The Spanish Álvaro Bautista concluded two private training sessions this Thursday at the Jerez-Ángel Nieto Circuit that have served him to make his debut with his new Ducati Panigale V4R mount, With which he will face the next Superbike World Championship in his second stage with the official team of the Italian brand. The Talavera rider has become familiar with his new motorcycle, in what will be his fourth season in the World Series of series motorcycles, replacing the British Scott Redding at the Bologna firm.
Bautista has returned to Ducati after serving in the last two seasons in the official Honda team, with which he finished the last World Championship in tenth position, away from the world champion of the specialty, the Turkish Toprak Razgatlioglu, winner for the first time. The man from Toledo, who turned 37 on Sunday, got off to a brilliant start to his first Ducati campaign in 2019, when he achieved eleven consecutive victories, although he was later overtaken by Northern Irishman Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki), who finished first in the World Championship. .
After proclaiming himself 125cc world champion in 2006, with eight victories and a total of 14 podiums, Álvaro Bautista participated in the quarter-liter World Championship for three seasons in which he achieved eight victories and 24 podiums. The rider from Talavera de la Reina entered MotoGP, the highest category in motorcycling, in 2010, in which he achieved three podiums between 2012 and 2014 before getting on the Ducati Desmosedici GP in the 2017 and 2018 seasons. On his World Superbike debut in 2019, with the Aruba.it Racing Ducati team’s Paginale V4R, he was proclaimed world runner-up of this class with 16 victories, the first eleven in a row, and 24 podiums in total.
Provisional 2022 calendar
On the other hand, The World Superbike presented a provisional calendar for the next season that features thirteen racing weekends on four continents. Much of the championship will take place in Europe, and it will not be until the final stage when he travels to Asia, America and Oceania. There are two questions to be resolved, the date of the Australian event that will close the year and a career in a destination that will be announced in due course.