Alvaro Bautista compromised by tyre choice in Dutch WorldSBK practice
Alvaro Bautista says imperfect tyre choices compromised his practice at the Du𒈔tch W🅠orldSBK.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista ended FP2 fifth-fastest at the Dutch WorldSBK and almost half-a-second behind his teammate: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nicolo Bulega. But the Spaniard was positive at the end of the day, in any case, blaming his๊ afternoon sp🍸eed on poor tyre choice.
The two-time 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Champion had been fastest in FP1, when, he said, he got his tyre ℱchoice rig💛ht.
“I think it has been positive because this morning straight away I felt good on theꦓ bike,” Bautista told WorldSBK.com at the close of Fridayꦜ in Assen.
“I was using I think the right tyres as well, because I think in FP1 it’s the first time I’ve used the SC1 on the front – normally I use SC2, but in the morning with the cold conditions we preferred to start with the ‘righ𓄧t tyre’, not like in other races.
“So, straight away I had a good feeling, also with the new rear [tyre] from Pirelli I felt quite good. S♋o, the feeling was there, I was able to enjoy riding, I did some slides around the tra𓂃ck and I had a lot of fun.”
While he’d made the right choices on tyres in the morning, Bautista felt his cꦡombinations of front and rear compounds in FP2 compromised his running; although he ultimately felt that his feeling with the Panigale V4 R was positive.
“This afternoon we started with the harder compound on the fr꧅ont and the new [tyre] on the r🍒ear, and on the rear it was good but on the front I had not the same feedback – even if we went faster than in the morning, but the feeling wasn’t the best,” he said.
“At the end of the practice we coꩵmpared both the front and rear, so we put the softer 🦩[tyre] on the front and finally I felt much better; but the problem is that I had the wrong tyre at the rear.
“So, in the afternoon we missed [using] the right [front and rear tyres] at the same time – one time we put the right one at the front ꧒and the wrong one at the rear, and before we put the wrong on the front and the right at the rear.
“But the feeling is there, I’m 🌞really happy with the feeling I had with the bike.
“We don’t need to change a lot on the bike, so that means that we have a good base that worked in Australia, that worked in Portimao and also here with three very different tracไks and the feeling is quite similar.”
Bulega: “Good” feeling but not “100% nice”
Bautista’s Aruba.it Racing Ducati teammate, Nicolo Bulega, was fastest by 0.252 seconds in FP2, but even the Italian felt that he wa𒈔s “struggling too 🍷much”.
“I feel good with my bike, we made an improvement from FP1 to FP2,” Bulega tꦏold WorldSBK.com.
“Honestly, it is not 100 per cent a nice feeling. We ca💎n still improve, not the lap time but my feeling, to be more comfortable on the bike. I am ꦅstruggling too much.
“In gener🔯al, 🌱it was a good Friday. I hope to make another improvement.
“I want to be more coಞmfortable on the bike, and be faster.”

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