Álvaro Bautista has his sights on the lead of the World Superbike Championship this weekend at TT Assen. The Aruba.it Ducati rider is just behind his teammate Nicolò Bulega and is coming off his first victory of the year.
The champion of the last two years has made his goal for the Dutch round clear – to continue the progress from the previous race: ‘The weekend in Barcelona was very positive because the feeling with the bike has grown a lot. The goal in Assen is to concretize this base to continue making progress’.
In Bautista’s view, there will be challenges to consider such as the weather conditions and the level of his rivals, so he prefers to focus on the task at hand:
– The weather will be a question mark for all the riders and also the competition has risen a lot this season. So we have to focus only on working as best we can session by session. Then on Sunday night, we will take stock of the results.
Currently, Bautista holds second place in the championship, 12 points behind Bulega. The start in Australia was complicated, but the Spaniard reacted and achieved podium finishes in all the races in Barcelona – including victory in the second main race.
