{"id":628730,"date":"2026-04-24T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:22:08","slug":"tough-day-for-pedro-acosta-as-old-issues-return-at-spanish-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628730\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTough day\u201d for Pedro Acosta as old issues return at Spanish MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Pedro Acosta admitted to a \u201ctough day\u201d on Friday at the Spanish MotoGP, struggling with issues he faced in 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Spanish rider was on many occasions during Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> practice sessions caught by the TV broadcast cameras making mistakes under braking and going wide, struggling in particular \u2013 it seemed \u2013 with rear instability.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He explained afterwards that he felt issues he thought he\u2019d fixed over the winter had re-emerged at Jerez, and that it could be a track-specific issue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Acosta was not the only rider to complain of problems from previous years returning in Jerez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1093416\/1\/marco-bezzecchi-encountered-problems-we-had-past-spanish-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aprilia\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi made similar comments after Practice when speaking to Sky Sport Italy<\/a>, but while Bezzecchi finished the day third Acosta was only 15th and out of Q2.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA tough day for sure,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/red-bull-ktm-factory-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull KTM Factory Racing<\/a> rider reflected, speaking to MotoGP.com.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis can happen, but now is the time to understand what is going wrong; difficult to understand because we have the same problems as last year. For this, it\u2019s time to analyse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1040772\/pedro-acosta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Acosta<\/a> added: \u201cQuite strange because [braking stability] was the point that we improved during the winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s true that now we have to understand why only I have this feeling always when I come to this track since I signed to MotoGP. For this, it\u2019s a matter of time that we solve [it].\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Acosta also indicated that it is not a given that he will pass through Q1 to Q2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFirst of all, we will have to pass from Q1 to Q2,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis will make everything more difficult because it looks like a lot of fast guys are out of this top-10, knowing how tight is everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor this, this [making it into Q2] will be target number one, then it\u2019s just a matter to be as [far forwards] as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta admitted to a \u201ctough day\u201d on Friday at the Spanish MotoGP, struggling with issues he faced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,10734,10670,85],"class_list":["post-628730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-red-bull-ktm-factory-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628730","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=628730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}