Alvaro Bautista<\/a> said, speaking to WorldSBK.com ahead of this weekend’s Hungarian Round.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m doing my best, performing at a high level, and we\u2019re fighting to be in the top three in the Riders\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext year, Toprak [Razgatlioglu] will move to MotoGP, so that leaves Nicolo [Bulega] at the front; there are no other riders faster than me who will be fighting with him, so I\u2019m not worried about next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I\u2019m doing things well, everything happens for a reason, so I\u2019m just concentrating on the races that remain this season and focusing on enjoying every moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bautista added that he feels strong \u201cmentally and physically\u201d and that he feels he has more to offer in WorldSBK.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal for next year is to keep racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really good, mentally and physically. I feel like there\u2019s even more that I can give. I want to be fighting for good results; I don\u2019t want to be here just to be another rider.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I decide to continue racing, it\u2019s because I feel I still have the performance and potential to achieve good results. We are fighting for podiums in almost every race; the pace is there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time World Champion Alvaro Bautista says his \u201cgoal\u201d is to \u201ckeep racing\u201d in 2026, and that he feels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[8074,6910,64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-17061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alvaro-bautista","tag-aruba-it-racing-ducati","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}