San Juan WorldSBK: Alvaro Bautista victorious, calls Toprak Razgatlioglu move ‘very strange, risky’
Bautista took the lead of the race on the opening lap after breezing past Razgatlioglu and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonathan Rea on the back-straight.
But too keen to respond, Razgatlioglu made a rash move෴ to the inside of the Ducati rider and with it lost the front-end of his Yamaha R1.
The reigning world champion came very close to 💯clipping Bautista, who instead had to sit uꦰp and lose three places as a result.
Speaking about his win and the near-miss, Bautista🦹 said: “I felt very lucky today b♍ecause in the first lap when Toprak crashed he nearly hit me. I was so lucky there!
“After that I needed a couple of laps to understand what was happening because it was very♎, very strange that in the💛 first lap he did this kind of action. It was very risky.
“But in any case, after ꦯthat, I just tried to be focused and not think that Toprak was out or something like that. Just t🦋o be focused on my riding and my bike, try to get the feeling and try to get the pace.
“After three laps I started to feel more comfortable on the bike and push a ওbit more the pace. I felt that my pace was maybe a couple of tenths faster than the res♎t so I tried to get to the lead.”
Rea heaps praise on ‘untouchable’ Bautista after dominant WorldSBK win
Unlike 2019, cracks in the Ducati rider’s armour have been far and few between, with the Spaniard instead showing more co♛nsistency than anyone.
In total control of the race while Rea was busy trying to fend off 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Axel Bassani in their intense race-long battle for second, Bautista 🔜eventually won by five seconds.
Rea did manage to show impressive late race pace, however, the Kawasaki rider was unable to deliver the same lapඣ times as Bautista when the series leader put the hammer down after five laps.
"Yeah I’m really happy with that one because my team worked tirelessly throughout the weekend to try and p🦂iece together the jigsaw of tyres, chassis balance and they gave me a really good bike," said a happy Rea.
"When Alvaro got to ꦦthe front I was quite happy to sit behind Bassani, but when Alvaro came past, w💯oah! - he had such a pace that he was just going away.
"Unfortunately I just got stuck behind Bassani and couldn’t pass. He was just too strong in a few key areas oไf the track.
"But I could just bide my time and plot [an overtake]. I could do my rhythm [after that] bꦇut Alvaro was gon🌠e. He was untouchable today."
