Ducati’s MotoGP Test Rider<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpeaking during Saturday\u2019s FP2 session in Portugal, Davide Tardozzi – Ducati Lenovo’s Team Manager – outlined their plans for Bulega: “He will be the guy who will develop the bike, because we think that Nicolo will have in 2026 the experience and the speed to do this with the tyres.”<\/p>\n
The #11 has already had plenty to learn in MotoGP, particularly with the different tyres (Michelin’s rather than Pirelli’s), which Tardozzi references, as well as the carbon brakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking at the replacement rides at the end of this season, Tardozzi sees them as a valuable opportunity for Bulega to gain more experience with the current bike and tyres before their attention turns to the new 850cc era in 2027: “These two races and the test in Valencia will give him information about the 1000cc bike and the Michelins.”<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not just the differences in machinery that Bulega will need to get to grips with. Tardozzi is already looking towards the future development of the bike: “He will have the opportunity to compare the new bike during the following year.”<\/p>\n
Valencia is quickly approaching, and it’s a circuit Bulega hasn\u2019t raced at since 2021 in Moto2. Let’s see how the impressive Italian gets on at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo at the weekend, before the much-anticipated Valencia Test goes green on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicolo Bulega (Ducati Lenovo Team) wasted no time making an impression on his MotoGP debut in Portugal. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-278286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278286","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=278286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}