Eleven years have passed since a pilot Ducati won the championship super bikesince 2011 with the title of Charles Czech with the 1098R of the Althea Racing. Y Alvaro Bautista This weekend he can achieve his first world title of the derivatives of the series in the Indonesian round, penultimate of the year. Manages a difference of 82 points with respect to Toprak Razgatlioglu and 98 on Jonathan Rhea and the combinations are various for talaverano. Extend the party Ducatiafter the title bagnaia in MotoGPis one small step away.
The Spaniard will have three races to certify the title and become the second Spaniard to be world champion in SBK. To put it simply, if he leaves Indonesia 62 or more points ahead of his nearest challenger, he will dethrone Razgatlioglu as the new king of the championship. But he may not even have to wait for the weekend to end, since after the first race of the Saturday (06:30, Spanish time) if the Talaverano finishes first and the Turk does not pass the eighth, the lawsuit will already be sentenced. If that result did not happen, the second chance would come in the Superpole Race (Sunday, 03:30), if between the first two sleeves Bautista adds five points more than the Turk. The other route includes Race 2 (Sunday, 06:30), and not having yielded more than 20 with respect to the Yamaha throughout the weekend. Two days to reach for the calculator, in any case.
Bautista was present last weekend at the Ricardo Tormo to accompany Bagnaia and the Ducati team in the last MotoGP Grand Prix of the year, in which the Italian returned the title to Borgo Panigale after 15 years of waiting, the that have happened since Stoner dominated in 2007. Like him, Pecco He had everything in his favor, but the ’19’ does not think about the World Cup and he expresses it this way before arriving at Mandalika: “The classification of the World Championship? The only thing I say is that I would like to have fun in Indonesia too.”
With the same mentality, the official Ducati team travels to Indonesia, taking the pressure off for a title they have been pursuing since 2011 and which three factories have won since then: Aprilia (three times), Kawasaki (with Rea’s six) and Yamaha (with the current champion Razgatlioglu). Serafino Foti, Team Manager of Aruba.it Racing, He doesn’t want anything to distract either the pilot or the squad and therefore he pronounces without excessive euphoria: “We will prepare to face the last two eounds. We are very optimistic, but we are not going to lose concentration. Álvaro thinks only of going race by race, without thinking about the Championship. He is a super pilot. We don’t want to think about the title, now we only think about going to Mandalika to give our best. Obviously if we succeeded we would be very happy. We’ll talk about it at Mandalika or at Phillip Island.”
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