Enea Bastianini finishes this weekend his first season as a rider for the Ducati factory team. It was a year marked by many physical problems that kept him off the track for several months, but with the victory in Malaysia as the highlight.
The Italian rider emphasized that he wants to finish the season on a positive note after the various difficulties: ‘We have reached the last race of the season. It has been a very complicated year for us and I would like to close it in the best possible way‘.
After a round in Qatar that didn’t go well for him, Bastianini hopes to find good speed from the beginning in Valencia, as he stated: ‘Last weekend in Qatar, it took us a long time to find our speed: on Friday we missed out on Q2 because of the yellow flags, and on Saturday morning I was blocked in Q1 by another rider, but in any case, I didn’t have the same pace as the others. Then, on Sunday, in the second half of the race, my feeling changed and I was able to have a competitive pace. The team is working these days to understand why and in Valencia, we will try to be fast right from the free practice on Friday‘.
