Alvaro Bautista: “Without the red flag I could have fought for victory”
Alvaro Bautista believes a last-lap showdown between himself and Toprak R﷽azgatl🦄ioglu could have been incoming at Assen.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista believes victory could have been his in Race 1 of the Assen WorldSBK round without a red flag.
An oil spill with seven laps remaining resulted in🐽 Race 1 being cut short, giving WorldSBK debutant Nicholas Spinelli a shock win after he chose t✅o run intermediate tyres while most of the grid elected for slicks despite a very wet track at the start of the race.
The final two sectors were dry throughout, but Spinel൩li gained enough time on the wet sections to create a big lead.
B🦄autista and Toprak Razgatliogl🐻u closed in rapidly with eight laps to go, but the red flag soon came out.
Discussing the mental challenges of Race 1, Bautista said: “We had to switch our minds every lap. The first section was a bit too wet and the last two were completely dry so we had to switch every🦂 lap. In the first corner you haܫd to take it easy and relax.
“Then, when you passed the back straight you just pushed at 120%. But the problem was that sometimes when you♓ arrived at the first corner after push🗹ing, it was like ‘ah s**t’ because it was wet. It has been a really challenging race.
“Also, in the beginning it was crazy because everybody that was in front was d♓iscovering the track so all the guys behind them could push them and pass each other. I enjoyed the race a lot.
𝓰“I think that without the red ꦿflag I could have fought for the victory until the end. But these things can happen.
“I’m happy with my performance even though we couldn’t work on the bike in practice because o𓆏f the conditions. But it was the same for everybody.”
Bautista ad🌳mitted Spinelli was lucky, but that sometimes in racing yꩲou need luck to be on your side for such surprising results.
Bautista began by saying: “Wel🌸l, when I saw him get past on the inside at corner three and four, touching the knee on the ground and passing six or seven riders, I thought ‘okay, he has rain tyres’ because it is impossible to do with th🐓e slick.
“But at the same time I thought that maybe he didn’t understandꦿ these tyres and just pushed like on slicks.
“I thought that we could catch him after mid-race. It’s true that the first part was too wet and it took a long time to become dry. I expected it to🅠 dry quicker.
“Even in the last few laꦜps there was just one dry line. So yo𒈔u could not make any mistakes.
“He was lucky that the red ﷺflag came, bu𝐆t also it is important to have luck to win some races.”
