Pedro Acosta The blind outings in Thailand Grand Prix were blindly angry, saying that he and KTM need to understand why their bikes faced with tire unloading during the race.
Acosta created the comments after crashing at Turn 1 at the beginning of the fourth lap, which lost a potential top 10 finish in Burriram. He was capable of removing RC16 and completing the race, but he was injured in 19th, only ahead of Aprilia Stand-in Lorenzo Savdori In the list of classified finisars.
The 20 -year -old explained that he suddenly unloaded behind his bike, while he was following the Aprilia of another factory. Marco BezchiDue to which he was lost in front and hit the deck.
Loading and unloading cornering, breaking and acceleration refers to physical forces acting on tires.
Spaniard stated that he is seeking an answer as to why 2025-Spake KTM is more prone to rear unloading issues than its predecessor, as the only way around the problem is to break more slowly before entering the corner.
“I am definitely urinating. There are many things that we do not understand that they survive,” he said. “We need to understand because this year it seems that the rear is very easy to remove.
“And then I took off the back of Bezchi, I was getting wide and was slipping too much and then I lost in front. (This was quite a normal accident, but we need to understand where this unloading is coming from.
Pedro Acosta, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Crash
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“When you take off the rear, suddenly you slide and it comes back with the front.
“It is a combination of things. We need to understand why one thing is working, why not another, to understand these things.
“The only way to unload the rear is to soften the softening, but it does not actually work for me for the lap time.”
KTM was suffering from tire longevity issues during testing at Burriram and the problem was taken over the race weekend, Austrian Market not more than the eighth with a bidder of bike running between the factory squad and Tech 3 satellite team.
ACOSTA said he wanted to complete the race after his accident to collect as much data on RC16 as possible and concluded that the tire fall on his bike was “not normal”.
“For this reason, I stayed in the race,” he said. “The speed was not bad at all. When I crashed, I lost 40 seconds.
“I hope they can investigate something in data because it was important to see how the tires were because all weeks we were in a dramatic position (with tires). We also need to understand why we have this fall, it was not normal.”
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