Pedro Acosta says Ducati and Aprilia have a \u201csuper stable bike\u201d while KTM \u201cis still up and down\u201d as the 2025 MotoGP season nears its conclusion.<\/p>\n
Despite some issues with its GP25 factory bike this year, Ducati<\/a> has continued to dominate the landscape in MotoGP.<\/p>\n The Italian marque has scored 13 victories with its GP25 between dominant world champion Marc Marquez<\/a> and factory team-mate Pecco Bagnaia<\/a>, while Gresini duo Alex Marquez<\/a> and Fermin Aldeguer<\/a> have three victories between them on the GP24.<\/p>\n As such, Ducati has a 338-point lead in a manufacturers\u2019 championship it has already won with four rounds remaining in 2025.<\/p>\n Only Aprilia and Honda have been able to deny Ducati from winning in 2025 (though only on two occasions), while KTM\u2019s wait for a first victory since 2022 goes on.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Asked during the Indonesian Grand Prix weekend why Ducati has maintained its advantage, Acosta explained: \u201cThey were already one step in front of everyone, and they are still keeping that.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, Aprilia improved a lot. KTM, from the summer break, improved. You only have to see the race of Honda from [Japan] with [Joan] Mir; fuck me, how this guy passed me!<\/p>\n \u201cYou saw [Franco] Morbidelli was going with good pace [in Japan].<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing with Ducati is they are super consistent. It doesn\u2019t matter who, it doesn’t matter which team, doesn\u2019t matter which bike. They are flying.<\/p>\n \u201cThe one that is struggling with one thing, is struggling in every track. The ones who are better in other things are better in all the tracks.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a super stable bike, let\u2019s say. Now it looks like Aprilia is also.<\/p>\n \u201cKTM is still up and down, not knowing what to expect in one track or another one.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we have to keep going. We did a really good step from summer break to hear. For this, fingers crossed to find something more to the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n KTM has made several visits to the podium in the second half of this season, with the latest a second for Acosta at Mandalika.<\/p>\n With Aprilia\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi crashing out on the opening lap of that grand prix in a tangle with Marc Marquez, KTM is now just 28 points behind the Italian marque in the battle for second in the manufacturers\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta says Ducati and Aprilia have a \u201csuper stable bike\u201d while KTM \u201cis still up and down\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18009,64,63,17197,6399,806,805,803,804,10734,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aprilia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ducati","12":"tag-ktm","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-pedro-acosta","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}