Alvaro Bautista ‘not super happy’ but fastest as high winds mean ‘nothing’ learned
Alvaro Bautista admits day-one of the Dutch WorldSBK round will have very little beari🤪ng on the rest o🍬f the weekend.
Despite finishing fastest, two-time WorldSBK champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista was not completely thrilled.
Damp patches and heavy winds meant an accurate assessment of where everyone stands wa♛s hard to make.
But the factory Ducati rider did claim to have a similar feeling as Barcelona, which could bode well for Bautista, who won Race 2 at the Catalan ro🅷und.
“With the weather it was very hard here,” began Bautista. “With the rain, the wind; the in the afternoon was too s📖trong and in the back straight, when you came out of the paddock zone you 🃏could just feel the wind.
“I had to do the strai🐟ght with lean [angle] otherwise I would h🍌ave gone out of the track. It was really difficult in some areas of the track.
“But at least i🌞n this condition I found good feedback with the bike, similar to Barcelona. It was difficult🃏 for everybody.
“I’m not super happy but at least we are quite good. We will see tomorrow what the weat🐼her is doing.”
Asked w𒈔hat he could learn on a day w🐻here limited grip and dry track time was on offer, Bautista said not much.
“Nothing, because the reference from the previous years can’t be used,” added ♚the𝓀 Spaniard. “The track needs to have more rubber.
“Even in the morning, if we had almost the whole se𒉰ss⛄ion dry but the grip was low. In the afternoon, it was similar.
“Between FP1 and FP2 it rained a lot and the small rubbe꧑r put down disappeared. So in the afternoon we had the same c🌱onditions.
“The o🍌nly difference in the afternoon was that I was using the tyres I normally like and I felt comfortable, but in these conditions it is difficult to make two laps with the same liꦜne because the wind pushed you out in many areas. It’s difficult to learn something.”
Conditions aside, Bautista wasಌ fast and consistent which was also the case in Barcelona.
But one area Bautista will want that to carry over to 🦋is Superpole, which has been his weakness so far in 2024.
Bautista said: “S༒uperpole is always important because you get a position for the grid and this year it is [more] important to get a good position at the beginning.&n🧸bsp;
“The lap tim𒈔es are very close and you cannot recover the gap. The Superpole has not been our strong point so far this season.
“I struggled with the 𝐆feeling in the first two rounds. Let’s see here. We have to try and adapt to the conditions on the track.”
