Miguel Oliveira<\/a> in each of the three races, taking a trio of third places.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
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Oliveira was four seconds behind Bulega in Race 1, and then seven seconds back in Race 2. The Portuguese showed speed that was as fast as Toprak Razgatlioglu\u2019s on the BMW at Portimao in 2025, but whereas Razgatlioglu took a trio of victories, Oliveira was never in touch with the winner at Portimao in 2026.<\/p>\n
Ducati, of course, introduced a new generation of its Panigale V4 R for this season, but despite its unbeaten start and his own deficit to first place at Portimao, Oliveira says he does not want the Bologna factory to be hit with any kind of performance penalty in the form of an adjustment of the performance balancing rules which since last year have been centered on maximum permitted fuel flow rates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout question, they deserve what they get out of it,\u201d Oliveira said after Race 2 in Portimao, as reported by Speedweek.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a combination of the work they do at the factory and the team and the drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t think it needs any special adaptation, they are just doing their job \u2013 and that’s why they’re at the top. It’s also the case that they are not the only Ducati on the grid \u2013 there are many who finished behind me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe need to look at ourselves and not point the finger at others for their success. This is a world championship, we have to try to reduce our gap.\u201d<\/p>\n
The deficit to Ducati, Oliveira suggested, was about corner entry speed and then stability on corner exit.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur limitations that we had at the weekend, and where I feel that the competitors are a bit stronger, are the stability when the rear wheel slips and the speed when we turn into the corners,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these areas we were at the limit, in other sections of the track I tried to compensate for that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSaturday’s race was over five seconds faster than last year, I was just under half a second faster than last year’s winner, but that wasn’t enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cOur competitors have taken an extra step and we have to catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miguel Oliveira thinks Ducati should not be subject to any performance penalties in WorldSBK despite dominating the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[6910,64,63,3557,806,805,803,804,23900,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587612","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-miguel-oliveira","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-rokit-bmw-motorrad-worldsbk-team","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587612","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=587612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}