Pedro Acosta opens up on horrifying Alex Marquez MotoGP crash in Barcelona
Updated: 14:37, 14 Jun
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Pedro Acosta has opened up about his experience being involved in a horrifying crash with Alex Marquez at this year's Catalan Grand Prix.
In a recent appearance on the Gypsy Tales Podcast, Pedro Acosta sat down with Jase Macalpine to discuss a wide variety of topics ranging from his childhood up to the current MotoGP season and beyond. Over the course of the three-hour episode, Pedro gave his insight into the recent accident involving Alex Marquez in Catalonia, which the Gresini rider ended up being taken to hospital for with a broken collarbone and fractured neck vertebrae.
Not easy to see these crashes from the outside, but even worse knowing that you were in the middle...- Pedro Acosta on Alex Marquez crash in Barcelona
The crash was one of the most shocking incidents in recent years, and generally marred a heroic race win for VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio. Acosta, who led most of the race even after being involved in the Alex Marquez crash, ended up being taken down on the final corner of the final lap by Japanese youngster Ai Ogura.
"Everything was quite tough because normally in MotoGP we don't get technical issues." Said Acosta, when asked about the crash, "It's super difficult that a bike stopped, even in the qualifying that we are really, really on the limiting fuel. The bike is so difficult to switch off.
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"I mean I was like revving the third, before putting fourth, and just everything... disconnect.
"Normally, when our bike switch off means that everything switch[es] off. I mean the dashboard, the throttle, everything. In that case, no, in that case only switched off the throttle, because the engine was on, and the dashboard was on, and many things were on on the bike. For this, even to myself, was not easy to understand."
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Macalpine then asked for a more detailed explanation of Acosta's point of view during the incident, a moment which clearly rattled the young Spaniard along with the majority of the MotoGP grid:
"Horrible... Not easy to see these crashes from the outside, but even worse knowing that you were in the middle, for any reason. I mean, sure, it was not my fault, but in the end it was the fault that my bike switch off.
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"Really grateful that he has only one broke collarbone and one crack in the vertebrae, let's say, because I think that somebody go out from the sky and said 'Okay, you will be okay.'"
Acosta is not the only rider to experience such sentiments. Recently VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio also said that he prays before every race, emphasizing just how dangerous the sport is, and how it's competitors are all-too aware of that danger even when fighting at high speed.
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