Alvaro Bautista heads to Japan aiming for competitive performance

Alvaro Bautista heads this weekend to Honda’s home circuit, the Twin Ring Motegi, in Japan, to compete in the round number 15 of the 2014 MotoGP World Championship, the first of three back-to-back flyaway races.

The Team GO&FUN Honda Gresini is confident that Alvaro can return to a good level of competitiveness with Alvaro Bautista on a “stop&go”, track, with strong braking and acceleration zones. Moreover, in the other two occasions the Spaniard rode a Honda MotoGP machine at Motegi, he took a third and a fourth place finish.

ALVARO BAUTISTA
“Motegi is a very unique track: it’s usually called a ‘Honda’ track because of its ‘stop&go’ layout, which requires good traction. Unfortunately, lately we’re struggling with that, but we hope to continue to grow and to start in the best possible way the first of three races in a row: during the race at Aragon race we were fighting to get into the top five on both dry and wet condition, and this is a positive sign. The track does not particularly excites me, but in the last two years I’ve always been very strong there. I hope to be able to find quickly a good set-up that can allow me to be consistent, then we will give our best in the race”.

Source: Gresini Racing