Bautista finished the Malaysian MotoGP in 17th, however, it wasn’t withou꧙t reason as the WorldSBK champion br🎐ought to light an injury he’s been dealing with.

The Spaniard crashed at the post-season test in Jerez, hurting his neck and collarbone in ꦬthe process. 

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“It hasn’t been an easy week✅end; I’m not using excuses but after the last WorldSBK race, we did a test and I crashed,” Bautista told MotoGP.com. 

“I hurt my neck and collarbone. I felt pain but after two or three days, it disappeared. However, here from FP1, I felt like I 𝓡didn’t have enough power in my left arm. 

“I worked with the physiotherapist but it didn’t improve. It got worse and wor🅰se day by day and I was struggling a lo📖t to make force with it.

“My crew chief,♕ checking the data compared to other Ducati riders, said ‘why are you so fast like the others in the right-hand cor🙈ners but you lose almost one second in the left corners?’ but the reality is that I couldn’t ride how I wanted. 

“Again, it’s not an excuse; I’m very angry with myself ⛎because I couldn’t enjoy my riding at 100%. 

“The good t𝓡hing is that the championship is done; I’ll go back to Spain and have a check on why I lost the powe🧸r and try to get better in the winter.”

Bautista’s rivals expected him to be in contention for big points over the course of the weekend, but with the 38-year-old dealing with differ𒁏ent injuries, it comes as no surprise that he was below par

Bautista said the injuries were 90%🥃 of the issue and that the rest was trying to adapt to MotoGP machinery again.. 

“This was 90% of the problem,♒” began Bautista. “The other 10% was the confidence and the setup; with this problem though, what youဣ do with the bike is difficult to understand. 

“I couldn’t push or do my best so it’s a bit frustrating that having this chance, I ca💟n’t use it.”