Bassani's struggles were a big surprise as he couldn’t manage better than P19 come the end of Friday practice a🔯t the Spanish rou🔜nd.

As expected, Bassani improved as the weekend went on but it ꧋wasn’t the tꦜype of performance he was happy with after being towards the sharp end in recent races.

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Without his 🍬crew chief for the weekend, Bassani eventualꦆly found a good rhythm in Race 2 as he claimed fifth.

Speaking about his weekend, Bass🍒ani said: “It was impossible for me to have a good feeling with the bike, I had no feeling with the fron🐼t on corner entry, it was closing every time. 

“In Race 2, I tried to arrive to the end to get good p🔯oints from the Championship. We tried a lot of things. 

“After a weekend l🧸ike this, it's a really good result but I want to battle for the podium, not the top five. 

“Without my crew chie♓f, it was difficult to work and I missed a really important person in my box, maybe the most important person in the box. 

“It was difficult to explain to the guys in the box what I feel. I hope he's with us at Portimao and we work normally. This weekend was𒅌n't a normal one as we didn't do the test, this track isn't my best and we were without a chief engineer."

From one D𓃲ucati rider to ꦓanother, Philipp Oettl had one of his strongest weekend’s of the year as he claimed three top eight results.

However, it’s not likely🦹 to be enough to stay with Ducati as Andrea Iannone is expected t𝔉o replace him at GoEleven Ducati.

Wit💞h no 𝕴concrete plans for 2024 as of yet, Oettl added: "After the summer break, we had three top ten finishes and now we just work calmly. 

"I have a lot of pressure because I don’t have a job for next year. I feel very free because I will find something good. It’s a very interesting period bec♏ause it’s very late in the season to have noth🥂ing. 

"There’s a l⛄ot of talk but there’s nothing. I don’t know where I go. On one side, you can say it’s a very unsure future but in the summer brea🐼k I was thinking a lot about the mindset, and I think I found something that helped me. 

"For me, it was clear there was a rider change for next year. I understand them and now I focus🦋 on myself. 

"I’ll try to get results to try and be interesting to some other adventure or 🐬teams. My main target is to stay in WorldSBK and I would like to find a competitive seat."