Closing in on factory Kawasaki riders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Lowes and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea as conditions began to dry, Bautista was the quickest rider on circuit before the first flag-to-flag WorldSBK race of 2022 saw a complete shake-up take plac🅠e. 

Bautista was looking set to challenge Rea for second place before the six-time champion dashed into pit lane with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu.

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But Bautista, like race leader Low𒈔es,༒ chose to stay out which proved costly as he came out of the pits on the following lap over 10 seconds down on Rea.

"It's been a new experience for everybody, for me and also for the team, having a flag-to-flag race," said Bautista💧. 

"In the beginning, it was strange in wet conditions bec💞ause I had a worse feeling than this morning during the practice. 

"I struggled a lot to have some temperature on the tyre and I was sufferi🐬ng a little bit even if I was in the front group. 

"Then I saw that the track w🐻as drying step by step. But I wanted to be sure that we'll have a clean line in the dry to make the ꧒switch."

While a win was looking out of the question, Bautista was expected to at least close in 🌺on the riders ahead after seemiℱngly having the best dry-weather pace this weekend.

Instead, Bautista faded badly as Lowes and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Locatelli got the better of him. 

The Ducati rider blamed his wet set-up for the lack of pace, but that his weight disadvantage meant he also struggled to get heat into his dry tyꦅres.   

"I𒉰 switched the tyres and with the set-up I had for the wet conditions, it wasn't working so well for the dry tyres," added Bautista. "I didn't have too much confidence. On the front I couldn't brake so hard because the bike started to move and jump a lot but also on with the rear tyre, it was like riding on ice. 

"I needed five or six laps to start to feel some grip on the rear. I think this is a big disadvantage to be light because I caꦆnnot put weight on the lap in these kinds of conditions. 

"We depend too much on the setup of the bike. If the setup is nice, I can push like I did in the Superpol🌠e where I did a really good lap time on the SC0 tyre. 

"But when the race setting is not the 📖right setting for me it's difficult because the bike is more difficult to go into the corners and I cannot move myself to put some weight at the front or the rear. I am more limited than other riders. 

"Anyway, I'm happy. It has been a new experience. We did a really challenging race. For sure we have some data for the futureꦐ in case this ha🐟ppen again."