Alvaro Bautista picks Sepang as preferred MotoGP wildcard choice, will Ducati say yes?

Alvaro Bautista admits Sepang would be his preferred option for a MotoGP wildcard later in the season, should Ducati make it a possibility.
Alvaro Bautista, Ducati MotoGP Misano test 2023
Alvaro Bautista, Ducati MotoGP Misano test 2023

Well on track to claim a second WorldSBK title in su🐻ccession, Bautista is currently at Misano for a two-day private test aboard Ducati’s factory MotoGP machine.

The test, which ends today, got off to a gr𓂃eat start on Tu🥃esday with Bautista and Ducati both confirming that everything had gone better than expected. 

After completing a thir🐭d str𒉰aight hat-trick at Misano nearly three weeks ago, Bautista will next be in WorldSBK action in just over one week's time at Donington Park.

Whether Bautista continues his winning streak or not at the British circuit, a track that’s statistically one of his worst si𝓡nce joining WorldSBK in 2019, his 86-point advantage over Toprak Razgatlioglu means a healthy margin will reܫmain no matter what.

It’s a margin that only looks like going up which could result in Bautista winning the title well before the end of the Superbike championship, but also the MotoGP campaig♛n, meaning a wildcard could quickly become the focus.

Asked by wher💯e his🍸 preference for a MotoGP wildcard would be, Bautista confirmed Sepang as his first choice.

Bautista began by saying: "At the moment, doing a wildcard is not in my plans. I did a test.🌺 Now we have to be focused on th🦹e next three rounds because they are very close, and we need to be concentrating on them. 

"We’ll see. I don’t know if maybe Ducati will ask me to 𓄧do another test or not but, at the moment, there aren🧔’t any plans for the future. 

"After our Championship finishes, ✨there are a lot of races for MotoGP™. At this moment, I’m not thinking about a wildcard. 

"If you tell me you have to do one wildcard, which track would you like to race… maybe Sepang is a good track. I like ꦍit and there are long straights."

Ducati Corse General Manager, Gigi Dall’Ign♛a was also quick to place down a possible wildcard after day-one, however, Ducati Corse Technical Coordinator, Marco Zambenedetti, was a bit more open to the chances of it happening. 

"First of all, everything depends on the feeling that Bautista has. The main goal 💟is for him is WorldSBK ♈to keep the number 1 on the fairing. 

"Nobody knowꦫs. At the end of the Championship, if there is the time, we will se♏e."

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