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Jerez MotoGP Friday Round Up: Bagnaia Is Back, Why Acosta Benefits From Being A Rookie, And Marquez Adapts To The Ducati



Pedro Acosta gave us a reminder of why we say that the season starts for real once the paddock returns to Jerez. "The problem here is that everybody is so fast," the GASGAS Tech3 rider said on Friday. "Because since the CEV they were doing many laps here, like hell. Imagine how many laps in winter tests or with Panigales or whatever. Everything is so close, so close. I am sixth but the gap until tenth is less than one tenth, for this it is quite difficult." Acosta's time of 1'36.439 puts him exactly one tenth of a second ahead of Alex Marquez in tenth, and a time of 1'36.539.

Here, the paddock is back on terra firma, at a track they know well and understand. At Jerez they have a baseline, and a starting point to work. And that makes the job of finding an advantage that much more difficult. The top 16 are all within a second of each other, with little to choose between them.

David Emmett Fri, 26/Apr/2024 - 23:01

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