A fourth place for Tito Rabat in WorldSBK 🧸FP2 at the Italian Round in Cremona was comfortably the Spanish rider’s best showing so far in the championship.

Rabat, the 2014 Moto2 World Champion, currently sits 21st in the riders’ standings, with a best result of 14th. But, at Cremona, he was less than 0.3 seconds off t🎐he fastest time, and two places ahead o𒈔f the reigning World Champion, Alvaro Bautista.

“It was definitely my best da🍃y so far in an official race weekend,” Rab🧸at told WorldSBK.com.

“We started quite good. We made two coಞnsistent stints. In the end, here is a new track and we had the opportunity to come and test here three months ago.

“Everyone teste𝄹d so we’re in t🔴he same situation as the rest of the riders. It’s a new track, it’s a narrow track.

“My Kawasaki works quite well. We are trying to understand, as a private team with my crew chi♛ef and mapping guy, all the information from Kawasaki. We started well with P4.

“Now what’s important is tryingꩵ to work as an official team, try to have some help for tomorrow to make a step [like] the official guys will do.

“I know that I’m fast.🍨 ꩲWe have the bike; we just need to manage the weekend well.”

Attempting to explain his speed at Cremona, Rabat said: “I do a lot of training. I try to do my best. The official guys go to practice every weekend and ꦺI try to go to the Spanish championship with the standard bike to practice.

“I try to do tests with Manuel, but we can’t do the same ✨amount as the other [teams].ಌ Then, we try to do what we can, and we are doing our best.

“The reason for Cremona, maybe because it’s the first time everyone 🌳comes here, it’s a narrow track and the Kawasaki works quite well on these kind of tracks.”

Perhaps there is also some superstiti🦩o꧑n in it for the #53.

“The 😼most🍸 important is the 53rd track that WorldSBK goes to,” Rabat joked.

“Cross fingers, we’ll see if we can take prof🐬it of that. We worked so well with the starts. We start𓃲 well. The reality is we were P4 today, so why not tomorrow?

“We just need to keep calm, take all the information from Kawasak💟i and KRT and try to manage the information in the best way possible.”