In the final day of a weekend that seemed tailor-made for Scott Redding and his V4R Ducati, he ended up not winning the long race for a second time in Aragon, nor the short race on Sunday morning that has become the property of his main championship rival, Jonathan Rea and his Kawasaki.

Winning race one was not so easy for Redding, having to coach himself to get into a winning mentality and on a bike without an ideal setup.

Logic dictates that after his race-one success he would then know, with his team and their reams of overnight data, what to do to next day to make one or two more wins even more secure.

Racing is not always logical, especially with another subtle but measurable change in race conditions. For Redding, it was understandable to finish second to Rea in the sprint race, but harder to fathom why he had to settle for a hard-riding fourth in the second feature race.

“I am not sure, I kind of did the same thing. I thought, right, get a good start, get behind Johnny and don’t let him get away,” Redding told bikesportnews.com. But he just had more grip, it was clear. I was struggling to get the bike to hook up and drive.

“I pushed more and more but there was nothing more coming from the tyres. So I was sat there as a passenger, watching him ride away. Then there was a small issue into the last corner with my bike. I locked the rear and I was a bit worried that something mechanical had happened, and then it recovered itself again but I lost some position.

Chaz came underneath me like a train in the last corner and I thought, ‘fucking hell, this is not your day…’ That is the way it goes sometimes.”

Redding was sanguine about his race-two fate, but also thought there had to be a reason why he had so little grip.

“I want to say something with the tyre but I don’t want to put the blame to anybody. Also, if it is not the tyre and something we are doing, I do not wanna give it the option of ‘oh, it’s the tyres,’ then we come back next week and it is the same shit. We need to understand how to get more grip.

“I watched the first race back yesterday and, honestly, fuck knows how I won the race. I was sliding all over the place. When I can find the rhythm and it is hot and greasy I can get away with that style, but when it is a bit cooler and Kawasaki and other manufacturers can get the grip, we need to find something. They are making the step and I am just destroying my tyre and not able to go forward.”

Redding knows every point counts this year, especially at a track with a fast straight like Motorland.

“It is kind of annoying to have that result because I believe I should have definitely been on the podium and I should be fighting for the win, I believe that for sure,” he said. “Towards the end of the race the pace was similar to those guys but that is because their tyres drop, they get less grip, hey come to me.

“Normally I get stronger at the end but because I used the tyre to try to go with Johnny at the beginning, I could not be stronger at the end. We cannot let this become a habit, of Jonathan just getting up and going. That is his strong point, I am fully aware of it. But if I don’t have grip I cannot go. We need to work on that for next week.”