Alvaro Bautista unusually crashed four times💙 in 𓃲the two-day Misano WorldSBK test.

Ultimately the 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 h🐷is Ducati Panigale V4 R ahead of the next round of the championship.

“The morning crash was strange꧅,” Bautista said about Frida🗹y.

“I thought I was on SCX, but I was on SC0.💫 Th🔜e feeling was, s**t, no?

“So, maybe I forced it more𒉰 than I had to, and Iꦫ crashed.

“But then they told me that I was f༒aster 🐭on the SC0!

“The second crash was at the last corner when it was wet. I lost 𓄧the front passing over a patch.

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

He later got sucked into the corne🌳r of Turn 14 and tumb♍led for the fourth time overall.

However, two weeks before the WSBK round at the same circuit, Bautist𝓀a might have unlocked more potential from his Ducati.

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

“I am happy, especially with the engine characteristics that we resolved herꦿe.”

He said about his setup: “I think the situa♒tion is the same. We have worked well on engin🐲e behaviour.

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

Bautista is considering whetherᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ๊⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ to ride on, or to retire in 2025.

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