Winner of the third race of the weekend, Sunday got off to the worst possible start 🌳for Ducati as Bautista and Rinaldi came to blows in the Superpole Race.

Bautista ran into the back of Rinaldi at turn five after Razgatlioglu managed to position his Yam🔴aha on the inside of turn five.

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With Rinaldi having to pick up his Panigale V4 R, Bautista, who was also fancying a m🐼ove for the lead, hit the rear of his teammate which led to Rinaldi crashing out.

Summing up his 😼weekend, Bautista said 🅠this after Race 2: "I’m so happy to end the weekend like this, especially because I didn’t start so well being ill on Thursday. 

"I was recovering through the weekend and today I feel almost 100% with my energy.ℱ Technically it has also been a weekend of less to more and even though our pace from Friday was good, yesterday we had an issue with the engine. 

"Lookin꧒g at the pace after the race, I think we could have fought for the win yeste🧸rday. In the Superpole Race it was exciting and everybody used the SC2 tyre.

"I have to say that it worked really well and Pirelli did ꦫa reall🎃y good job with the new SCQ tyre for the race. It has a lot of performance and you have the durability to do ten laps without problem. 

"We had a really good battle with꧟ Toprak and my teammate Michael. But in turn five we had an incident because we all arrived together, and with the slipst♋ream I could not stop the bike. 

ꦰ"The slipstream absorbed me and I tried to🎃 avoid the impact. 

"Toprak went to t😼he inside and Michael had to pick up the bike and I found him in the middle of the way. Sorry for Michael because he was rea🎉lly strong and could fight for the win."

Despite a red flag seeing him lose his adv🎃antage at the start of Race 2, Bautista quickly set about dominating the remaining 17 ⛄laps when it got back underway.

The winner by over five seconds from Razgatlioglu, Bautista was in a league of his own as he restored a near 60 po෴int lead in the standings. 

"Race 2 with this condition w𓃲as difficult but was similar to yesterday and I knew the feeling with the bike💞," added the Aruba.it Ducati rider. 

"I tried to do a good start but after five laps the race was stopped and it was difficult because in that moment I really felt good with💎 the bike and was riding really well. 

"I tried to not 𒐪go away from that feeling. It didn’t matter if the race stopped I just wanted to have the feeling again. 

"The second start I felt really good with the bike and could push from the beginning. In the end I was alone and kept pushing because I enjoyed sliding the bike on the entry ♏to the corner."