Scott Redding was t🐲he top Ducati rid🌠er on day-one of World Superbike action at Donington - two places ahead of team-mate Michael Rinaldi. 

And while P5 wasn’t a bad start on his first WorldSBK visit to⛎ Donington, it was a day in which Redding felt ‘erratic’ and not ‘consistently smooth’. 

"Yeah I feel okay; I just don’t feel consistently smooth. I feel a litꦦtle; maybe erratic is the word, like I’m not able to make the lap time as𒁃 I want, as easy as I want," said Redding. 

"🌳But it’s also track conditions. Grip seems to be a little bit low and it’s one of those circuits with so many different types of corners - off-camber, bumpy, over crest, it’s always changing a lot the feeling of the bike. It just took me a while. 

"This💞 morning I went out and I was all over the place and had to really take a few steps back to settle in.✨ 

"This afternoon was better but we💙’re still looking to get the set-up to make the bike a bit easier for me to ride." 

The Ducati rider said there wasn’t anything specific holding him back in terms of pace and comfort, but ins🧔tead, consistency was required. 

Redding also pointed to Donington be♛ing a track less suited to the Ducati and more to Yamaha and Kawasaki’ liking.

"For 🌠me it’s consistency. When we see the ide🌞al time, I was like three or four tenths faster if I put my sectors together, but I wasn’t able to do that," added Redding.  

"This is a Yamaha track in my opi𒆙nion, ℱit’s quite flowing for a Yamaha and Kawasaki. 

"They have that kind of pi⛎ck-up and go advantage. I don’t think it’s all negative for us, I think we have a pac♊kage that can definitely fight for the podium."