Portimao WorldSBK: Alvaro Bautista executes tyre strategy to perfection for victory, Jonathan Rea left ‘disappointed’

Unfortunate to miss out on victory in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Superpole race as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu delivered one of the performances of the season, Bautista was not to be denied as he claimed a very 🔯important win in his bid to become world cham🐼pion.
Seen as a round that was supposed to favour Razgatlioglu and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonathan Rea, Ba🏅utista instead ✱lost one point to the Yamaha rider over the course of the weekend, while gaining points on Rea in every race.
After spending several laps watching Razgatliog༺lu and Rea during the opening stages, Bautista made his way through to the lead with just over half-race distance complete.
Setting a very hot pace knowing he’s traditionally kinder on his tyres, Bautista’s charge was too much for Rea to handle as the six-time world champion began to suffer with tyre degradation with eight l꧂aps to go - the same happened to Razgatlioglu with four laps to go.
Asked about his incredible straight line speed, Bautista was quick to deny that being the main reason for his win: “Yeah but ෴at the end there is only one straight on the track. I’m so happy because I did a good start and ൲I stayed in the front group,” Bautista told WorldSBK.com in parc ferme.
“At one point I saw Jonathan [Rea] get the lead and Toprak [Razgatlioglu] stayed 🎃be𒈔hind him so I thought that maybe Toprak had more than him because the lap time was not too fast like yesterday or like this morning, I thought Toprak was saving the tyre.

“I thought if I take the lead [of the race] and put a faster pace then I can m𝔉ake the others use more the tyre. I did it and at that moment I saw Toprak was behind me.
“He was 🎉very close but maybe he had less tyre and at the end he struggled a little bit more than me. More than the victory, I’m so happy because of the way we won.”
Rea’s winless WorldSBK streak continues
A round that has been his most successful on the Superbike cal⛦endar, Portimao was ultimately a disappointing weekend for Rea, who was beaten by both Bautista and Razgatlioglu in all three race๊s.
Without a win since Estoril in May, Rea added: "I can’t grumble too much. I gave it 🉐my all and honestly I’m a bit disappointed with the weekend because I thought I could get back and get some race wins under my belt, especially as I have so much support𓆉 here, so thanks to everyone back home for coming out.
"My team wꩲorked hard all weekend to give me a bike to try and fight with. I was there, I was enjoying the fight, but as soon as Alvaro got the lead he was gone.
"Well done to Alvaro and Ducati 𝐆and well d🌺one to Toprak, he hung in there and I was just the best of the rest today."