Round 06 #CZEWorldSbk SUPERPOLE & RACE 2

A challenging day for Team HRC rider Alvaro Bautista at the Most Circuit in the Czech Republic where the Spaniard scoring a ninth- and a tenth-place finish.

At 11am local time Bautista lined up to begin the short Tissot Superpole race.
From eleventh, the Spaniard ran a consistent race, lying tenth for the best part of the 10-lap sprint before moving up into ninth in the final stages, a position he then held to the line and that moved him one row forward on the grid for Race 2.

Lining up for race 2 later in the afternoon, the HRC rider started from the third of the grid.
The Spaniard found himself in eleventh, crossing the line in tenth position.

At the end of this sixth round, Bautista now lies eleventh in the standings with 84 points.
Team HRC will be back in action in a two-day testing session in Catalunya the next week (12 and 13 august) before heading to Navarra for Round 7 set to take place over the weekend of 20-22 August.

Alvaro Bautista #19  

“Today was a difficult day for us in the sense that this morning, in the warm-up, we tried a slightly different set-up but in the end it didn’t give us the feeling we were hoping for and so we went back to what we had in Race 1. I made a decent start and finished ninth, earning a spot on the third row for Race 2. This afternoon unfortunately I had a bit of bad luck through the first turn because I got caught up in a race incident involving other riders and although I managed not to fall, I slipped a long way down the field. I recovered a little ground after that and was able to lap more or less with the times of the first five or six riders, but not faster than them so I could not close the gap. This is our limit, if we start well, we can stay with them but if we are behind, we never catch up. Having said that, I want to thank both the team and HRC because I know they are working hard and doing their best, but we have to take a big step forward if we want to fight for the positions we are aiming for.”