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Here’s Alvaro’s post-race quotes… “It was a rather difficult race for us, because we had nearly no practice time on Friday and Saturday. I started quite badly and had some [...]

3rd Álvaro Bautista 1.53.836 (18 laps): “At the start I didn’t feel too good on the bike and I couldn’t brake hard in the slow corners. We improved in this area but on the cold [...]

“I’m really excited about going to Japan and I hope the result is better for us than Qatar. We had quite a good race at Motegi last year and set the circuit record, so hopefully we [...]

Alvaro Bautista -7th: “It was a complicated race, the whole weekend had been going fantastically, but today’s big storm really spoilt the party. From the start I went wide on the [...]

Well, a pretty dismal race for Alvaro really; and a result that will probably give great comfort to the missing Marco Simoncelli.A dreadful start off the line (in a shortened 13 lap race delayed [...]

1st Alvaro Bautista 2.00.677 (19 laps): “I am happy to have got pole position despite the difficulties posed by the wind. At the start of the session it started to rain, and we didn’t [...]

1. Bautista (Aprilia) 2min 0.677sec2. Aoyama (Honda) +0.100sec3. di Meglio (Aprilia) +0.436sec4. Barbera (Aprilia) +0.497sec5. Faubel (Honda) +0.959sec6. Talmacsi (Aprilia) +1.016sec7. Pasini [...]

1. Talmacsi 2min 1.902sec2. Bautista (Aprilia) +0.041sec3. Pasini (Aprilia) +0.294sec4. Aoyama (Honda) +0.444sec5. Barbera (Aprilia) +0.481sec6. Wilairot (Honda) +0.481sec7. Luthi (Aprilia) [...]

1. Alvaro BAUTISTA APRILIA 2:00.4962. Hiroshi AOYAMA HONDA 2:00.8733. Mike DI MEGLIO APRILIA 2:00.9464. Hector BARBERA APRILIA 2:01.0615. Karel ABRAHAM APRILIA 2:01.0946. Raffaele DE ROSA HONDA [...]

2nd – Alvaro Bautista 2.01.121 (58 laps): “This first day has been a little complicated because the track didn’t have much grip and it has taken us a little to get a good [...]