San Juan WorldSBK: Alvaro Bautista victorious, calls Toprak Razgatlioglu move ‘very strange, risky’

Alvaro Bautista has taken another step closer to his maiden WorldSBK title after winning race one in San Juan, despite nearly being wiped out on the first lap by Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Alvaro Bautista, Ducati WorldSBK San Juan
Alvaro Bautista, Ducati WorldSBK San Juan

Bautista took the lead of the race on the opening lap after breezing past Razgatlioglu and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea on the back-straight. 

But too k📖een to respond, Razgatlioglu made a rash move to 🦹the inside of the Ducati rider and with it lost the front-end of his Yamaha R1.

The reigning world champion came very close to clipping Bautista, w𝔍ho instead had to sit up and lose three places as a result. 

Speaking about his wi🐲n and the near-miss, Bautista sa𓆏id: “I felt very lucky today because in the first lap when Toprak crashed he nearly hit me. I was so lucky there! 

“After that I needed a couple of laps to understand what was happening because it was very, v🌜ery strange that in the first lap he did this kind of action. It was very risky. 

“But in any case, after tha🍃t, I just tried to be focused and not think that Toprak was out or something like that. Just to be focused on my riding and my bike, try to get the feeling and try to get the pace. 

“After three laps I started to feel more comfortable on the bike a⛎nd push a bit more the pace. I felt that my pace was maybe a couple of tenths faster than t♚he rest so I tried to get to the lead.”

Rea heaps praise on ‘untouchable’ Bautista after dominant WorldSBK win

Unlike 2019, cracks in ﷽the Ducati🦂 rider’s armour have been far and few between, with the Spaniard instead showing more consistency than anyone.

In total control of the race while Rea was busy trying to fend off 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Axel Bassani in their inte🀅nse race-long battle for second, Bautista eventually won by five secon📖ds.

Rea did manage t🐻o show impressive late race pace, however, the Kawasaki rider was unable to deliver the same lap times as Bautista when the series leader put the hammer down after five laps. 

Jonathan Rea, Argentinian WorldSBK, 22 October
Jonathan Rea, Argentinian WorldSBK, 22 October

"Yeah I’m really happy with that one because my team worked tirelessly throughout th𒊎e weekend to try and piece together the jigsaw of tyres, chassis 🐓balance and they gave me a really good bike," said a happy Rea. 

"When Alvaro got to the front I was quite happy ♚to sit behind Bassani, but when Alvaro came past, woah! - he had such a pace that he was just going away. 

"Unfortunately I just got stuck behind𝔉 Bassani and couldn’t pass. He was just too st♛rong in a few key areas of the track. 

"But I could just bide my time and plot [an overtake]. I could do my rhyth🧸m [after that] but Alvaro was gone. He was untouchable today."

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