A fourth place for Tito Rabat in WorldSBK FP2 at the Italian𓂃 Round in Cremona was comfortably the Spanish rider’s bestꦫ showing so far in the championship.

Rabat, the 2014 Moto2 World Champion, currently sits 21s﷽t in the riders’ standings, with a best result of 14th. But, at Cremona, he was less tha🥀n 0.3 seconds off the fastest time, and two places ahead of the reigning World Champion, Alvaro Bautista.

“It was defini🐻tely my best day so far in 🍌an official race weekend,” Rabat told WorldSBK.com.

“We started quite good. We made two consistent st♒ints. In the end, here is a new track and we had the opportunity to come and test here three months ago.

“Everyone tested so we’re in the same situation as the re☂st of the riders. It’s a new track, it’s a narrow track.

“My Ka༺wasaki wor🤡ks quite well. We are trying to understand, as a private team with my crew chief and mapping guy, all the information from Kawasaki. We started well with P4.

“Now what’s important is trying to work as an offic🍸ial team, try to have some help for tomorrow to make a step [like] the official guys will do.

“I know that I’m👍 fast. We have the bike; we just need to manage the wee꧑kend well.”

A♔ttempting to explain his speed at Cremona, Rabat said: “I do a lot of training. I try to do my best. The off🎉icial guys go to practice every weekend and I try to go to the Spanish championship with the standard bike to practice.

“✨I try to do tests with Manuel, but we can’t do the same amount as the other [teams]. Then﷽, we try to do what we can, and we are doing our best.

“The reason for Cremona, maybe because it’s the💫 first time everyone comes here, it’s a narrow track and the Kawasaki works quite well on these kind of tracks.”

Perhaps there is also some superstition in it for tꦡhe #53.

“The most important is the 53rd track that World♔SBK goes to,” Rabat joked.

“Cross fingers, we’ll see if we can take profit of th💞at. We worked so well with the starts. We start well. The reality is we🐟 were P4 today, so why not tomorrow?

“We just need to keep calm, take all the information from Kawasaki and KRT and try to mana𒈔ge the information in the best way possible.”