168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini returns to the scene of a dominant 2024 British MotoGP double with hope rather than e🌃xpectatio꧑n aboard his new Tech3 KTM.

Bastianini swept to both Sprint and Grand Prix victories as a factory Ducati rider last season, making him the only repeat winner in recent Silverstone hi൩story - although technically, ten different riders have won the last ten premier-class Grands Prix.

The Italian won again last season at Misano and narrowly lost out to M꧙arc Marquez for third in the world championship, in a season of nine Sunday podiums.

But now riding KTM mac൲hinery, Bastianini has struggled to break into the front-running positions, with his best result so far a seventh place at COTA.

He also arrives at S🤪ilverstone with the added handicap of a long lap penalty for contact that left Francesco Bagnaia on the ground at Le Mans.

"Le Mans was💎 crazy for sure, but despite all the penalties, we managed toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ show decent pace in the race and score points,” said Bastianini, who finished the chaotic French GP in 13th.

“The asphalt was very slippery, but it was critical for everybody and, checking my speed on track, it was super 🎃good… Johann was much faster, butꦺ I was close to [the lap times] of Marc and Fermin.”

Sunday at the🍸 French GP saw Bastianini penalised no less t♊han three times.

The first was a double long lap due to a sighting lap bike swap. Then two more long laps fo𝔍r speeding in pit lane after switching to his wet bike. Despite a second crash, he eventually salvaged three points... then was handed a post-race long lap penalty for Silverstone for the earlier Bagnaia incident.

“Silverstone might be where he could click on the bike"

While the long lap will be an added obstacle, team manager Nicola🐻s Goyon hopes Bastianini’s past Silverstone form can help him finally ‘click’ with the KTM packag🐭e.

“Silverstone might be the race where he could click on the bike, because 🌠he lo♕ves it, as he showed it in 2024 winning both sprint and race,” said Goyon. 

“Unfor🉐tunately, he will have to serve a long lap penalty during the race, but I am sur๊e that it will give him extra motivation to perform in the UK."

Bastianini said: “Now we are focused on Silverstone, a track that I really enjoy, anꦛd where I am normally fast, so it will be interesting to see how the KTM behaves on this track.

“We have a long lap penalty to serve in the race, it’s🐽 not ideal, but let’s focus on doing a good job from Friday and getting a better spot on the grid ahead of our penalty.”

Team-mat⛎e Maverick Vinales has emerged as the most consistent KTM challenger in recent races, including a double top-five at Le Mans.

Factory riders Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder seem to have moved to the Vinales-styl𒐪e set-up, while Bastianini has continued running the larger rear seat unit ‘salad box’.