Bautista finished the Malaysian MotoGPꦉ in 17th, however, it wasn’t without reason as the WorldSBK champion brought to light an injur♏y he’s been dealing with.

The Spaniard crashed at th🦹e post-season test in Jerez, hurting his neck and collarbone in t🐼he process. 

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“It hasn’t been an easy weekend🍸; I’m not using excuses but after the last WorldSBK race, we did a test and I crashed,” Bautista told MotoGP.com. 

“I hurt my neck and collarbone. I felt pain but after two or three days, it disappeared. However, here from FP1, I felt ꦑlike I didn’t have enough power in my left arm.&🀅nbsp;

“I worked with the physiotherapist but it didn’t improve. It got worse and worse ♍day by day and I was struggling a lot to make force with it.

“My crew chief, checking the data compared to other Duca🌟ti riders, said ‘why are you so fast like the others in the right-hand corners but you lose almost one second in the left corners?’ but the reality is that I couldn’t ride how I wanted. 

“Again, it’s not an excuse; I’m very angry ♔with myself becaus🉐e I couldn’t enjoy my riding at 100%. 

“The good thing is that the championship is done; I’ll go backꦿ to Spain and have a check on why Iﷺ lost the power and try to get better in the winter.”

Bautista’s rivals expected him to be in c🥀ontention for big points over the course of the weekend, but with the 38-year-old dealing with different injuries, it comes as no surprise that he was bel🐟ow par

Bautista said the injuries were 90% of the issue and that the rest was trying to adapt to 𝓡MotoGP machinery again.. 

“This was 90% of the problem,” began Bautista. “The other 10% was the confiﷺdence and the setup; with this problem though, what you do with the bike is difficult to understand. 

“I couldn’t push or do my best so it’s a bit frustr💛ating that having this 💙chance, I can’t use it.”