Now riding for the M💖otocorsa Ducati team after🍷 losing his factory seat to Nicolo Bulega, Rinaldi won’t be expected to achieve the same results as when he lined up alongside two-time WorldSBK champion Alvaro Bautista.

Rinaldi struggled ♌at times to deal with high expectations, but when he did put forward his best performance, the Italian was always a threat to the likes of Bautista, Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea.

• Bassaniဣ: “The best rider was Top🌠rak, expected more from Rinaldi” 
• Bautista: “ꦓToprak never made mistakes, his perfor✤mance was unbelievable”

But missing was consistency, which he hopes to have more of thanks to a different appr🏅oach next year.

Speaking to WorldSBK.com, Rinaldi said: “Something I would like to do ♔for the future because now it's too late [for ༒last season] is to approach the weekend in a calmer way. 

“I want an easy approach to hav♓e less pressure. That helped me in the last few rounds 🐻to improve my performance.”

Rinaldi was then asked about his 2023 campaign and which was his best moment, to which he answered: “Misano because it was special in front of my clos🎃est ones and we raced in yellow. It was a bit bittersweet in Race 2 because I was third and touched Toprak. But that’s part of the game and was my best weekend.”

A winner atꦆ Aragon, Rinaldi was just one of four riders that took victory in 2023, joining the three riders mentioned abovജe. 

But it could have been more had a re✨d flag not been deployed when he held a commanding lead at Mandalika.

Discussing his happiest and saddest moment of the year, Rinaldi🐬 saidܫ: “The win in Aragon because 2022 without a win and in 2023 we were back on top of the podium. Mandalika was the worst moment when I was leading the race by four seconds but then they put out the red flag and I didn’t have new tyres for the restart of the race.”