Alvaro Bautista provides update on retirement plan amid Ducati temptation

Alvaro Bautista provides a hint about 2026 plans

Alvaro Bautista
Alvaro Bautista

Alvaro Bautista is again faced with the decis🥃ion of when to walk away.

The former 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbikes champion opted to delay retirem🙈ent last year, and returned for 2025.

Hꦕe is a respectable fourth in the WorldSBK standings after three rounds, heading to Crem𒊎ona this weekend.

But his teammate Nicolo Bulega, last year’s championship runner-up and current leader, had usurped Bautista as Duc🍸ati’s top man.

The question again arises of when Bautista, aged 40, will call it🦩 quits.

“I am really enjoying this year more than last🌌 year,” he said in Cremona.

“At the end what is important 🔴for me is to keep enjoying my racing.

“Next yea🅠r we have a new Ducati bike coming, and for the moment I feel like🏅 I would like to ride that bike, but still nothing to speak about.

“The atmosphere is good in the team but there is no news yet.🍃"

Alvaro Bautista on unique Cremona challenge

Bautista has experienced 🦋a roᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚllercoaster campaign while teammate Bulega has battled Toprak Razgatlioglu.

He said: "It's been an extreme start to the season, sometimes on the podium, but also three races without points; so it's not easy to recover from these three mistakes, but we have to move forward, and the important 𒈔thing is that the feeling with the bike is much better than last year.

“Here at Cremona, it is a new leaf because it is a unique track,🌼 and most of us don't have much experience here, we only started 💛racing here last year for most of us.

“I feel like I have more of a margin from last year and that I don't have to always be on the l🅘imit like last year. In Australia, it was a mistake from me because I didn't feel the wind changing.

“At Portimao it wasn't my fault, then at ღAssen I felt like I could be faster than the group I was in and made the move I was trying to make wrong and made a mistake.”

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