The Spanish GP at Jerez proved to be considered one of KTM’s finest weekends of the 2023 marketing campaign, with Brad Binder profitable the dash and ending second in the principle race forward of team-mate Jack Miller.
With Tech3 GasGas rookie Acosta coming to the 2024 Jerez spherical off the again of successive podium finishes, he and the remainder of the KTM secure had been anticipated to indicate robust.
Nevertheless, sixth was one of the best a KTM rider might handle within the grand prix – courtesy of Binder – whereas Acosta was tenth.
Talking after the Spanish GP, Acosta believes the model got here to Jerez “with too many illusions” and it could be served nicely to regulate expectations going ahead.
“Typically, I am speaking concerning the model, not simply me, I believe we got here with too many expectations to do very nicely right here,” he started.
“And you must perceive that we’re not the one ones bettering, different manufacturers are bettering as nicely.
“I believe [with] this extreme expectation [it] will likely be good for us this 12 months to take it straightforward on the races that went nicely final 12 months and see what occurs from the start.
“All of us got here in with too many illusions.”
Pedro Acosta, Crimson Bull GASGAS Tech3
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He added, when pressed on folks’s expectations of the 19-year-old: “I do not care about folks’s expectations, I way back stopped listening to outdoors noise and the phrases of individuals like [Jorge] Lorenzo, who clearly learn about bikes.
“However right here no one is aware of what is going on to occur till you cross the end line.
“You can too be within the lead for all of the laps of a race and fall or be overtaken on the final nook, so predictions are of little use.
“I do not care about that side. I am speaking concerning the expectations of the model, final 12 months’s outcomes had been a weekend that KTM had by no means seen earlier than and that led us, all of us, to think about a grand prix [in Spain] with too excessive expectations.
“I believe this actuality test for the model will permit us to place our ft on the bottom for the Misano weekend, for instance, the place final 12 months Binder and Pedrosa did very nicely and this 12 months we will likely be extra relaxed.”
Regardless of the tough weekend for the KTM model, Acosta nonetheless sits fourth within the championship and is just 23 factors off chief Jorge Martin.