“Pissed off” Acosta chasing answers af...

Pedro Acosta was visibly indignant after a irritating outing within the Thailand Grand Prix, saying he and KTM want to know why his bike suffered with tyre unloading in the course of the race.

Acosta made these feedback after he crashed at Flip 1 on the beginning of the fourth lap, shedding a probable high 10 end at Buriram. He was capable of remount on the RC16 and full the race, however he wound up in nineteenth place, solely forward of Aprilia stand-in Lorenzo Savadori within the checklist of categorised finishers.

The 20-year-old defined that the rear of his bike out of the blue unloaded whereas he was following the opposite manufacturing facility Aprilia of Marco Bezzecchi, inflicting him to lose the entrance and hit the deck.

Loading and unloading check with the bodily forces appearing on the tyre throughout cornering, braking and acceleration.

The Spaniard stated he’s in search of solutions as to why the 2025-spec KTM is extra vulnerable to rear unloading points than its predecessor, as the one approach round the issue is to brake extra gently earlier than nook entry.

“I am pissed off, for positive. There are numerous issues that we do not perceive that escape us,” he stated. “We have to perceive as a result of this 12 months it seems prefer it’s a lot simpler to unload the rear.

“After which I unloaded the rear behind Bezzecchi, I used to be getting vast and sliding an excessive amount of after which I misplaced the entrance. [It was] fairly [a] regular crash however we have to perceive the place this unloading is coming from.

“Once you unload the rear, out of the blue you slide and it comes again with the entrance.

“It’s a mix of issues. We have to perceive why one factor is working, why one other one not, to know these items.

“The one technique to not unload the rear is to brake softer, but it surely doesn’t actually work for the lap occasions for me.”

KTM suffered from tyre longevity points throughout testing at Buriram and the issue seemingly carried over to the race weekend, with the Austrian marque ending no increased than eighth with its quartet of bikes run between the manufacturing facility squad and the Tech3 satellite tv for pc group.

Acosta stated he needed to finish the race after his crash to assemble as a lot information as doable on the RC16 and concluded that the tyre degradation on his bike was “not regular”.

“Because of this, I stayed within the race,” he stated. “The tempo was not unhealthy in any respect. I misplaced 40 seconds once I crashed.

“I hope they’ll test one thing within the information as a result of it was necessary to see how the tyres have been as a result of all of the weekend we have been in a dramatic scenario [with tyres]. We have to perceive additionally why we have now this degradation, it was not regular.”

Photographs from Thailand GP – Race