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Bautista after Pedrosa wild card: “It’s more pressure, I have to do what he did”
Alvaro Bautista, the winner of the 2022 WorldSBK title, is set to make a wild card appearance in MotoGP in Malaysia as a prize for his championship victory. Bautista is currently leading the 2023 Superbike standings and could potentially secure the title before his MotoGP race. Although the expectations for Bautista’s wild card appearance are not as high as they were for Dani Pedrosa, who is already a test rider for KTM and had a previous wild card race, Bautista aims to replicate Pedrosa’s performance at Misano. Speaking about Pedrosa, Bautista praises his fellow rider and acknowledges the high level of competition among riders from their generation. Bautista also addresses the incident in the Superpole Race where he was involved in a collision with his teammate, Michael Ruben Rinaldi. Bautista considers it a racing incident and emphasizes the difficulty of making judgments based solely on TV footage, stating that race direction’s decision must be accepted, even if there may be disagreement.
Source: Crash.net
