Pedro Acosta knocked 6.796s from his Dash time in comparison with Misano 1, setting a tempo that might have put him within the wheeltracks of race winner Jorge Martin simply two weeks in the past.
Sadly for the GASGAS Tech3 MotoGP rookie, Saturday’s Emilia Romagna Dash profitable time by Francesco Bagnaia was an identical 6.265s faster than Martin two weeks in the past.
Acosta at the least completed one place larger, fifth as a substitute of sixth, and was once more the highest non-Ducati rider. However he admitted the hole to the highest stays daunting.
“It was fairly a very good day. Additionally we have been a lot sooner within the Dash race in comparison with final week, for this now we have to be joyful,” Acosta mentioned.
“However we nonetheless work to work as a result of ending six seconds from first is sort of an enormous [gap]. For this we have to see the place to enhance for tomorrow.”
Acosta was seen operating the eye-catching swingarm wings, beforehand used on wild-card Pol Espargaro’s prototype bike.
“We used a few of the aerodynamic parts we examined right here and eventually a few of them helped us to maintain the tempo,” mentioned Tech3 crew supervisor Nicolas Goyon.
“We achieved our goal however Pedro is aware of there’s room to be higher and that’s what we’ll goal for in tomorrow’s race.”
Brad Binder was the subsequent greatest KTM, one place and 1.5s behind Acosta, whose team-mate Augusto Fernandez completed twentieth.
Mixed Emilia Romagna/San Marino Dash race occasions (13 laps):
1 Francesco BAGNAIA 19’50.237 Emilia Romagna
2 Jorge MARTIN 19’50.522 Emilia Romagna
3 Enea BASTIANINI 19’51.556 Emilia Romagna
4 Marc MARQUEZ 19’55.623 Emilia Romagna
5 Jorge MARTIN 19’56.502 San Marino
6 Pedro ACOSTA 19’56.817 Emilia Romagna
7 Francesco BAGNAIA 19’57.997 San Marino
8 Franco MORBIDELLI 19’58.334 San Marino
9 Brad BINDER 19’58.38 Emilia Romagna
10 Enea BASTIANINI 19’58.543 San Marino
11 Fabio QUARTARARO 19’58.642 Emilia Romagna
12 Marco BEZZECCHI 19’59.202 Emilia Romagna
13 Franco MORBIDELLI 19’59.508 Emilia Romagna
14 Maverick VIÑALES 19’59.775 Emilia Romagna
15 Miguel OLIVEIRA 20’1.779 Emilia Romagna
16 Aleix ESPARGARO 20’2.286 Emilia Romagna
17 Marc MARQUEZ 20’2.971 San Marino
18 Pedro ACOSTA 20’3.298 San Marino
19 Brad BINDER 20’6.481 San Marino
20 Alex MARQUEZ 20’6.803 Emilia Romagna
21 Jack MILLER 20’7.228 San Marino
22 Fabio QUARTARARO 20’7.517 San Marino
23 Alex MARQUEZ 20’7.854 San Marino
24 Maverick VIÑALES 20’8.160 San Marino
25 Aleix ESPARGARO 20’8.585 San Marino
26 Jack MILLER 20’9.648 Emilia Romagna
27 Luca MARINI 20’10.338 Emilia Romagna
28 Johann ZARCO 20’10.835 Emilia Romagna
29 Raul FERNANDEZ 20’10.979 Emilia Romagna
30 Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO 20’13.056 Emilia Romagna*
31 Takaaki NAKAGAMI 20’15.631 Emilia Romagna
32 Augusto FERNANDEZ 20’15.668 Emilia Romagna
33 Joan MIR 20’17.445 Emilia Romagna
34 Johann ZARCO 20’17.621 San Marino
35 Pol ESPARGARO 20’18.044 San Marino
36 Miguel OLIVEIRA 20’18.497 San Marino
37 Augusto FERNANDEZ 20’19.944 San Marino
38 Raul FERNANDEZ 20’20.782 San Marino
39 Luca MARINI 20’21.249 San Marino
40 Alex RINS 20’21.375 San Marino
41 Takaaki NAKAGAMI 20’21.656 San Marino
*8-second post-race time penalty.
