Pedro Acosta’s patience is wearing thin with the KTM MotoGP project after he described the British Grand Prix as a “race of hopelessness.”
The 21-year-old finished the race in sixth place, finishing the 19-lapper as the sole KTM rider inside the top ten positions.
The Austrian marque’s bleak situation resulted in none of its riders reaching the second phase of qualifying. Still, Acosta made it clear that the team need improvements sooner rather than later.
“Well, not a strange race. It was a race of hopelessness,” he told media including Motorsport Week.
“It’s quite sad to see that you try to be perfect in acceleration and picking up [the bike] and [lean] angles and try to be close [to the other riders] and then lose everything in acceleration for the clear thing that we don’t have this amount of grip that the others bike have.
“But it is what it is, and we have to keep going. I don’t accept [the current situation] and I’m not patient. That’s it.”
Pedro Acosta describes what’s ‘burning my blood’
Acosta revealed that time is running out for KTM to change its fortunes, otherwise it could lead to a possible departure in subsequent seasons.
After all, the Spaniard has been heavily linked with a switch to Honda, but he made a stern remark to KTM, saying it was “burning my blood.”
“Opportunity passes one time in life. I will not take all of my life to be a champion in this championship. I need help from the factory. That’s it.”
“You are only young until you are not. Many stars in the championship grow so fast and disappear as fast. Freddie Spencer. You remember? He won two titles, then had something with his arm and then never came back the same.
“At the end, it’s not that it’s only myself. You see the four KTMs out of Q2 this week and struggling a lot this weekend. We need help from the factory. Now I’m talking about the four riders, not only me.”
“But this weekend I talked quite seriously that I need help. I don’t want to come here with KTM and just burn fuel. I want to compete.”
He added: “And today I was able to compete more or less, until one time when I was in the group of Marc [Marquez], Franco [Morbidelli], Jack [Miller] and Alex [Marquez] and I was not able to fight.
“This is the thing that is burning my blood: to be so close and don’t catch it and not be able to do it, and it doesn’t matter what you do as it never arrives.”
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