Phillip Island is not a circuit where aggressive battles are a rarity, and in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Race 1 on Saturday it was Alvaro🐓 Bautista and Scott Redding who delivered one of the most intense duels.

For Bautista, Race 1 in Phillip Island saw him 💃back on the podium having missed out in all three races in the final round of 2024 at Jerez; while Redding’s podium-contending ride resulted in fifth: his best result since he was fourth in the Superpole Race at Magny-Cours last September.

“I fought a little bit with Scott [Redding] that was too aggressive ꦦbut at the end I was able to get some distance,” Bautista told WorldSBK.com.

He clarified: “Not aggressive, but he [Redding] tried, for sure, to be there because he’s strong here, maybe, with the strong wind [because] big riders ✅have more strength on the bike and they can move the bike a bit better.

“I struggle a little bit more.

“He did a really good race because he started very well and he stayed t🐎here all the time.

“But when he was in front of me hꦅe was slower, so I think he was fast because he had the reference, but he battled very well.”

Redding himself descr𒉰ibed the battle with Bautista as “tasty”, and “good, clean racing”.

“It was tওasty, that one [with Bautista],” he told WorldSBK.com.

“It was nice. Being able t𝔉o overtak🌳e people again and to race in a way that I’m able to race, and I was having a lot of fun.

“I was pushing a lot because at the moment they are a bit faster than me so I was trying to adapt aꦑnd learn in the moment, and when you make a step with the speed there’s a lot of things changing.

“T🦂hen I said ‘Ok💎ay, come on, we fight a little bit with them’.

“Then Alvaro [Bautista] came under quite aggr✨essive, and I said ‘Okay, take a breath, we go racing again’.

“It was nice. It was good, clean racing.”