Pedro Acosta on a par with Aprilia at Silverstone? “In the pit lane”

Pedro Acosta (KTM) moved up from ninth on the grid to sixth place in the MotoGP Sprint at Silverstone, holding off Marc Márquez. But the competition from Noale is in a league of its own in England.

Bernhard M. Höhne

MotoGP

08.08.2026 - 20:50

This article is an automatically generated English version. The original article was published in German.

Zuverässig bester KTM-Mann: Pedro Acosta sprintete auf Platz 6
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“It was much worse than anyone could have expected!” said Pedro Acosta, summing up the events of Saturday’s sprint race at Silverstone. By “it”, the KTM rider was referring to the wear on the rear tyres on the British circuit at a track temperature of 41 degrees.

Yet the Spaniard was among the riders who benefited most from the tyres’ declining grip, as this was a key factor that helped the rider from Murcia cross the line in sixth place. Although the KTM frontrunner also struggled, under normal circumstances the rider with number 37 would probably have expected more resistance from Marc Márquez when he left his future team-mate behind on the penultimate lap.

So Acosta benefited, but he also had his own struggles: “Marc suffered even more than I did. It looked as though the riders further up the field generally had more problems with tyre degradation than the rest. But they were also much faster at the start of the race.”

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The 22-year-old had to pace his race differently to the leading group: “I often still have poor grip at the start of the race. In this race, though, I started having problems as early as the third lap – and there was still a long way to go. On top of that, it was much warmer than last year, which certainly didn’t help.”

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Martin – as fast as many in qualifying

Nevertheless, the youngster from Mazarron managed to fight his way up to sixth place. He had started the Sprint from ninth on the grid, the highest-placed rider on a non-Italian manufacturer’s bike. The former Moto2 World Champion was particularly impressed by Aprilia, as Pedro Acosta only felt as fast as the current World Championship leader’s bike in one situation over the course of the weekend: “In the pit lane.” The Ducati rider, who will be joining the team next year, went on to describe just how dominant the RS-GP bikes are on the British circuit: “Jorge Martin set a fastest lap of 1:57.4 in the sprint race. That’s faster than half the field managed in qualifying.”

All three riders on the sprint podium were riding Aprilias. No surprise there, as Acosta noted: “They were already winning here back when Aleix Espargaró was still riding for them.” Following the Silverstone Sprint, Pedro Acosta remains in seventh place in the World Championship standings. With 152 points, he trails Raúl Fernández by seven points.

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