Alvaro Bautista has warned Toprak&nbsꦡp;Razgatlioglu that he r𝐆emains in the hunt for the championship.

This season’s star performer Razgatlioglu is absent from this weekend’🙈s Italian World Superbikes round at Cremona due to an injury sustained last time ou🐬t.

It means two-time champion Bautista🦩 has a massive opportunity to cut the 122-point deficit to Razgatlioglu at the top of the standings.

Bautista insisted he is still a title contendꩲer: “Until the mathematics say the💮 opposite, then everything is possible.

“But it’s not the first target in my mind.

“I want to feel good on ﷽the bike, and ride without 💟pain.

“This year is unpredictable, anything can hapﷺpen.”

Bautista gives injury update

The 39-year-old ar🗹rived at Cremona nursing his own injuries.

Bautista fractured a rib at the previous WSBK round but, unlike Razga🍎tlioglu and Jonathan Rea, has been passed fit in Cremona.

He was sixth-fas🐟test in the second practice session on Friday, which Alex Lowes topped.

“I feel good,” Bautista insisted. “The best way to forget everything is to ride the bike, especially i🍃f you have a good feeling.

“The morning ✱was good. I didn🐻’t start aggressively.

“Normally, I wouldn’t have gone out onto the track but today it was important for the feel🍨ing and the feedback.

“I felt not real paℱin, but some difficulties in the left braking corners.

“But from the first to last lap, it was better and bett𒁃er. Less pain, easier to rid꧃e.

“With more force, [my condition] was not worse.

“I am really hap🐓py with the feeling that I had today. We weren’t focused on perfor💧mance, just on the feedback.

“I💜t is 12 days since my crash, my injury. Ribs are not easy to recover.

“I felt more problems with ligaꦯments than the bones. The bad feeling I had was due to the muscle than the bone.”

He added: “Let’s see how I wake up tomorrow.”