{"id":700223,"date":"2026-05-28T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700223\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:58:11","slug":"pedro-acosta-reacts-to-motogps-2027-single-bike-proposal-really-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700223\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta reacts to MotoGP\u2019s 2027 single bike proposal: \u201cReally bad idea\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Acosta has warned that introducing a single bike rule into MotoGP for 2027 could mean \u201cyour weekend is already over on day one\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> is reportedly considering ditching its current two-bike-per-rider system to save costs.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking at Mugello on Thursday, Acosta warned that, without a back-up bike, riders could miss entire track sessions while waiting for their bike to be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317038_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Pedro Acosta, 2026 Italian MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pedro Acosta, 2026 Italian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;A really bad idea&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s a really bad idea,\u201d GPone.com quotes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1040772\/pedro-acosta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Acosta <\/a>as saying of a single bike proposal.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that the championship and the manufacturers want to reduce costs. But this means that if you crash in the warm-up, you will not race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you crash in FP1, which is quite easy if you\u2019re not using the best tyre options, you destroy the bike and you don&#8217;t go to Practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you crash in Practice, you will not make Qualifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1316176_hires_1600x900_0.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Start, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Start, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>Acosta added that rebuilding a heavily damaged MotoGP bike in time for the next session would often be impossible.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that MotoGP is expensive, but it&#8217;s also not possible for three mechanics to repair a bike in three hours from zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would understand if you could use only one bike per session maybe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you need to have a complete spare bike in the background, just for these cases, because otherwise your weekend is already over on day one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta has warned that introducing a single bike rule into MotoGP for 2027 could mean \u201cyour weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,6399,806,805,803,804,10734,10670,85],"class_list":["post-700223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ktm","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\/700223","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=700223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}