Bautista: “Ducati’s secret is that it worked harder than others”

This Monday they visited the newsroom of World of sports two world champions who from May 5 to 7 have an appointment at Circuit of Barcelona-Catalunya including the first of two home rounds of the World Cup superbike. From the round of Assen the current SBK world champion and current leader, Alvaro Bautista, and the 2021 Moto2 champion, Remy Gardner, who will debut this year in the championship, share their current SBK and their MotoGP past in this brushstroke of what will be two interviews to be published next week that will heat up the Catalan round of WorldSBK.

Alvaro Bautista he is fed up at the start of the championship, that number 1 in his Panigale still needs to impress more than his rivals and after the first nine races he has eight wins and a fifth and has a 56-point advantage over the second, champion also SBK Toprak Razgatlioglu. ‘Bati’ reached 40 Superbike victories this Sunday and gave Ducati its 400th victory and 700th podium this weekend. In no time he will have his own space at the stunning Ducati Museum in Borgo Panigale if he continues at this rate.

Ducati dominates both MotoGP with its Desmosedici and Superbike with its Panigale with an iron fist. “The secret is the work. Last year Bagnaia won, but since 2007 with Stoner they haven’t won. I won in Superbike and since 2011 with Carlos Checa you don’t win. Ducati has worked harder than others and wanted to be champions and in the end they did it. Apart from Gigi (Dall’Igna, general manager of Ducati Corse and ‘father’ of both bikes) I have only good words, he is the best, and he knows how to -interpret the numbers, but with the rider’s feelings that not all engineers know how to do it.

At the age of 38 and a half years and after 21 seasons in the two-wheel elite, Alvaro assures that he is experiencing the best moment of his sports career: “I have never felt as much as I feel now and I have never felt. in harmony with the bike as before. At 125cc (he was world champion in 2006) I had these feelings, but now with more experience, knowing more how to do things, I’m better than before ”.

“I don’t know if this is my peak or if I can improve, but right now I feel great, I’m enjoying myself and I feel great physically and mentally. I worked very well and I like it, I do them with real desire. I am more motivated than in my first years in the World Cup”, he stresses.

Together they arrived at Grupo Godó for this early Media Day and Bautista points out that the most difficult thing for a rookie coming from MotoGP “is to understand the format of the weekend, with three races accumulated, you have to know how to manage your times very well and not only physically but mentally it’s quite stressful, you have to know how to reset every time you finish a race”.

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Gardner: taking the right steps

Remy Gardner arrived “a bit tired from the weekend in Assen, but want to race again, every time I get on the bike it’s a step, and I hope to make another small step in Montmeló and I want to race in my second home -although Australian by birth, he moved to Spain with his family at the age of 14 to pursue a career in motorcycles.

In Assen the team pilot Gytr GRT Yamaha He came from taking sixth in race 2 and eighth in race 1, his best results. He assured that “the first goal is to be the first Yamaha and fight at the front there. We definitely have the speed, and that is very important, but we lacked the speed in qualifying and the aggressiveness on the new rubber, with confidence and change the chip coming, but I have to work and work with the team to give me more confidence in the Pirelli special ‘qualifying’. If we fix that we can be first”.

about the champion Alvaro Bautista he assures that the work he is doing “is incredible and this year he will not be touched. He also understood it quickly and that is something I want to check and try to do the same. Here in Superbike he has a different path and he’s very good and he’s enjoying it more than he’s enjoyed in MotoGP.”