A tyre gamble paved the way for a strong fightback by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista during Saturday's opening 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:WorldSBK race at Donington Park.

The reigning double world champion was left 11th on the grid after losing his be🐷st qualifying lap - good enough for a place on the second row - due to trac🧸k limits.

But despite not doing more than ten laps on the soft re✱ar tyre, Bautista and Ducati decided to roll the dice in the hottest temperatures of th⛄e weekend so far.

It paid off and the Spanish star carved through to third place, behind BMW's Topra💛k Razgatlioglu and Kawasaki's Alex Lowes.

"It was not easy," said Bautista. "Starting from the back is always difficult, especially at this track where th🀅෴ere are not many places to overtake.

"I did a gamble and used the 🎐soft tyre on the rear because the track temperature was higher than all the weekend, so I just tried. 

"During൲ the practice, I did only 10 laps [on it] so I didn't know what would happen after that. But yeah, I take it and I'm happy because it was the maximum we can do for sure."

But𒈔 Bautista emp🦹hasised that he is still far from comfortable.

"For sure, the feeling with the bike is not the best right now and we need to improve because I cannot ꦓride as I want," he said. ༺"I cannot push 100%. But in any case, today was the maximum we could achieve and I'm really happy

"Congrats to to m﷽y team because we did a really good choice for the tyres and it helped me to be m🐷ore consistent. We will try to make it a bit better tomorrow."

Bautista is now tied with rookie team-mate Nicolo Bulega, whom he overtook for third place late in the race, for second𒀰 in the world championship, 33 points behind man-of-the-moment Razgatlioglu.