Alvaro Bautista’s 2024 WorldSBK season was generally one of disappointment, but 🙈the Spaniard still had his highlights last year.

Bautista 🎃would ultimately relinquish the WorldSBK crown to🎀 Toprak Razgatlioglu at the end of 2024, but the Ducati rider had his high points along the way, most notably a double-win in Aragon.

For Bautista, it was the second of those two wins, coming in Race 2, that was the most noteworthy, as he bested Razgatlioglu in a lap time duel that lasted almost the whole race, and saw the Bautista himself go faster than his time from Superpole that put him third o🍌n the grid.

“In Race 2, the pace we did in the race was amazing,” 💧B🐲autista said, speaking to WorldSBK.com.

“For me, it’s been one of thꦗe best races in all of my career.

“The feeling I had in Race 2 was amazing, 💦I never had that feeling.

“I saw the lap time🥃, fast lap, I saw the gap to Toprak, plus zero; next lap even faster, plus zero; next𒅌 lap even faster, plus zero.

“When I saw on the penultimate lap my best lap [time], even faster than in Superpole, I said ‘Sh*t, I’m doiꦬng so well!’”

The Race 2 win was Bautista’s second of the day, after winning the Superpole Race in a bar-t🔯o-bar battle✅ with Toprak Razgatlioglu and Nicolo Bulega.

“It was a long time without winning,” Bautista reflected. “It was very important to get the victo♈ry on Sunday.”

He added: “It’s always ဣvery special to come back to winning ways; especially when you win a race like [...] the Superpole Race [at Aragon], fighting with the two fastest guys ꦇof the category.

“We were bat🌳tling against Nicolo [Bulega] and Toprak [Razgatlioglu], and in that moment I knew that I could not make a mistake and make something bad to my teammate [Bul꧙ega].

“I tried to pass Nicolo with two laps to go, and then I saw the chance to be very close to☂ Toprak.

“In the past, maybe it was easy to pass on the straight, but this year [2024] the BMW was quite fast, so I just tried to make the move en😼tering the long straight🀅 and try to close the last corner.”