The reigning British Superbike champion was impressive th🌊roughout practice before delivering a sensဣational lap in Superpole.

But the Brit admitted he o🌠ut-qualified his true pace which was one of the reasons for him sliding down to 15th, as were issues with his𓂃 R1.

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A gear shifter resulted in another drop down the 🀅field in the Superpole Race, however, Ray delivered in Rac🍷e 2 by finishing ahead race winners Loris Baz and Scott Redding. 

"It was unbelievable," said Ray when talking to WorldSBK.com. "Obviously it was my first time here at Imola but it didn’t take me too long to🔜 get🏅 used to the track which was nice. 

"I’ve really strong all weekend but, honestly, the racing has b꧃een the most diffiꦫcult part for me this year. 

"I hadn’t been qualifying so well, so the races were difficult to try and make steps forward. I probably 𒁏out-qualified my pace that I had throughout the race 🥂and that’s why I dropped back. 

"We had a few issues in Saturday’s race that hindered me from going forwards. ꦅAlso, this morning in the🍸 Superpole Race we had a problem with the gear shifter. 

"It was nice to put 𒊎that to bed in Race 2 this afternoon and I knew that I had to ✱dig in during the first few laps." 

After coming under pressure from Baz, Ray iꦅnstead ꦇfound good pace during the closing laps in order to break away from the BMW rider, who instead came under threat from Redding.

Describing what it was like to be hunted down for several laps, Ray added: "I had plus three on my board in the last few lap💃s, so I just hit my markers. 

"I wasn’t very strong in the first sector but I knew 🥃that I was quite strong in the rest oไf the lap. 

"I just had to get past that and I knew tಞhat I co✤uld hold them off to the line."