{"id":702664,"date":"2026-05-29T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:51:09","slug":"pedro-acosta-looking-to-fellow-ktm-motogp-rider-to-solve-mugello-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702664\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta looking to fellow KTM MotoGP rider to solve Mugello problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Mugello MotoGP saw Pedro Acosta miss a Q2 position in Practice on Friday, with the Spaniard finishing down in 13th.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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 had a theoretical chance to get into the top-10 on his final lap of Practice, but he ran off track and had to abandon the lap.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Acosta explained afterwards that he lost the front and ran off as he saved it. It was not enough to save him a Q2 spot, though.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317686_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Pedro Acosta, 2026 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pedro Acosta, 2026 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold &amp; Goose<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI just lost the front and went into the gravel,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1040772\/pedro-acosta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Acosta<\/a> said after Practice in Italy.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe don\u2019t save a pass to Q2 but we save a crash. We keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The moment on the final lap of Practice was not the only reason Acosta was out of the top-10, though. The issues were more fundamental and were present from FP1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe were struggling, it was a day that we struggled too much [with] everything,\u201d explained Acosta.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAlready from the morning it was quite difficult to understand why we were having that amount of problems.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut anyway we have to try now to check the data with the team, try to analyse what was going on, and try to follow and check Enea\u2019s [Bastianini] data because it looks like he\u2019s the one that in this kind of flowing tracks, like here and Jerez, he\u2019s taking the advantage, let\u2019s say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317619_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Pedro Acosta, 2026 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pedro Acosta, 2026 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold &amp; Goose<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While Bastianini was strong in Jerez and repeated that at Mugello, finishing third in Practice, Acosta feels his issues in Italy are the same as those he suffered at the Spanish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cQuite similar to what happened in Jerez,\u201d he said when asked what he is struggling with at Mugello.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThat was also a track that I was struggling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis [Mugello\u2019s] corner eight and nine, looks like I\u2019m struggling a lot \u2013 quite similar to what happened in Jerez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor this, we will try to take Enea\u2019s way quite early compared to last time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mugello MotoGP saw Pedro Acosta miss a Q2 position in Practice on Friday, with the Spaniard finishing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,101326,806,805,803,804,10734,10670,26895,85],"class_list":["post-702664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-enea-bastianini","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-red-bull-ktm-factory-racing","tag-red-bull-ktm-tech3","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702664","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=702664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}