During yesterday’s final free practice session for the MotoGP, Alvaro Bautista took a hard fall and broke his left femur. Bautista is now recovering in the Hamad Medical Corporation Hospital in Doha, Losail, after having successful surgery. Bautista was taken to the hospital after tests on the track showed that he had fractured his thigh [...]
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP rider Álvaro Bautista is ready for the Qatar GP after completing a positive test, and escaping uninjured from a 250km/h crash, earlier this week. Bautista is eager to get back into the racing groove following some encouraging pre-season tests that have seen him and his crew work on many new settings and [...]
Rizla Suzuki’s Alvaro Bautista made good progress but lost a large amount of test time at Malaysia today due to a severe headache that sidelined the Spanish star. Bautista (35 laps), had already started today’s wide-ranging programme and had tested new Marchesini wheels, Ohlins rear shock damping specs, and electronic mapping strategies before the pain [...]
Alvaro Bautista and the Rizla Suzuki squad are back in Malaysia for the penultimate pre-season MotoGP test of 2011 with another comprehensive test schedule ahead of them. Bautista had an impressive first test of 2011 at the Sepang circuit, despite missing the final day due to illness. He recorded his fastest ever time around the [...]
There is a lot of pressure resting on the shoulders of Alvaro Bautista. Bautista will be the sole rider for the Rizla Suzuki team during the 2011 MotoGP season, but he believes that the situation will work to his advantage. “I think being the only rider is positive on the whole,” Bautista said. “Because Suzuki [...]
When you talk about the MotoGP, you’re most likely talking about Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, or Dani Pedrosa. But Alvaro Bautista is confident that he’ll be in the conversation this year. Bautista is about to embark on his second year in the MotoGP, and he is hoping to score some podium finishes this year. Bautista [...]
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