{"id":168604,"date":"2025-09-25T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168604\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:54:07","slug":"nicolo-bulega-hoping-to-put-all-the-pieces-together-at-aragon-worldsbk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168604\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolo Bulega hoping to \u201cput all the pieces together\u201d at Aragon WorldSBK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Winless since Race 2 at Most in May, Nicolo Bulega now faces a 39-point deficit to Toprak Razgatlioglu in the WorldSBK title race, but Aragon could provide an opportunity for him to begin reducing his points deficit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2024, Bulega was among the fastest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> riders at Aragon, but a technical problem in Race 1 meant he didn\u2019t take the start. Then, he was out-battled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995265\/toprak-razgatlioglu\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Razgatlioglu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995293\/alvaro-bautista\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alvaro Bautista<\/a> in the Superpole Race, before making a mistake in Race 2.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For the 2025 edition of the MotorLand race, Bulega wants to clean up his weekend to take advantage of his potential.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s a track I like, normally our bike is good here, so I\u2019ll try to have a good weekend staying in the front,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1043899\/nicolo-bulega\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolo Bulega<\/a> told WorldSBK.com.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLast year, I was faster during the weekend. I took pole, then the Race 1 tech issue, then in Race 2, I wanted to take P1, but got impatient and made a mistake. I was fast but couldn\u2019t put it all together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ll try this year to be fast and put all the pieces together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even still, Bulega acknowledges the threat that Razgatlioglu poses, even at a circuit where the Turkish rider is yet to win in WorldSBK.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAt the moment, Toprak [Razgatlioglu] is very fast, and it\u2019s been very difficult to stay with him,\u201d Bulega said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBMW have been working very well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLast year [at Aragon], Toprak was still not 100 per cent after his injury. This year, he will be stronger, so it will be more difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRacing here at Aragon is a good chance for us, but it won\u2019t be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winless since Race 2 at Most in May, Nicolo Bulega now faces a 39-point deficit to Toprak Razgatlioglu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[6910,64,63,806,805,803,804,6909,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-168604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aruba-it-racing-ducati","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-nicolo-bulega","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}