Enea Bastianini said goodbye to the Spanish GP with a honorable fifth place but admitted in the end he was not particularly happy with that position since, he believes, he had the arguments to fight for the podium but spending so much time behind Brad Binder ended up depriving him of that possibility.
The factory Ducati rider ended up with mixed feelings about Sunday’s race and explained that he lost a lot of time trying to overtake his closest rival in the race, the South African KTM rider: ‘I am more or less happy. It was difficult, just like on Saturday, to overtake Brad [Binder] because he brakes very late and it’s difficult throughout the whole race, I only managed to overtake him on the last lap. I cannot be happy with my result but I am happy with my speed, but I need to improve in braking because the braking point is not very good and that, for a race like this on Sunday, is a problem’.
Faced with the challenge of passing Binder and asked if he had done it earlier he could have fought for the podium, the Italian was clear: ‘Yes absolutely, that was the goal but I was with him and that’s what matters, and the result was fifth place and I cannot be happy’.
Regarding the front tire management, Bastianini showed satisfaction: ‘It worked well throughout the race. When you are behind it is a bit more difficult because the pressure rises and you have more movements, but anyway, the bike was stable and it was possible to have a good race’.
