Team Bimota Alstare’s baptism of fire at Motorland Aragon ended on a happy note, with Ayrton Badovini battling it out with the top EVO class riders in both races, after successfully make it into Saturday afternoon's Tissot-Superpole. Despite a technical problem that occurred in race 1, former WSS podium finisher Christian Iddon managed to display a good race pace aboard his EVO spec Bimota BB3 in the second outing.

Boosted by the performance shown by the two riders in Spain, the team led by Francis Batta will now focus on their second round of the season which takes place at the Assen TT Circuit on April 27th.

Ayrton Badovini : “Considering that this is our first race weekend, I am happy and I think we’ve done a good job and maybe surprised a few people. I’m happy because I finished both races without any problems and I improved my feeling with the bike - especially in the second race. I’m sorry about my little problem at the start of the second race and I’m sure if I had made a better start, I would’ve finished higher up. After the problem, which caused me to lose some places, I settled down into a good rhythm and began to push much harder. We’ve a lot of work to do for the next race, but I am happy with our debut and confident about our future.”

Christian Iddon: “The first race was a great experience and a real milestone in my career. My debut in World Superbikes - and doing it with such a famous brand and with such a great team. I had a few (electronic) issues in Race 1, but I the team sorted them out for Race 2 and I was really looking forward to pushing much harder and exploring the bike’s potential. Everything was going well and Ayrton and I were having a good battle with a group of riders, but then I started to have a problem with my seat - it fell off! I carried on for about another four laps, but then the bike stopped. The seat has a sensor, which is activated when you crash, so I guess (because the seat fell off) the sensor thought I’d fallen off and cut the bike out. But, apart from that, I feel that it has been a very productive weekend for all of us in the team. We’ve learned a lot in such a short space of time and we’ll use that information to improve their bike next time out. As this was not one of my favourite circuits, I’m pretty happy with how things went this weekend.”