Alvaro Bautista unusually crashed four times in the two-day Misano WorldSBK te𒆙st.

Ultimately the reigning champion took advantage of a dry patch on an 🐻otherwise wetꦗ day to finish fourth-fastest on Friday, despite three falls.

Yet he insisted that he is content with the latest learnings from his Ducati Panigal𝓰e V4 R ahead of the next round of the 🌸championship.

“The morning crash was strange,” Bautist♊a sa▨id about Friday.

“I thought I was on SCX, but I was on🌄 SC0. The feeling was, s**t, no?

“So, maybe I forced it more than I had t💮o, and I crashed.

“But then they to🉐ld me that I was faster on the SC0!

“The second cras🍸h was at the last 🎐corner when it was wet. I lost the front passing over a patch.

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

He later got sucked into the corner of Turn 14 and tumbled for the f♊ourth time overall.

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

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

“I am happ𓂃y, especially with the engine characteristics that we resolved here.”

He said about hi🦋s setup: “I think the situation is the same. We have worked well on engine behaviour.

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

Bautista is considering whether to ride on, or to retire inꦑ 2025.

“My priority is to think about the Misano race an💞d to do our best,” he said. “I think after Misano I will take a decis🥀ion.”