Pedro Acosta has vowed \u201cwe\u2019ll see each other in the next race\u201d after VR46 MotoGP rider Fabio Di Giannantonio overtook him in the French Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The pair swapped positions on the final lap, after Fabio Di Giannantonio<\/a> launched his Ducati on Pedro Acosta<\/a>\u2019s inside at the penultimate corner.<\/p>\n The move pushed Di Giannantonio up to fourth, with Acosta admitting that he defended too hard on the final lap as he felt the Italiah was closer to him than he actually was.<\/p>\n While the overtake was clean, Acosta was somewhat frustrated, though he offered a tongue-in-cheek response: \u201cI insist; I thought he was closer, but I\u2019ll save that for next time,\u201d he told Spanish media, according to Motorsport, on Sunday at Le Mans.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody gets past me while I\u2019m looking at them. We\u2019ll see each other in the next race.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Acosta was running in the podium battle for much of the grand prix, before dropping back in the latter stages.<\/p>\n Reflecting on his race, he admitted: \u201cBeing honest, quite angry, because we lost a good opportunity for the podium.<\/p>\n \u201cBut in another way, on the other hand, it\u2019s one of my best weekends here in Le Mans. It\u2019s the first time that I finished both races.<\/p>\n \u201cFor this, from here to the moon! Anyway, I\u2019m quite happy. It was a tricky warm-up, low temperatures, I was expecting a wet race.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rain never came. For this, I\u2019m quite happy. We made a good start, we managed to make the first 10 laps quite fast. Then maintained the pace the next seven, and then suffered in the last nine.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cFor this, I\u2019m quite happy anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had to invent something\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Di Giannantonio said he planned to attack Acosta into Turn 9 on the final lap, but was too far back, which meant he had to \u201cinvent\u201d a pass into the penultimate corner.<\/p>\n He says he recalled a similar move he made on Marco Bezzecchi in Moto3 when deciding where to pass Acosta.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw that Pedro was riding really good and it was really difficult to attack him,\u201d the Italian said.<\/p>\n \u201cI was preparing the attack on Turn 9, but I was really far away on the last lap.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cSo, I had to invent, in a fast way, the attack and I just got a little deja vu from 2018 when I did the move on Bez in Moto3.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, I said, \u2018Ok, let\u2019s try to do it on Pedro\u2019, and it worked.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, I\u2019m happy because it was one place more, which is good, but also one place more for the championship. So, it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta has vowed \u201cwe\u2019ll see each other in the next race\u201d after VR46 MotoGP rider Fabio Di…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,15118,806,805,803,804,10734,85],"class_list":["post-663767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fabio-di-giannantonio","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663767","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=663767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}