Alvaro Bautista ‘not worried’ by P12 position, ‘I stopped a lot’
Alvaro Bautista says he’s not worried⛄ after having to stop many times throughout Friday practice at the Phillip Island WorldSBK round.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista concluded day-one of the WorldSBK season-opener in 12th place on combined times.
A five tenths gap separated Bautista from pacesetter Alex Lowes, but with mixed conditions and heavy wind dominating the day, plus electronics issues on ꦰBautista’s machine, a clear picture of the order was hard to taඣke away.
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“It was a very ‘special’ Friday for everybody because in both practices it started raining just before,” said Bauti🅘sta. “We🤪 didn’t make a lot of time on track and in FP2 we found some issues with the electronics.
“Also, we tried a different set-up toಌ improve my feeling and it didn’t work. I stopped a lot of times and didn’t do a lot of laps.
“But the few laps that I d🌳id ꩵwith the set-up that I used this morning, and was quite happy with, I was good and consistent.
“I’m happy with today because my physical conditꦗion is good and I felt more flow on the bike. My feelings are coming.
“Then, about the position; the lap times are really fast and everybody is very close. I’m not worried about the position and I’m more focused on myself and🐼 my feelings. It was a short but🅰 positive Friday.”
Bautista was seeꦚ🐠n wagging his hand when re-entering the box during FP2, but the two-time world champion played it down after the session.
“It was the total of everything because it started to rain before and I 💞tried to make a lap to see the condition, but then there was a red flag,” added Bautista.
“Then, when I started again I had an electronic issueꦑ and then I restarted again with the set-up that I didn’t feel c🀅omfortable with, so in the end it was chaos.
“But𓂃 the important thing is that I got a good feeling with the bike in the end.”
When speaking about his chance𒉰s for this weekend, Bautista was confident that he will be in the mix.
The Spaniard said: “I’m confident in myself and that the feeling with the bike is coming. Step-by-step it’s gett𒅌ing better and we will try to improve every session tomorrow.
“I think I can do 20 laps with the tyres, not like doing a ti🐷me attack every lap. It was possible to do 20 laps an൲d it depends how you work with your bike.
“But we have to make a compuls🐠ory pit stop and the strategy has to be to do two Superpole races.”
