Alvaro Bauti꧟sta unu💦sually crashed four times in the two-day Misano WorldSBK test.

Ultimately t🐟he reigning champion took advantage of a dry🐽 patch on an otherwise wet day to finish fourth-fastest on Friday, despite three falls.

Yet he insisted that he is content with the latest learnings from his Ducati Pani💃gale V4 R ahead of the next round of the championship.

“The morning c🅰rash was strange,” Bautista said about Friﷺday.

“I thought I was o♑n💟 SCX, but I was on SC0. The feeling was, s**t, no?

“So, maybe I forced it more thꦓan I had to, and I crash⛎ed.

“But then they told m෴e that I was faster on the SC0!

“The second cra🎃sh was at the last corner when it was wet. I lost the front passing over a patch.

“I didn’t expect it! Otherwise, not so bad!”

He later got sucked into the c❀orner of Turn 14 and ♔tumbled for the fourth time overall.

Howev🔯er, two weeks before the WSBK round at the same circuit, Bautista might have unlocked more potential from his Du🍒cati.

“I prefer the feeling on the race tyre,” he said.

“I am happy, especially with the engine characte♏ristics that we resolved 🎃here.”

He said about his setup: “I think the situation is the same. We have worked w🉐ell on engine behavi🌳our.

“We have not found aꦫnything for the setup, but I think what we have found in terms of the engine will help us a lot.”

Bautista is ﷽considering whe𒀰ther to ride on, or to retire in 2025.

“My priorܫity is to think about the Misano race and to do our best,” he said. “I think after Misano I will take a decision.”