Alvaro Bautista<\/a> told WorldSBK.com at EICMA.<\/p>\n\u201cI crashed out, and after that crash was, for me\u2013 I felt like it was a [before and after]. It changed me a lot inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cSincerely, it has been one crash in all my career that I [felt] a lot of inside pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a memory of a couple of crashes like this and, in Aragon, it was like a starting point.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that, I was on the podium in all the rest of the races, but my mentality, my feelings, changed a lot there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI said \u2018It was not the best moment of the season but it was very important to have that moment\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in all the bad moments you can learn something and that crash gave me another point of view, another perspective, and I think I learned a lot from that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo, on one side I\u2019m not happy about that crash but on the other hand I\u2019m really that it happened because I think after that I approached in a different way everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been an important moment last [season] but also for the future. \u201c<\/p>\n
The late-season reset got Bautista a top-three spot in the World Superbike standings in the end. Not what he aims for, but a good way to end his time at the factory Ducati team, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter winning two championships, to finish third seems like not a good result,\u201d Bautista said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s true that in 2024 and 2025 we couldn\u2019t fight with the same weapons as the others; the conditions we had were worse, we were penalised [by] the weight penalisation rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo, at the end, it was the maximum we can achieve because Nicolo [Bulega] and Toprak [Razgatlioglu] were very strong, but we were not in the same conditions to fight against them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I think it was important at least to finish in the podium at the end of the season and to end the relationship with Aruba with a third place is better than fourth or fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, because we won also the Teams\u2019 Championship, so I think it has been a good way to end this period with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash at the Aragon WorldSBK proved a critical \u201creset\u201d point for Alvaro Bautista in his final season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[8074,6910,64,63,6908,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-277866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-alvaro-bautista","9":"tag-aruba-it-racing-ducati","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-barni-spark-racing-team","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277866","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=277866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}