The Aruba.it Ducati rider was third fastest in FP1 before spending large 🐻parts of FP2 on to💖p as he looks to keep his 100% WorldSBK win record in 2023 alive.

A late flurry of laps which saw himself and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu exchange top spot looked to have sealed Bautista’s place atop the leaderboard, before teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Ruben Rinaldi leapf𒁏rogged him with a time of 1:32.468s - 0.030s clear of Bautista.

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But despite missing out to his teammate, and suffering a crash early on in FP2 after due to a m🌠istake mid-corner at turn one, Bautista feels as though he’s where he needs to be ahead of Race 🎐1.

"I think last year we struggled a little bit in this track, but this year, especially from FP1 to FP2, we made some setup [changes] on the bike that worked well because of the layout, and the fact that ♐we don't have too much space on track," said Bautista.

"Sincerely, the feeling with the bike was good to☂day. I don't know, but I felt like I was riding so relaxed, so, so clean and not making a lot of mistakes. 

"On⛄e mistake that I did was in the first corner, I touched my gearbox lever and I put first in mid corner, so I just lost the front. 

"That was the only mistake, I'm a bit angry with myself foꦺr that, but the rest I'm happy with. The bike I think 🔯is working better than last year here. I feel good riding the bike this time on this track. I think tomorrow the track will be different.

"Last year, my best lap꧂ all weekend was 32.1. T♐oday I did 32.4 for three laps in a row. So this is the important thing. 

"No, I'm but tomorrow, everybody will improౠve the lap time. I just can't say that today with the situation of the truck we had.🗹 I felt good and also about lap times we were quite competitive."

Is Rinaldi ready to challenge the WorldSBK champion?

While Razgatlioglu and Jonatha💧n Rea can’t be ruled out, Rinaldi was quickest in both sessions and appears to be a real threat for victo🌊ry.

This comes after struggling to match Bautista througho🧜ut last season, although things hꦏave been very different so far in 2023, which the world champion believes is a product of having himself alongside the Italian. 

Speaking about his teammate, Bautista added: "I think Michael is very fast and I think to have me like a teammate helped him a lot because he can compare his data with my with my data and many times🎃 he used very similar setup as me because also like riding style we are very very similar and ♐like weight. 

"So I think it's very useful for for him to have me like a teammate. But also for me it's nice to have him so competitive because at the end the first rider you want to beat is your teammate. 💮;

♛"So for me it's more motivational because if I see him go fast I said okay I can🐷 go at least like he goes. So yeah I think it's good motivation for both to have competitive riders from the same box."