Pedro Acosta<\/a> said after the Valencia race.<\/p>\n\u201cBut it\u2019s missing a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI came here with a dream to try to fight for the championship and this is not what we got at the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s true that we get a really good result, really good consistency, but it\u2019s not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acosta feels he grew as a rider this year, but is clear that results must improve in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cI learnt a lot, I get much better as a rider, more consistency, I know what is my place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now I want more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think now I\u2019m giving everything on my part, I\u2019m not crashing a lot, I\u2019m not losing time, I\u2019m not making many mistakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite difficult to manage everything because you cannot make a race perfectly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, even making a race perfectly, our limit is the podium and even not [always] for this. We have to check it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what he would score himself out of 10 for the year, Acosta responded: \u201cFive\u201d.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cWe improved, but we fight for nothing. I said clear when I signed for KTM that I was wanting to fight for the championship and for what did we fight? For nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lack of grip costs the podium<\/p>\n
Speaking about the race itself, Acosta explained that his start \u2013 which looked worse than the one he made in the Sprint \u2013 was not as bad as it seemed regarding his own getaway, but ride height device issues cost him time early on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a mess also at the beginning of the race that I didn\u2019t unlock the front device, then \u2013 I don\u2019t know why \u2013 I un-booked the rear one and then I […] tried to disengage everything \u2013 it was a bit a shame,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyway, we tried our best, we know that every time the other manufacturers are improving and we struggle a lot to be on-point, let\u2019s say, on Sunday\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regarding the start, he added: \u201cJust Di Giannantonio was better than yesterday. If you check, I arrived fourth to the braking point, yesterday I arrived third. His start was not that good like this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then, for example, I don\u2019t know why the bike dropped the rear device in turn two, then I have to disengage in turn four, then Raul [Fernandez] passed me, and it was a bit of a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Later, the problem was about grip, and the podium position he held after passing Alex Marquez was lost to Di Giannantonio.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is that we start already with our grip level lower than our competitors, I would say,\u201d the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing<\/a> rider explained.<\/p>\n\u201cThen, at the end, the rest is more or less the same, we have to manage maybe more the tyres but it\u2019s not bad at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the problem [is that] we struggle a lot to be fast at the beginning of the races because we miss a lot of rear grip.\u201d<\/p>\n
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