Alvaroꦰ Bautista crashed twice in WorldSBK R🍸ace 1 at this weekend’s WorldSBK Spanish Round, but there was still value in the race for the Spaniard.

Bautista’s poor Saturday started in Superpole, where a lack of speed left him down 🧔in 15🦋th on the grid, and continued into Race 1 where he crashed twice.

“It hasn🍷’t been the best day of my life,”✃ Bautista conceded when speaking to WorldSBK.com after Race 1 in Jerez.

“I could not make a good lap time in the Superpole. I didn’t have the confid🔥ence on the bike to push, I cannot ride the bi🦄ke as I wanted, like yesterday.

“In the racไe, I did more or less a good start, and I crashed in the second lap and I don’t know exactly why.”

Bautista got back on after his first crash and carried on in the race to try to 🐷🎀understand how he can improve.

“Then, I don’t have much damage to the bike and I can continue the race — basica𓆉lly because we need to understand how to improve, how to give me the confidence to ride, and tod﷽ay I made some tests during the race, trying different things to see where we need to improve.

“The good thing i🅰s that I understand many things. 🀅The pace was not too bad, sincerely, it was [good] enough to do a podium, easy.

“But, for me it was important to understand better. I think I had a lot of conc꧙lusions from the race, from my fe𝓰eling, from the data.

🐠“For sure, I’m not happy because I crashed twic꧂e, but I’m happy because I learn and I gave a lot of information to my team.

“We will try to improve in the areas that I need, and tomorro🐼🍎w we can make some tests, but at least now I have a better idea of the points we need to improve.”

Bautista continued, explaining more sp🦹ecifically the area he feels he needs to improve after Race 1 in Jerez.

“I think now I h💙ave a better idea that we need to improve in some areas that, for sure, if we can make a step there, then the rest is coming a bit easier,” he said.

“Especially, we need to improve the entry of the corner. I knew that I struggled w🐲ith the🎃 rear grip, but, in reality, this weekend I understood that the rear grip, exiting from the corner, is a consequence of the entry.

“Definitely, we need to improve that area, the entry of tꦉhe corner, and we will try to do it.”

Bautista’s relatively poor feeling 🐎in Jerez follows something similar in Est♛oril last weekend. These two rounds come after Bautista’s 2024 season peaked in Aragon, where he won two races.

Those wins came aft⛄er a period of improvement for Bautista that began at the Czech Round during the summer, but Bautista explained that the poorer feeling he’s had in Estoril and Jerez does n🌳ot undermine the progress he felt he made in Most.

“From Most to here, weꦦ took a step forward with the feeling,” he said.

“The probleᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚm is it depends also on the conditions if we are stronger or less stronger. We need to be stronger in all conditions — you can be faster or slower, but not with one race stay on the top and with another struggle to be on the podium.”