Pata Yamaha WorldSBK rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andrea Locatelli declared himself “quite happy” with his performance i🔯n Friday practice at the Dutch WorldSBK,🍸 and believes he can finish on the podium this weekend.

Assen is the circuit where Locatelli first finished on the podium in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike back inꦺ his debut season, 2021, and he came to the Netherlands this weekend off the back of his first podium of the seas🌸on at the Portuguese Round two weeks ago.

Also – theoretically at least – playing into his and Yamaha’s favour this weekend is the fuel flow reductions imp𝔍osed on Ducati and BMW as a result of their respective performances in the opening two rounds.

Although it was Ducati’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nicolo Bulega who l꧅ooke💮d strongest on Friday, Locatelli and Yamaha still showed strong potential from Friday morning in Assen.

“Basically, we started in a good point this morning with the bi🌞ke,” Locatelli told WorldSBK.com after FP2 on Friday in Assen.

“I was quite confident and after a good FP1 we made a small change on the bike because we didn’t try using a soft [compound] tyre d♔uring [FP1] and today it was important for us to understand, especially for [Saturday] in the race if it’s possible to use the soft compound.

“It looks lik🐼e [it’s possible], so we made an improvement today duringꦗ FP2 and I’m quite happy with the bike.”

The improvements meant Locatelli was confident of being able to fight for the pod🐈✅ium, although he stressed the importance of achieving it in Race 1.

“I feel like we can make another step forward, we will try to work on all the details tonight and I hope that [﷽in Race 1] we can fight for the podium 100 per cent,” he said.

“For sure, we need to improve a bit but ♉I’m quit🌳e confident to be there [on Saturday].

“We need to try immediately to do it because it’s Race 1 [...] which is always a bit more tricky fo𝓡r eve𒉰ryone.

“We have a good potential and we need to try [🦹to finish on the podium in Race 1] because for sure then Sunda🌺y is coming a bit difficult.”