Phillip Island is not a circuit where aggressive battles are a rarity, and in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Race 1 on Saꦐturday it was Alvaro Bautista and Scott Redding who delivered one of the most intense d✅uels.

For Bauꦏtista, Race 1 in Phillip Island saw him back on the podium having missed out in all three races in the final r♋ound of 2024 at Jerez; while Redding’s podium-contending ride resulted in fifth: his best result since he was fourth in the Superpole Race at Magny-Cours last September.

“I fought a little bit with Scott [Redding] that was too aggressive but at the end I was able to gඣet some distance,” Bautista told WorldSBK.com.

He clarified: “Not aggressive, but he [Redding] tried, for𒅌 sure, to be there because he’s strong here, maybe, with the strong⭕ wind [because] big riders have more strength on the bike and they can move the bike a bit better.

“I struggle a little bit more.

“He did a really good race because he started very 🐈well and he stayed there all the time.

“But when he was in front of me he was slower, so I think he was fast bec🔯ause he had the reference, but he battled very well.”

Redding himself des𒆙cribed the battle with Bauജtista as “tasty”, and “good, clean racing”.

“It was tasty, that one [with Ba🧸utista],” he told WorldSBK.com.

“It was nice. Being able to overtake people again and to♏ race in a way that I’m able to race, and I was having a lot of fun.

“I was pushing a lot because at the moment they are a bit faster than me so I was trying to ad🍰apt and learn in the moment, and w♏hen you make a step with the speed there’s a lot of things changing.

“Then I said ‘Okay, come🅺 on, we fight a little bit with꧅ them’.

“Then Alvaro [Ba🎐utista] came under quite aggressive, and I said ‘Okay, take a breath, we go racing againꦇ’.

“It was nice. It was good, clean racing.”