After qualifying down in 11th place, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista was then dropped to P14 ahead of the race after being given a th♔ree-place grid penalty for ‘slow ridin♚g’ in qualifying.

The two-time WorldSBK champion was quiet in the opening stages before finding his rhythm which led to him seething his way through the second group.&nb🅠sp;

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Once Bautista overtook Danilo Petrucci and Michael Van Der Mark, thܫe Spaniard quickly latched onto the rear of Andrea Iannone before taking P3 away from the GoEleven rider.

“It’s never eaꦉsy, especially because this track is so complicated to push from the beginning<” said Bautista post-race.

“You have to manage the tyres. I was in the situation that I wanted to push more in the first laps to gain some poꦚsitions but, at the same time, I had to save the tyres.

“I tried t⛦o keep calm, to manage the tyre as well as posꦅsible. Behind the other riders, the big group, I had some problems with the front as it overheated.

ꩵ“I didn’t have good turning an🍷d I had to save some slides with my elbow; fortunately, I could save everything.

“Aꦬt the mid-race point, many riders were coming to me, and I think third was the maximum I could do.”

Bautista said the biggest challenge when following other riders was not b🐼eing able to do ‘the lines I wanted’.

On severa🌳l occasions it appeared as though Bautista was losing front g𝔍rip when following riders ahead of him.

However, quick overtakes followed on most of the riders around him which ℱgave him the chance to secure a double podium for the ♋factory Ducati team.

Bautista added: “Whe𝄹n you are behind the other riders, the front tyre doesn’t work as expec🅘ted and I struggled to brake hard or enter fast into corners.

“I lost it many times behind other riders because I can’t d🃏o the lines I wanted to.

“I spent some time behind him, but I do💟n’t think that if I passed him quic🍌ker, I could’ve got to second place.

“I think our best was to get a podium, but this was a🍎 surprise for me.”