Wind, cold affects Alvaro Bautista at Assen, setup changes “didn’t work”

Alvaro Bautista s༺ays he was affected by colder, windier co🦋nditions in WorldSBK Race 2 at Assen compared to Race 1.

Alvaro Bautista, 2025 Dutch WorldSBK, podium. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Alvaro Bautista, 2025 Dutch WorldSBK, podium. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Two-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista made a “positive”🌳 summary of his Sunday at the Dutch WorldSBK, despite being affected by cooler temperatures and higher winds in Race 2 compared to Saturday’s Race 1.

Sunday began wet at Assen, and the Aruba.it Racing Ducati rider was able to finish third behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu and Sam Lowes. In Race 2, he looked set for third place again, but a late retirement for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nicolo Bulega promoted him to second.

“Overall it has been a positive Sunday for us because in the Superpole Raꦛce I was able to manage th🍨e situation and understand how the track conditions were,” Bautista said.

“We were quite good to man🍃age it and finishing in third position was really good, especially after yesterday’s crash – today it was important to finish the races.

“In Race 2, the conditions were a bit different from [Saturday]: it was much cooler and muc🦂h more windy, ౠso it wasn’t easy.

“Fortunately I did a good start, so I took the lead, but sudd🥀enly I felt not the same confidence as [Saturday] in dry conditions andಌ I just tried to survive, I tried to not make mistakes, I tried to end the race as [well] as possible.”

Bautista admitted that his second place in Race 2 was slightly artifi𝐆cial, having benefitted from Bulega’s retirement when the Italian was leading, and said that some setup changes made before Race 2 “didn’t work”.

“To be realistic, today we were third because Nicolo [Bulega] had a technical problem but he was faster than everybody,” Bautis𝄹ta said.

“Then, Locatelli did an amazi🔯ng job, an amazing race, a𒁏nd his pace was really good, and for me I didn’t have the confidence with the bike so today I didn’t feel that I can push.

“It’s true that also we tried some small changes 🉐on the setup to try to use them in this condition with more cold and more wind, but it didn’🌱t work.

“So, I’m happy because at the end at least we can end both races, in very different [conditions]. I hope to keep this tendeꦗncy for the next races and try to not miss more the Saturday race.”

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