Donington WorldSBK: P12 ‘seriously under our expectations’ for Rinaldi

Michael Rinaldi found WorldBSK race one at Donington Park particularly tough, a🌜s the two-time Mis🌳ano race winner went backwards from the start.
After salvaging P8 in qualifying, Rinaldi severely lacked pace in the drying൩ conditions as he finished nearly a minute down on race winner Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Ducat💖i ha🙈ve seemed to struggle more than most this weekend - highlighted by the top Ducati of Axel Bassani finishing only tenth.
Confidence wasn’t aಞn issue coming into the weekend for Rinaldi fol🔴lowing his brilliant home round of Misano, but winning races and then finishing ‘many seconds’ behind is unacceptable, said the 25 year-old.
Rinaldi added: "It was a difficult race today. It was seriously under our expectations. We won in Misano and arrived here full of confidence but seriously I couldn’t ride in the way I want and we are missing something.&nb꧑sp;
"The comments are ♊the same from Aragon so we need to understand what’s happening when we are not in the r🔴ight conditions.
"You cannot win races and then the race after take so many seconds, so s🎀omething is missing🐲 now and what we can do is only work hard because we already showed our potential."
Rinaldi’s team-mate Soctt Redding also had a disastrous race one as he crashe🐼d out from sixth pl♎ace on lap three.
Heading into today’s double races, Rinaldi sits fifth in the championship - 18 points behi🐻nd Alex Lowe♏s who claimed a podium in race one.