In great shape and about to secure his second title in Superbike World Championship, Alvaro Bautista is standing out as the strongest rider of the called ‘Titanic Trio’ but during his life at the motorcycling competition he also had other fierce rivalries with very know names of the sport.
After the big battle with Toprak Razgatlioglu in Portimao during the past weekend of the WSBK, the current world champion was asked were the turkish stacks up in terms of his career rivals. In his response, the Ducati rider said: ‘I have had many, many riders. Marco Simoncelli, Valentino Rossi… maybe they weren’t all direct for the title but also with Dani Pedrosa and Marc Márquez’.
With his mind setting him to speak about his MotoGP time more than ever, he then highlighted the situation is different… just like the bikes are: ‘These bikes are different to MotoGP. It’s not easy to fight with him as he’s very aggressive and he can move the bike easily and make manoeuvres very on the limit whilst having a lot of control. Toprak is one of the toughest rivals I have fought with’.