WorldSBK Aragon: ‘Nobody is unbeatable’ - Bautista

The way Alvaro Bautista went away from the chasing pack in both the Superpole and full distance Sunday races at Motorland Aragon had shades of his rookie season in 2019, when he came, saw and conquered like Caesar riding a lighting bolt.

Even race one winning magician Jonathan Rea had no pace for Bautista on Sunday. First round back, and Bautista looked unbeatable, to everybody except the man himself.

“Not unbeatable,” Bautista told bikesportnews.com. “I think nobody is unbeatable. But for sure, what I said yesterday. I did the race, just keeping calm and just finish the race and get a result and get confidence and start to build up a good pace for the championship. So, yesterday was ‘braking’ in myself.

“Today after the warmup, I felt quite good with the bike. In the superpole race, I said, ’OK, let’s try…’ It was like I was a bit more free. I tried from the beginning to have the lead and just push. Also, because it’s strange, in the practice I always do laps alone, also in the test.

“So the bike, we make a setup with the electronics especially that if I go with this way of braking, this line, this speed, it’s working quite well. But if I have to change braking or line or speed or something, then the bike is not working well anymore. So, yesterday I had this feeling.”

Bautista was in some degree of stress on his bike in Race One, while fighting to escape others, but on his own, and now free of his self-imposed restraint right in the edge, he knew his best way to win on Sunday was to go alone.

We could see in the data that it was like that. Changing the riding style affects a lot the electronics side. So, today I just said, ‘OK. Just get the lead, and at least you can push yourself, even if I have some riders behind.’ But