Álvaro Bautista: "Starting on soft tyres in the race is a good option"

Rider Álvaro Bautista has been one of the surprises of the MotoGP World Championship at the Circuit de Catalunya, although this “surprise” is only half true, since the 19 has talent, pace and a good bike, but it seems that, race after race, he is getting more and more of a feeling with his Honda, and improving by leaps and bounds every day.

So Bautista is a half surprise: everyone expected the Honda Gresini man to be among the frontrunners, and today we saw him in 2nd place, and for a few minutes leading FP2, but in the end Jorge Lorenzo overtook him. Even so, he stayed in that position and set a series of laps at a great pace, so Bauti is very encouraged at this second round of the season at home.

Tomorrow is when it’s time to really push, but it always helps to end Friday with good feelings on track and with the bike, so keep an eye on the 19.

Statements from Álvaro Bautista:

It has been a very good start and the guys have done a great job. This morning I had rear traction problems, but this afternoon it improved a lot.

I didn’t have good feelings with the hard tyres, but with the soft tyres my pace was decent. Tomorrow we are going to try to see if we can do a race simulation with the soft tyres, since it would be a great option for us if we can start on them.

We are going to work in that direction and we hope to have a happy result tomorrow, but for now we are happy anyway.

Source | Honda Gresini