{"id":675479,"date":"2026-05-16T21:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675479\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:41:09","slug":"ducati-rider-super-proud-after-milestone-czech-worldsbk-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675479\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducati rider \u201csuper proud\u201d after milestone Czech WorldSBK podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barni\u2019s Yari Montella completed a Ducati podium lockout of Race 1 at the Czech WorldSBK in what was a milestone result for the Italian.<\/p>\n

Montella was also on the podium in Race 2 at Balaton Park on 4 May, meaning his Czech podium today (16 May) was his second in a row, something he hadn\u2019t done in WorldSBK<\/a> before.<\/p>\n

Montella\u2019s gap to the leaders in Race 1 was over 10 seconds, but he was also four seconds clear of Garrett Gerloff<\/a> in fourth, so the performance was something to be pleased about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super-proud, super-happy for the work that we\u2019ve done,\u201d Yari Montella<\/a> told WorldSBK.com after Race 1 at Most.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end it was a good Saturday because this morning I felt really good on the bike, during Superpole I was able to push close to the first because at the end I finished two-tenths from the first. It was not bad, my feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Montella added that he had been struggling with some instability during the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the race, I know that it will be different because the pace would be different,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried the first laps to follow the first guys \u2013 Iker [Lecuona] and Nicolo [Bulega] \u2013 but at the end I struggled a little bit because I\u2019m struggling during the race with some movement on the bike, it was always like a boat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it was important to finish the race to have data for tomorrow, to analyse and understand what we can do to improve this feeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure I need to work also my riding style, probably, on my lines, so we\u2019ll see. I need to analyse, to see the data, to see the race, and see what we can do tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Looking to Sunday, Montella is aiming to continue in his current vein of consistency while also trying to close the gap to the two leaders compared to Race 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way is to be consistent as much as possible, and try to make our best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that the first two official guys, they have something more, but I have to work, to improve, to understand what they made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, we have data to compare, so we need to be smart to understand what they made and try to copy, try to improve and try to close the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Italian is now only one point behind Sam Lowes<\/a> in the riders\u2019 standings in the battle for third place. Montella is expecting a strong Lowes on Sunday after he was taken out by Alberto Surra in Race 1, but is nonetheless confident of his chances of repeating his podium performance from Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know that tomorrow Sam Lowes will be one that can fight for the podium, but at the end my feeling is that I can do more or less the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have data of today to improve [for] tomorrow, and why not? We\u2019ll see tomorrow. It will be nice to fight for the third position in the championship, but we need to think race-by-race and try to do our best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barni\u2019s Yari Montella completed a Ducati podium lockout of Race 1 at the Czech WorldSBK in what was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,6908,806,805,803,804,85,215593],"class_list":["post-675479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barni-spark-racing-team","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-yari-montella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675479","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=675479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}