What Acosta was missing in Aragon GP fight with Marquez

Pedro Acosta says he would have had no tyre performance left if he had kept up with Marc Marquez in their fight for victory at the Aragon Grand Prix.

The factory KTM rider produced one of the performances of the season at MotorLand Aragon, finishing just 1.7s behind his Ducati counterpart Marquez in second.

After jumping from sixth to third early on, he pulled off a brilliant pass on Bezzecchi at the end of the back straight on lap 6, before hounding Marquez for the lead.

Despite his RC16 clearly not being a match to the GP26, Acosta kept the pressure up on Marquez for the next phase of the race, preventing his