DAZN, the leading global sports streaming platform, offers the start of the WorldSBK at dawn from Friday to Saturday (04:15), with the first date being the Gran Ridge Brewery Australian Round, which will be held at the Australian track of Philipp Island. Motorcycling fans can enjoy all the championship races, which will be narrated by Pere Flores and will include comments by Àlex Baldolini and Joan Lascorz.
Last season, Álvaro Bautista, a Ducati rider, became the champion after beating Yamaha’s Toprak Razgatlioglu and Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea. To remember his great success, subscribers to the platform can now enjoy ‘Bautista is crowned in Superbikes’, content that recalls the success of the rider from Talavera de la Reina, who made history by being the second Spanish to won the World Cup. of superbikes after it was achieved by Carlos Checa, current MotoGP analyst on DAZN.
The two-wheeled fans also have ‘The Return’ available now, a new documentary dedicated to the figure of the Spaniard, one of the main favorites to defend his crown from last year. In this content, Bautista reveals how his move to Ducati came about: “I remember talking to Stefano (Cecconi) and Serafino (Foti) in Assen and everything was clearer there. ‘Do you want to come with us? Yes. We love you.'”
Led by Álvaro Bautista, the Italian team won its first drivers’ championship since 2011 and the Spaniard recalled with emotion what he first did after winning the title: “The first phone call I received… Well, I didn’t accept it, I did, it was my husband, because I wanted to see him and my daughter. I remember that he was on stage with everyone from the team, celebrating on the podium, and this was happy, because he spoke as before, with so much emotion. But when I first said ‘son’, I don’t know why, but I started crying. The emotion I felt inside when I knew I was going to share the moment that with my daughter is something incredible. For me, it’s the most exciting of all. Incredible”.
In addition to the Superbike World Championship, Bautista was 125cc world champion in 2006, although he explained that there was a moment when he was close to getting off the bike: “I remember that in 2001, at that time, my parents paid for everything. and there was no more money, so in the end… We just finished. But an offer came to me when I decided to stop to finish the Spanish Championship with a fairly competitive team and we decided: ‘Ok, let’s try it’. All my training and all my focus is just to do my best. Because only one driver can be a champion, and there are definitely better drivers than me. But I think fate, or something like that, said, “You don’t have to stop. You have to keep going because you’re going to be world champion.”
Source: La Verdad
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