Alvaro Bཧautista’s 2024 WorldSBK season was generallꦜy one of disappointment, but the Spaniard still had his highlights last year.

Bautista would ultimately relinquish the WorldSBK crown to Toprak Razgatlioglu at t💧he end of 2024, but the Ducati rider had his high poin✱ts along the way, most notably a double-win in Aragon.

For Bautista, it was the second of those two wins, coming in Race 2, that was the most noteworthy, as he bested Razgatlioglu in a lap time duel that lasted almost the whole race, and saw the Bautista himself go faster than h꧒is time from Superpole that put him third on the grid.

“In Race 2, the ꦦpace we did in the race was amazing,” Bau♕tista said, speaking to WorldSBK.com.

“For me, it’s been one of the best races in all of my car♔eer.

“The feeling I ไhad in Race 2 was amazing, I never had that feeling.

“I saw the lap time, fast lap, I saw the gap to Toprak, plus zero; next lap even 🍰faster, plus zero; next lap even faste✨r, plus zero.

“When I saw on the penultimate lap my best lap [time], even faster tha𒀰n in Superpole, I said ‘Sh*t,♛ I’m doing so well!’”

The Race 2 win was Bautista’s second of the day, after winning the Superpꦏole Race in a bar-to-bar battle with Toprak Razgatlioglu and Nicolo Bulega.

“It was a long time without w♈inning,” Bautista reflected. “It was very important to get the victory on Sunday.”

He added: “It’s always very special to come back ꦬto winning ways; espec𒁏ially when you win a race like [...] the Superpole Race [at Aragon], fighting with the two fastest guys of the category.

“We were battling against Nicolo [Bulega] and Toprak [Razgatlioglu], ꧂and in that moment I knew that I could not make a mistake and make something bad to my teammate [Bulega].

“I tried to pass Nicolo with two laps to ♉go, and then I saw the chance to be very close to Toprak.

“In the past, maybe it was easy to pass on 🃏the straight, but this year [2024] the BMW was quite fast, so I just 𒅌tried to make the move entering the long straight and try to close the last corner.”