The factory Ducati rider starts 💎the final round tied with outgo🍌ing champion Toprak Razgatlioglu on 14 race victories so far this year.

While Bautista recovered from an FP1 spill at the newly-named Miller Corner (Turn 4) to get the upper hand over Razgatlioglu’s Yamaha, h✃e was beaten to the top spot by Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea in both sessions.

“I had a small crash at Turn 4 this morning,” Bautista said. “I went a bit off of the line and I lost the front. The only thing is that I couldn’t finish the practice but fortunately, 🌳it was nothing serious.”

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As ever at Phillip Island, tyre endurance is sure to be a key issue in the full length races, providing the dry and sunny conditio♌ns continue.

“Today, we had two new tyres fro✃m Pirelli so it was important to understand the tyres,” Bautista said. “Iౠn the morning I started with the B option; we did a few laps and I understood more or less the potential and the feeling with the bike.

“ This afternoon, we tried both tyres but in the first run, I tried the A solution and I felt quite comfortable, so we decided to keep 💖work♋ing with this tyre because for me, it means a better feeling on the bike.

“In the ▨end, it could be an option for the race if it doesn’t rain.

“I think it’s been a positive Friday because we worked on the pace, and I felt good on the b🦄ike.”

"I am happy🏅 because the race pace is incisive. I think we have a good baౠse ahead of the races even though the weather conditions could mix things up starting from tomorrow.

“In any case, we are r🎐eady to race in any conditions.”

Razgatlioglu, who needs to fend off Rea to secure title runner-up, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:was third in FP1 and fourth in FP2.

Bautista’s team-mate Michael Ri🌠naldi was tenth fastest.