Alvaro Bautista “sorry” for Sam Lowes crash in Dutch WorldSBK Race 1
Alvaro Bautista has taken the blame for the crash between himself and Sam Low🌃es ❀in WorldSBK Race 1 at Assen.

After a crash with Sam Lowes in WorldSBK Race 1 at this weekend’s Dutch Round, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista has apologised to b♔oth Lowe🎐s and his Aruba.it Racing Ducati team.
Bautista was trying to get to the front of the leading group when he crashed with Lowes, and the crash happened at the mﷺoment he tried to pass the British rider. The Spanish rider lunged down the inside, but lost the front and his crashe🐭d bike collected Lowes on the way to the gravel trap.
The two-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Champion said he was “angry” for the cꦚrash, and took the blame for the incident.
“I’m really angry with myself because I threw a race [away], because the perfor🍌mance was good,” Bautista told WorldSBK.com.
“This morning we tried a♛ big change in the setup but it didn’t like me so for the Superpole we came back. I did a good lap time even with some mistakes, but we were able to go quite fast and have not a bad position for the grid – fifth place was good. Then, with the penalties of Bassani and Toprak [Razgatlioglu] we gained two positions.
“So, the start was [good], then I started to fight with other riders and I think I was faster than the group I was fighting with, but with a lot of overtakes I could not find my space in the group, so I was not patient and I tried to overtake in all the places possܫible.
“At 𝐆the end, I crashed. I tried to overtake Sam [Lowes] and I crashed. I mean, it can happen.
“I’m disappointed for him because when I crashed I carried him, but some laps before we were 💃close to touching as well, so it was like a ‘race fight’ so it’s normal.
“I’m sorry for him, sorry for my team because I think today it was possible to fight very 🔯easily f🎉or second position.
“But this is racing. To fight for something you have to finish the race. But we have to keep the positives: we [had good] performance, I feltಞ good on the bike, so we have to keep this for tomorrow.”
Bautista went to Lowes afꦜter the crash when they were both on the service road and waiting to be taken back to the paddock.
“🌱I just said to him ‘sorry’ because I tried to pass him and then I crashed, bu💃t this is a normal thing of the race,” he said.
“Also, he told me ‘Sorry for the lap before,’ because we wer𓃲e close and he was very close to touching me. But this is racing, fortunately Sam is a nice guy and I hope to battle with him again tomorrow.”

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