The factory Ducati rider starts the fin𒁃al round🧜 tied with outgoing champion Toprak Razgatlioglu on 14 race victories so far this year.

Whi♍le Bautista recovered from an FP1 spill at the newly-named Miller Corner (Turn 4) to get the upper hand over Razgatlioglu’s Yamaha, he was beaten to the top spot by Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea in both sessions.

“I had a small crash at Turn 4 this morning,” Bautista said. “I went a bit of🧜f of the line and I lost the front. The only thing is that I couldn’t finish the practice but fortunately, it was nothing serious.”

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As ever at Phillip Island, tyre endurance is sure to be a key issue in the full l😼ength races, providing the dry and sunn♓y conditions continue.

“Today, we had two new tyres from Pirelli so it was important to understand the tyres,” Bautista said. “💛In the morning I started with the B 🔯option; we did a few laps and I understood more or less the potential and the feeling with the bike.

“ This afternoon, we tried both tyres but in the first🅺 💯run, I tried the A solution and I felt quite comfortable, so we decided to keep working with this tyre because for me, it means a better feeling on the bike.

“In the end, it could beꦛ an option for the race if it doesn’t rain.

“I think it’s been a 🌸positive Friday because we worked on the pace, and I felt good on the bike.”

"I am happyꦓ because the race pace is incisive. I think we have a good base ahead of the races even though the weather conditions could mix thin🌼gs up starting from tomorrow.

“In any꧅ case, we are ready to race in any conditions.”

Razgatlioglu, who needs to fend off Rea to secure title runner-up, 168澳洲幸运5🐽官方开奖结果历史:was thir🌞d in FP1 and fourth in FP2.

Bautista’s team-mate Michael Rinaldi was tenth fastest💜.