Alvaro Bautista struggles at Jerez: ‘I felt a lot of pain in my neck and back’
The two-time WorldSBK champion admitted day one of the Jerez test did not go to plan after sufferiဣng with pain in his neck and back.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista was not his usual self on day one of the Jerez WorldSBK test, asﷺ pain in his neck and back reduced him to only a P10 finish.
The factory Ducati star has recently recovered from an injury at the tai💯l end of last season, which impacted his MotoGP wildcard at Sepang.
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And although he’s over the worst of his injury, it caused the Spaniard a bit of discomfort as he𓄧 att🐲empted to iron out ballast concerns at Jerez.
Speaking to WorldSBK.com, Bautista said: “It’s not been the best day for 🎉me. I struggled a lot during this winter. I had a lot of pain in my injury after the Sepang race. I was really bad.
“I cannot have good training and I was working hard with my physiotherapist to 🍨recover. It wasn’t easy because November and December, I was almost with pain all day. I didn’t feet improvement.
“I started to feel better in the last two weeks, and I started to work more on myself. Riding the bike in the morning, the str♏ength in my arm was really good, but the problem was in my neck and back.
“I felt a lot of pain. I was really worried but, fortunately, lap after lap, it felt better so I got more relaxed, and I could do a lot of laps but not with my best perform🦄ance. I was thinking more about the pain tha🌠n riding the bike.”
Bautista has already admitted that work to iron out how much weight will be needed to reach the new ri🅠der-bike weight limit has begun.
Bautista is one of the lightest riders on the grid and Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall’Igna hiꦛnted at six kilos needing to be added to the weight༺ of his bike.
“We did the job b🍨ecause, after the test last year, we decided to have two different bikes regarding the weight distrib🐼ution,” added Bautista.
“I could compare both bikes and it was very clear which direction we’ll take for t🤡he future. I’m happy about that and I’m happy f💮or the feeling I have with the bike.
“I don’t know how much weight I’ve added. The engineers know how much and know where to add it. I don’t have t✤hese kinds of details. I just tell them if it’s better or worse. I🃏 don’t know! You’ll have to ask Giulio Nava or Marco Zambenedetti.
“It’s much worse to ride because, with more weight, you have more inertia, so it’s more difficult to turn in the corners and stop the bike. It’s more physical and all the areas ♌are worse.”