Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Bautista: Suzuki Still Strong in This Season


Alvaro Bautista was still confident that the Suzuki MotoGP 2011 is still robust in the face of this even though they start out with a badly broken leg because of his injury.

Spanish rider was the only Suzuki rider in the squad for the Japanese factory MotoGP team for 2011. However, he missed the series opener in Qatar and the second series in Spain due to an injury during training at the Losail Circuit.

New Bautista returned to the track racing at the GP of Portugal just six weeks after the groin injury. However, he's hard to compete in the race at Estoril Circuit is thus finished in 13th place, aka caretaker. He was almost involved an accident with Karel Abraham.

After the official test which lasted a day after the race, Bautista felt Suzuki make a progress. With his physical condition continues to improve, he believes that they can achieve even better results at Le Mans, France, this weekend.

"Targetku is able to reach the finish line this year, because I could not do in 2010-and then build it again in the rest of this season," said Bautista.

"There's still quite a lot of series are left in the season so we still have time to show what we could do."

"A few laps I did during the test either because they show that the new chassis is the result of improvements so that we will use it in France and hopefully can help us to be more competitive."

Last year, Bautista was forced to just be spectators at Le Mans since he had an accident during training, which makes it a shoulder injury. This year, Bautista wants to look good even though he admits still feeling pain in his leg.

"I've worked hard since the GP of Portugal and tests to improve kebugaranku and ready to face Le Mans and the rest of the season," said Bautista.

"It's nice to be back again to the track at Estoril, but it showed me that I still have a lot of work to fitness during the race. I plan to go to Le Mans with better conditions than in Estoril and of course with better conditions than with when I came to France years ago!