On Track Off Road No. 194
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WORLDSBK POR<br />
Second in the championship. History<br />
maker. <strong>On</strong> paper Bautista’s debut<br />
WorldSBK season has been incredibly<br />
impressive. Racing however plays out on<br />
the asphalt, not on the statistics sheet.<br />
With that being so, Bautista’s collapse is<br />
one of the most stunning in memory. The<br />
riders below him didn’t plunge to the same<br />
depths on their bad days, but neither did<br />
they rise to the heights of Bautista at his<br />
finest. When I asked him about his season<br />
he said: “I never expected anything like this<br />
season. It’s been crazy.” Throwing away a<br />
61 point lead was indeed ludicrous.<br />
How did it happen? In two stages, gradually<br />
and then suddenly. Suddenly, due to confidence<br />
and perhaps some SBK inexperience,<br />
Bautista was a title bystander.<br />
2ALVARO BAUTISTA<br />
DUCATI RACING
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