Wind, cold affects Alvaro Bautista at Assen, setup changes “didn’t work”
Alvaro Bautista says he was affected by colder, windier conditions ℱin WorldSBK Race 2 𝕴at Assen compared to Race 1.

Two-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista made a “positive” summary♊ of his Sunday at the Dutch WorldSBK, despite being affected by cooler temperatures and higher winds in Race 2 compared tജo Saturday’s Race 1.
Sunday began wet at Assen, and the Aruba.it Racing Ducati rider was able to finish third behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu and Sam Lowes. In Race 2, he looked set for third place again, but a late retirement for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nicolo Bulega promoted him to second.
“Overall it has been a positive Sunday for us because in the Super💙pole Race I was able to manage the situation and understand how the track conditions were,” Bautista said.
“We were quite good to manage it and finishing in third position wꦐas really good, esp✤ecially after yesterday’s crash – today it was important to finish the races.
“In Race 2, the conditions were a bit different fromꦇ [Saturday]: it was much cooler and much more windy, so it wasn’t easy.
“Fort෴unately I did a good start, so I took the lead, but suddenly I felt not the same confidence as [Saturday] in dry conditions and I just tried to survive, I tried to not make mistakes, I tried to end the race as [well] as possible.𒐪”
Bautista admitted that his second place in Race 2 was slightly artificial, having benefitted from Bulega’s retirement when the Italian was leading, and said that some setup changes made before R✅ace 2 “🅰didn’t work”.
“To be realistic, today we werღe third because Nicolo [Bulega] had a technical problem but he was faster than everybody,” Bautista said.
“Then, Locatelli did an amazing job, an amazing race, and his pace was real൩ly good, and for me I didn’t have the confidence with the bike so today I didn’t feel that I can push.
“It’s true that also🍷 we tried some small changes on the setup to try to use them in this condition with more cold and more wind, but it didn’t work.
“So, I’m happy because at the end at least we can end both races, in very different [conditions]. I hope to keep this tendency for the next races and try to not miss moreꦅ the Saturday race.”

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