’ s see how it will be at other tracks. But it looks like we are managing it all better and also the box is working better.”
“ We have to keep working in other areas because you can see that Aprilia and Ducati are still super fast in the time attack. We are not as bad as last year in time attacks, but there is still a way to go.”