Like in Jerez last week, the WorldSBK champion proved to be fast, consistent and firing on all cylinders 🌟aboard the new Panigale V4 R at the final Eur♛opean pre-season test.

Bautista led the way following the opening session of the day as he battled 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu for top spot.

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The pair’s battle continued into the afternoon as the Pata Yamaha rider went back to the top of the timingsheets, be🍰fore Bautista responded as he looked on course to finish fastest.

However, a late effort from Rinaldi on race tyres, and Rea, resulted in the to꧙p three being separated by less than a tent🍰h.

While it was another strong day for the world champion, Bautista faced an early issue af♛ter feeling ‘something strange’ in the corners. 

"In the end I’m happy. In the morning I felt something strange on the bike and we🐓 checked all the sectors and they were the same as the race weekend, so 𓃲at the end the bike was working strange because it was working in a different way in all the corners," added Bautista. 

"When we fixed it, suddenly I felt, ꦑboom! We were quite consistent throughout the day and we tried some items for the set-up, especially on the front fork. 

"🌠We didn’t find something better, in fact, we found something similar or even worse because I think the base we have is quite good so we want to find something, maybe not a big improvement, but something that helps me a little bit. At the moment it’s not easy to find."

Despite ‘big’ improvements not being found, something that was always going to be difficult given the fact Ducati have introduced a new▨ bike and the last m𒈔odel helped bring Bautista the world title, the Spanish rider felt as though the potential is there after setting a time that was less than a tenth off the lap record on race tyres.  

Bautista added: "But I'm quite confident because I rode with the SC0 tyre all day and my fastest lap was with the SC0 tyre. That means we are in the right place. [Day-two] we have other ideas for the set-up to make the𒐪 bike a bit more stable because I had some problems exiting the corner. 

"Maybe, due 𝔉t🐷o my weight I can’t push too much to the bike and I have a bit of instability. We have some front tyres from Pirelli to try that I didn’t try in Jerez."