Af꧋ter achieving his best qualifying result in WorldSBK, B👍assani then made is way to the lead of the race by overtaking Andrea Locatelli.

But just a lap later Bassani had a huge wobble com𝓀ing out of turn two which put him on the bไackfoot.

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The Italian lost three places as Locatelli, Alvaro Bautista and Toprak Razgatlioglu all swooped through.&🌟nbspꦫ;

"Not the race we wanted," Bassanജi told WorldSBK.com. "I started🌼 well but after two laps, the feeling with the bike wasn’t the same as free practice. I started to have a lot of problems with the front tyre. 

"I tried to m🎃a🐭nage to finish the race. The feeling wasn’t good. I don’t know. Now we will try to understand why. 

"The bike was the same as practice, the ty🗹res w🐟ere the same. We’ll look at the data and try to understand what we can do tomorrow. 

"I think we have the potential for a podium. We are🧸 really fast. We wil🅰l try to start Sunday with a good feeling and battle for the podium."

Managing to avoid a similar slide to Bassani, fellow Italian rider Locatelli was a contender for the podium ea🌞rly on before failing to match the pace of Bautista, Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea.

The Yamaha rider put in a good performanc𓆉e considering he felt as thou💎gh a wrong tyre choice was made. 

Locatelli said: "Maybe the choice of tyres we made for to🦩day was wrong because I started to fe🧸el a lot of closing and pushing on the left, because this track has a lot of chicanes. 

"It was good race, P4, and not too far from the podium. Maybe, t🃏omorrow, we can get the podium especially in the Superpole Race. 

"We can be strong for 10 laps and then we will see, but we need to be happy because it’s my first time here at Imoဣl💙a with this bike. 

"Battling with Bautista and Toprak is one target we can have. Tomorrow, I would like to fight. I t𓄧hink we have a good chance to fight with them."