MotorLand continued to be a hot party for the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 on Sunday, with Pedro Acosta from Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 finishing on the third step of the podium at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragón, his first Sunday podium since the Americas Grand Prix, making it his third podium in the premier class. Augusto Fernandez finished in the points with a hard-fought 12th place on home Grand Prix. 

In Austin earlier this year, rookie Pedro Acosta had finished on the podium after starting second on the grid. Well, he did it again on Sunday afternoon, as he completed the top 3 of an exciting race that saw Marc Marquez win a Grand Prix for the first time in 1043 days. As lights went out for 23 laps of madness, Acosta kept his grid position this time behind Marc Marquez, followed close by Jorge Martin and Alex Marquez in a similar scenario than yesterday. Small scare shortly after as the rookie tried to defend his position to a charging Martin, and both went wide, allowing yesterday’s sprint winner Marquez to escape 1.8 seconds away in less than two laps. The 2023 runner-up continued with the pressure to eventually pass Acosta in the final sector of lap 2, and we had a Martin-Acosta-Alex Marquez trio wheel to wheel. Martin escaped ahead, leaving Acosta with the Alex Marquez’ threat close. Eventually, the #73 benefited from the slipstream in the straight line to move past the rookie in turn one of the third lap, with Franco Morbidelli, Francesco Bagnaia and Brad Binder making the effort to close the gap. While he was in P4, the medium-medium tyre choice started to play its trick with Acosta’s lap times going down after five laps in the low 1’49. That allowed the shark to breath while the battle for 5th behind him was an intense one. After ten laps, the order of that trio changed, with world champion Bagnaia now back just half a second away, lapping strong in the high 1’48. Soon the #1 was able to pass by the #31, as Acosta’s late braking in T16 had him go wide, allowing Bagnaia to move past to go chase Alex Marquez, while big brother Marc Marquez was nowhere to be seen at the front. Twelve laps to go. Acosta was in 5th with a chasing Binder eager to overtake his future teammate. The goal at that time was trying to manage the tyres as the grip was extremely low, but that was without the crazy incident between Bagnaia and Alex Marquez in lap 17, one that saw Pedro provisionally stand in third! The rookie had six laps left to defend his 1.3 seconds gap to Binder, which he brilliantly did! Acosta wrapped up a perfect Aragón Grand Prix weekend, with a front row start, a bronze medal in the sprint, and a third place on Sunday. Congratulations to the whole team!

Starting from P19 on the grid, Augusto Fernandez had his positive race pace from the sprint, and was eager for more on the long distance. The Spaniard gained two positions in one lap as he settled behind Aleix Espargaro. He rode his fastest race lap on lap 5 in 1’49.723, a pace that allowed him to breathe more with Joan Mir a bit more than one second behind. Feeling good, the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 rider tried to close the gap to Espargaro. A few laps later, we had a Fernandez in the wheel of a Fernandez as Augusto closed on Raul. A small mistake from the Trackhouse rider saw Augusto move up to 14h, but Alex Rins had caught him back and passed by. With the Bagnaia-Marquez crash ahead, Augusto was back in the point-scoring positions. On lap 18 and 19, the #37 lost a bit of rhythm, which allowed Johann Zarco to catch him back, but Fernandez defended his ground pretty well to remain in 13th, until the checkered flag. With Jack Miller being handed a 16 second-penalty after the race, Augusto finished 12th of the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragón.

Great weekend overall for the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 MotoGP™ squad, and we will look to use the positives from this weekend to perform well next week at the Gran Premio Red Bull di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini, on September 6-7-8.