Tech3 GASGAS boss Nicolas Goyon described the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix because the crew’s “most tough weekend of the season”.
Whereas the sister manufacturing unit KTM steady confirmed properly on the Crimson Bull Ring, with Brad Binder fifth and Jack Miller working in sixth when he crashed, Pedro Acosta and Augusto Fernandez struggled exterior of the highest 10.
Acosta endured a bruising weekend as his Friday was blighted by crashes, with the Spaniard then failing to get out of Q1 and qualifying 14th.
Within the grand prix Acosta might do not more than thirteenth, taking the chequered flag 33.736s away from the win, whereas Fernandez was a number of seconds additional behind in fifteenth.
“Tough to say one thing,” Acosta mentioned.
“We have been having some issues that we weren’t anticipating, and to be sincere I used to be not likely realizing the place it was arriving from.
“Anyway, let’s see what we will do to enhance. Now the take a look at crew has two days in Misano after which arrives Aragon with a brand new floor for everybody. Let’s see the place we will arrive.”
Goyon added: “In all probability essentially the most tough weekend of the season for us and we knew it could possibly be difficult once we weren’t capable of make Q2.
“Interested by the highest 5 turns into a lot harder.
“Pedro didn’t have the pace he needed at this GP and we now have to concentrate on our weak factors for the time being to get robust once more.
“Augusto confirmed some combating spirit and was in P14 till the final nook. We’ll take it positively and construct on it for the long run.”
Fernandez says rear tyre administration made his a race of “survival” however was comfortable to have discovered some tempo for the grand prix having struggled for a lot of the weekend.
“A troublesome one. It’s a must to handle the rear tyre very properly right here and it nearly turns into like a ‘survival’ race,” he mentioned.
“Ultimately I’m proud of the purpose. We had been struggling all weekend and we have been nonetheless fairly far however I’m proud of the tempo we made at the least.
“I believe we did our most attainable as we speak. Let’s transfer on and construct some confidence for the remainder of the season.”
