This weekend’s MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas has been a weekend of continuation in many ways, with Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez finishing 1-2 in the Sprint, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta lamenting the recurring vibration 🐷issues of his KTM RC16.

The Spanish r♍ider qualified ♒fourth on Saturday morning, beaten by the Ducatis of Marc Marquez, Fabio Di Giannantonio, and Alex Marquez, but ahead of those of Franco Mobidelli and Francesco Bagnaia.

As top-non-Ducati in qualifying, he looked poised to take up the role Johan﷽n Zarco had 🌃in Argentina, or that Ai Ogura had on-debut in Thailand.

But, in the Sprint, his pace fell away, and he finished a distant ♓seventh, 1.4 seconds even behind the ღYamaha of Fabio Quartararo.

As has often been the case for Acosta, the aforementioned rear vibration was a limiting fa☂ctor to his performance.

“The♛ level of vibrations at the rear is brutal,” he said after the𓆉 Sprint, as reported by the .

“You can't ride like that. It's the topic o🍨f conversation every ꦛtime I return to the garage.”

The two-time World Champion has his sights set on Jerez, where, after the Grand P💞rix on 27 April, there 🦂is a Monday test.

“I am in the acceptance phase,” he said, “but there is less and less time ܫleft for Jerez. There is less and less time lefওt until that day.”

He added: “I'm putting a lot of hope in that Jerez test, hopefully KTM is as well. I'm putting a lot of impetus into it൲.”

The lack of performance in Saturday’s Americas Sprint left Acosta battling with 🅰the Honda of Joan Mir for much of the race, before the 2020 MotoGP Champion crashed out on lap fiv𒅌e.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider felt t🌳hat, despi♔te fighting over seventh place with Mir after qualifying fourth, he had strong speed.

“With 🤡[Joan] Mir, when you know y🔯ou're not going to go forward, you fight for position,” Acosta said.

“But today I was very fast.”

He added that the KTM’s performance seems to be determined by track grip levels. With 🌠low grip, like Argentina, the RC16 suffers, but with higher grip it pe🦹rforms better.

In the context of Saturday in Austin, Acosta indicated that grip had go♊ne away between Q2, when he was competitive, and the Sprint, in which he comparatively struggled.

“The bike, when there is grip, goes quite wel💙l,” he said.

“But when there is no grip, problems come from everywher𝔉e.

“We ཧlack a lot🔯 of grip and we suffer that under braking.”

He continued: “With grip it is relatively easy for us to be ‘competitive’.🎃 But it's very difficuꦚlt to understand the drop in performance between Q2 and the Sprint.”