{"id":314215,"date":"2025-11-28T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314215\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:53:11","slug":"what-was-under-nicolo-bulegas-ducati-at-the-valencia-motogp-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314215\/","title":{"rendered":"What was under Nicolo Bulega\u2019s Ducati at the Valencia MotoGP test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were plenty of visible new parts and developments rolled out by all five factories at the recent Valencia MotoGP test.<\/p>\n<p>Various new fairings, dramatically camouflaged with zebra stripes in the case of Aprilia, were the most eye-catching.<\/p>\n<p>But among the more curious additions was this sensor, presumably, mounted under the factory Ducati of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1043899\/nicolo-bulega\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolo Bulega<\/a>. It is thought he may also have used it during a private Jerez test.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3000_bulega-2.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Nicolo Bulega's Ducati, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.31\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Nicolo Bulega&#8217;s Ducati, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3000_bulega-3.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Nicolo Bulega's Ducati, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.28\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Nicolo Bulega&#8217;s Ducati, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what it\u2019s for remains something of a mystery, and teams can run whatever they like in testing &#8211; such as the mesh of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3CWUS3SdX9\/\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">air flow sensors fitted to the back of an Aprilia<\/a> at the 2024 Sepang test.<\/p>\n<p>One theory is that the device, which looked to have two metal prongs inside, was placed under Bulega\u2019s bike to measure changes in air speed\/pressure and better understand the effect of ride-height device activation.<\/p>\n<p>Like all factories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati <\/a>went even lower with its ride-height drop in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the Desmosedici\u2019s latest ride-height system, along with tweaks to the GP25 engine, have been the main areas of speculation for Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s handling issues this season.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3000_gng_1287115_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Nicolo Bulega's Ducati, braking, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Nicolo Bulega&#8217;s Ducati, braking, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Bagnaia, like the other Ducati riders, appeared not to have the under-bike device fitted to his machines at the Valencia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP <\/a>test.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3000_gng_1286998_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test<\/p>\n<p>  Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were plenty of visible new parts and developments rolled out by all five factories at the recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,8456,806,805,803,804,6909,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-314215","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-ducati","11":"tag-ducati-lenovo-team","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-nicolo-bulega","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314215","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=314215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}