Distant third place “the best possible” for Alvaro Bautista in Italian WorldSBK Race 1
Alvaro Bautista said he did “the best po🅷sꦡsible” Italian WorldSBK Race 1, finishing third and 11 seconds off the win.

Aruba.it Racing Ducati’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista finished in what on paper is a solid third place in Race 1 at the Italian WorldSBK, but that came with an 11-second deficit to his race winning teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nicolo Bulega.
The Spanish rider started well from fourth place on the grid, immediately moving up to third place in the opening metres off the line, but from the outset he was losing time to Bulega and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu ahead of hi🔯m, even as they battled over the lead.
Bautista explained that he didn’t know what to expect in the race; having crashed three times on Friday he was without any race simulation prior to the start, and so h𝓡e hadn’t felt how the tyres drop over the course of a race distance, or how that would affect the characteristics of the bike.
“For sure, today I can smile a bit more [than Friday], even if yesterday I was not 100 per cent unhappy because ꦦthe feeling with the bike was there,” Bautista told WorldSBK.com after Race 1 in Italy.
“For Superpole, I felt quite good, but for the race distance yesterday I was not able to do a long run so I didn’t know what to expect for the race, especially for the tyreღs and for the bike behaviour.
“So, I did the best possible, especially efter yesterday when I had a lot of crashes. We found a technical issue and today we could resolve it so fortunately we came b𝕴ack to our standard space and everything was working well today.”
The two-time 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Champion said that he found it difficult to push in the ea💦rly laps, which allow💧ed the leading two riders to escape.
When he saw the size of the gap behind him to fourth place, he then decided to focus o⛎n finishing the race, having crashed out of Race 1 at each of the last two rounds.
“In the race, in the first few laps, I struggled 💦a lot to to push the bike in the corners – with more weight and more heat it’s more difficult and I was struggling, and after a few laps Nicolo [Bulega] and Toprak [Razgatlioglu] were quite far,” he said.
“I just tried to survive; I s🌜aw the distance to fourth [place] was too big so I just tried to survive – it’s two races that we didn’t finish on Saturday so today it was important to fiꦓnish, also after yesterday.”
Bautista ad🍸ded that he felt he could improve for Sunday’s races, but that he was unsuꦍre if those improvements would be enough to improve his result.
“I think we have some areas to improve for tomorrow,” he said, “because today I felt in the race a bit ✱of a limitation, so we will try to improve for tomorrow.
“I don’t know if it will be enough to be with [Bulega and 📖Razgatlioglu], but we will try.”

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