Pata Yamaha rider Andrea Locatelli says he could have fought fo🅰r the podium in WorldSBK Race 2 at Portimao last weekend, but the red flag on lap eight was costly.

Both Locatelli and 🉐Michael🐓 van der Mark were keeping pace with Alvaro Bautista in Race 2’s original start, but their contention for third place with the Spaniard was ended on lap eight when the red flag was brought out for a crash for Jason O’Halloran at turn one.

Locatelli said after the race that he had a vibration with the new rear tyre he fitted for the restart, and this cost him a chance of fighting for a second podium of the weekend at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike's second round of 2025.

“Honestly, th🌼e red flag in this moment was⛦ a tricky point,” Locatelli told WorldSBK.com after Race 2.

“For sure we lost the possibility, because especially before the red flag I was feel🌌in🍨g much better.

“I don’t know what happened after the red flag – we changed the tyre and probably something happened and I [had] a big vibꦛration on the rear.

“So, it’s a race, sometimes everything is really perfect, so it was just a bit of a shame because I think if we didn’t lose time with Mickey [Michael van der Mark] and we could stay cl🍸ose to [Alvaro] Bautista, and the race wasn’t stopped, then probably we could fight for the podium.”

Despite missing out🌠 on the Race 2 podium, Locatelli was pleased, in general, with his weekend.

“I think we did an amazing 🌞job during this weekend,” Locatelli said.

“We were always there, close to getting two more po♒diums. So, basically I think we did a positive weekend; we are working really well on the base setup and we found some good fine-tun🎃ing in the end.

“In every condition, in every situation in the race we were quite strong. So, I was always believing because we have many possibilities and this weekend to finish always in the top-five is amazing,ꦿ but I don’t want to stop believing because I want to get more.

“But I think we did a🎶n amazing job, we did another step around myself, around the work that we did with my guys.”