{"id":339658,"date":"2025-12-10T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:22:08","slug":"moto2-race-winner-victorious-aboard-ducati-superbike-in-australian-off-season-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339658\/","title":{"rendered":"Moto2 race winner victorious aboard Ducati Superbike in Australian off-season race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Two-time Moto2 race winner Senna Agius returned home to race in Australia over the weekend, winning twice aboard a Ducati Panigale V4 R.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Agius raced in the St. George Motorcycle Club\u2019s Summer Night Series at Sydney Motorsports Park, formerly Eastern Creek \u2013 home of the Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> between 1991 and 1996.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Australian rode his Panigale V4 R to two victories across the three races, only missing the podium in the first race when he finished fourth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was a performance strong enough for Agius to win the round overall by nine points over Jonathan Nahlous who was on the podium in all three races.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Incidentally, the first round of the 2025 Summer Night Series races also featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/bsb\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSB<\/a> names, including Josh Brookes who also raced the series last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/bsb\/news\/1088140\/1\/josh-brookes-makes-fluctuating-return-australian-racing\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookes took the victory in Race 1, but had his points tally hurt by a non-finish in Race 3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new-for-2026 BSB team Superbike Advocates was also present in Sydney with Glenn Allerton and Josh Newman.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For Agius, who was also competing recently at Valentino Rossi\u2019s 100km dei Campioni race, the Sydney races are a decent way to stay sharp over the winter, ahead of a 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/moto2\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moto2<\/a> season in which he will remain with the IntactGP team he has been with since he started his World Championship career in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It will also be a season that will hold substantial expectations for Agius, who was twice a winner in 2025, taking his maiden grand prix victory at Silverstone before winning at home in Australia towards the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Moto2 race winner Senna Agius returned home to race in Australia over the weekend, winning twice aboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,22787,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-339658","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-moto2","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339658","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=339658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}