Pata Yamaha WorldSBK rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Locatelli declared himself “quite🥀 happy” with his performance in Friday practice at the Dutch WorldSBK, and believes he can finish on the podium this weekend.

Assen is the circuit where Locatelli first finished on the podium in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike back in his debut season, 2021, and he came to the Netherlands this weekend off the back ofꦬ his first podium of the season at the Portuguese Round two weeks ago.

Also – theoretically at least – playing into his and Yamaha’s 🐷favour this weekend is the fuel flow reductions imposed on Ducati and BMW as a result of their respective performances in the opening two rounds.

Although it was Ducati’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nicolo Bulega who looked strongest on Friday, Locatelli and Yamaha still showed stroꦓng potential from Friday morning in Assen.

“Basically, we started in a good point this m🧔orning with the bike,” Loca💖telli told WorldSBK.com after FP2 on Friday in Assen.

“I was quite con🎃fident and after a good FP1 we made a small change on the bike because we didn’t try using a soft [compound] tyre during [FP1] and today it was important for us to understand, especially for [Saturday] in the race💜 if it’s possible to use the soft compound.

“It looks like [it’s possible], so we made an improvemen▨t today during FP2 and I’m quite happy with the bike.”

The improvements meant Locatelli was c𒈔onfident of being able to fight for the podium, alt♌hough he stressed the importance of achieving it in Race 1.

“I feel like we can make another step forward, we will try to work 🍃on all the details tonight and I hope that💦 [in Race 1] we can fight for the podium 100 per cent,” he said.

“For sure, we need to improve a bit but I’m quite confident t🐼o be there [on Saturday].

“We need to tryꦗ immediately to do it because it’s Race 1 [...] which is always a ♋bit more tricky for everyone.

“We have a good poten🎃tial and we need to try [to finish on the podium in Race 1] because for sure 𒈔then Sunday is coming a bit difficult.”