2023-05-07 16:52:54
Álvaro Bautista has been totally unbeatable from start to finish. He has had no rival all weekend in the round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He has carried free practice and qualifying and the three races under his arm without the slightest resistance. His only brief fight was with Toprak Razgatlioglu in Race 2, but he disposed of him as he pleased.
Bautista’s hat-trick has been anthological, and he himself admits it: “it’s been brilliant”, comments the pilot from Talavera after finishing a unique weekend: “It has been perfect because we have won all three races. Each race has been different. This morning in Superpole I got a bit scared in the last three laps because it started to rain”, admits.
The advantage over their opponents has been abysmal. In the first of the races on Saturday, he came to take 8.8 seconds from Razgatlioglu on the Panigale V4 R. In today’s Superpole Race 2.1 seconds, and for the last header of the weekend in Race 2, 8.5 seconds also to the Turk. A vast superiority despite the fact that the weekend began with bad news: the snip of 250 fewer laps to the Ducati (also for the rest of the pilots). Bautista has been unstoppable.
He mentions that in the Superpole Race “it was raining too much in the first sector, in the next lap in sector three, in the next four and two… Leading the race was quite critical because you didn’t know how much rain to expect”, commented the Ducati pilot, who admits having been “discovering the track with each lap and believe me, it was the longest three laps of my life”.
And almost full, because with this hat-trick that Bautista has already won 11 of the 12 races that have been held this season. In addition, last year he already repeated his feat on the same Catalan track: “It may not be my house or my garden, but I feel very much on this track”, he confesses. “I have always been very fast here in my 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP days”, he reveals. Now she just waits”have the same sensations in the next rounds”.
In general, he ended up happy, with very good feelings: “I have enjoyed every lap, especially in Spain because it is special. I am very happy with my performance”. A few rounds after the start Bautista He already has the rhythm, the bike and enough preparation to start smelling the world revalidation.
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In addition, the general classification remains led by Álvaro Bautista, who leaves even more easily after an excellent hat-trick; 1st with 236 points. Behind Razgatlioglu he manages to add a significant amount of points to his roster, 2nd with 167. Meanwhile, Locatelli continues to be 3rd with 133, and Rea, further and further behind, 4th with 100 points. We will not see the Superbikes roar again until the next round, the fifth on the calendar, the Pirelli Emilia-Romagna from June 2 to 4 in Italy.
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