Pedro Acosta urges KTM to ‘understand’ one confusing aspect of their 2025 MotoGP bike

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Pedro Acosta’s promotion to KTM’s factory MotoGP team is turning into a bit of a nightmare after two poor events to start 2025.

The Spaniard’s move from Tech3 was highly anticipated over the winter, despite KTM’s financial woes which saw their future placed under threat.

Acosta remained optimistic through it all, though it seems his hopes may be starting to fade after a tough start to the MotoGP campaign.

KTM have raised £671.5 million amid their financial crisis, and the motorsport division will be hoping that some of that is spent on improving their current bike.

Acosta has reminded Pit Beirer of Michael Schumacher but needs some time to develop as a rider, and for his bike to be upgraded before he can be expected to deliver victories for the Austrian outfit.

Pedro Acosta urges KTM to ‘understand’ why MotoGP bike changes so much

Acosta sits tenth in the riders’ championship after two rounds, which would be his worst finish in a championship since 2019 when he was 15 years old.

He’s had plenty of time on the current bike now and has sent a message to his team after a second consecutive difficult weekend.

“The race was better than the Sprint. We need to understand why the bike changes so much from one session to another and from one day to the next,” he told the Italian edition of Motorsport.com. “But at least the bike worked as such, as a motorcycle.

“We don’t like being like this. Neither me nor Brad Binder, who won world championships and MotoGP races. And the same goes for Maverick Vinales, who is a Moto3 champion and has fought for a MotoGP title, and also for Enea Bastianini.”

KTM have less than two weeks before the next round in Austin, where the COTA track presents one of the toughest challenges of the season for both riders and teams.

The exciting thing in Pedro Acosta’s data amid miserable start to 2025

Acosta’s data excited KTM engineers in Thailand after he showed a pace that would have seen him finish in the top five after an early fall.

Their bike is capable of sitting within the top 10 at the moment but isn’t quite up to the standards of the Ducati machines.

There’s a chance that the first few events simply suited their rivals more, but they still have to unlock more performance from their bike soon.

Otherwise, they risk falling behind the likes of Honda, who were really impressive and even managed to qualify inside the top three in Argentina.