{"id":241852,"date":"2025-10-26T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:02:09","slug":"pedro-acosta-from-pissed-off-to-malaysian-motogp-podium-remove-all-the-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241852\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta from \u201cpissed off\u201d to Malaysian MotoGP podium: \u201cRemove all the controls\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

With KTM <\/a>struggling badly with tyre wear in recent events, including Saturday\u2019s Sprint, Pedro Acosta<\/a> looked to have little chance of making the same soft rear \u00a0last double the distance in Sunday\u2019s Malaysian MotoGP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

14th in warm-up underlined a bleak outlook for Acosta, but it also prompted a radical change of strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was super pissed off after the warm-up, because we touched something in the bike and I had no power out of these last two corners. I was losing a lot,\u201d Acosta explained.<\/p>\n

Rather than increasing the electronics, to try and save the tyre but killing power, Acosta asked to go in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to the boys, ‘Look, we cannot be worse than that. For this, let’s go completely in the other direction. And if we f**k up, it\u2019s my fault\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor this, remove all the controls, and we go racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was difficult again to battle for the victory, but we were much closer than we expected. For this, I’m quite happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the grand prix began, Acosta quickly challenged Francesco Bagnaia for second behind Alex Marquez, only for the Ducati rider to retaliate each time.<\/p>\n

But as the laps went on, it was Bagnaia who began to fade, allowing the KTM star to finally make a move stick on lap 13 of 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Pecco, it’s always nice to battle,\u201d Acosta said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were losing a lot [to Alex Marquez] when I overtook Pecco in Turn 9 and he passed me back early on the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut anyway, for how hard the race was yesterday, I think we managed it in the best way today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Alex <\/p>\n

Alex Marquez, Pedro Acosta, 2025 Malaysian MotoGP<\/p>\n

After clearing Bagnaia, who later stopped with a tyre issue, Acosta briefly dared to dream of chasing down race leader Marquez.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlex showed a little bit more pace than Pecco and me in the beginning, but later I was able to more or less match his lap times,\u201d Acosta said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was dreaming at one stage to catch him. But it’s true that he was quite far already.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this, with three to go, I said \u2018okay, now it’s the moment just to be safe.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Acosta took the chequered flag 2.7s behind the Gresini Ducati race winner for his third grand prix runner-up finish of the season.<\/p>\n

The next best KTM was Tech3\u2019s Enea Bastianini in seventh (+15.3s).<\/p>\n

Acosta remains fifth in the world championship but is now 26 points behind Bagnaia with two rounds to go.<\/p>\n

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