{"id":700386,"date":"2026-05-28T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700386\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:44:08","slug":"nicolo-bulega-continues-to-chase-2027-motogp-seat-as-manager-heads-to-mugello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700386\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolo Bulega continues to chase 2027 MotoGP seat as manager heads to Mugello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">2026 WorldSBK points leader Nicolo Bulega is retaining hopes of landing a MotoGP ride in 2027, with his manager heading to Mugello this weekend for the Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bulega has won the last 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WorldSBK<\/a> races in succession, including each of the 15 run so far in 2026, and leads the riders\u2019 standings by 95 points over his factory Ducati teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995269\/iker-lecuona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iker Lecuona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> promotion for 2027 is in the balance for the Italian, who has nothing signed yet for next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Talks are ongoing, though, for the Italian to get his desired move.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe are just continuing to talk,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1043899\/nicolo-bulega\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolo Bulega<\/a> told WorldSBK.com of his 2027 negotiations ahead of the Aragon Round this weekend (29\u201331 May).<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think my manager now is at Mugello for this weekend, so I hope to have some more news after this weekend in Mugello.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Aragon Round is arguably held at one of Bulega\u2019s best tracks: MotorLand. He won there last year to end Toprak Razgatlioglu\u2019s 13-race winning run and was on pole in his rookie season before a bike problem meant he couldn\u2019t start Race 1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Italian heads there this year following a Misano test that saw him top both days and try some changes on the Ducati Panigale V4 R that he was unable to assess during the washed out preseason.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe did a test in Misano with the Superbike, so I think we found something that I like,\u201d Bulega said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m curious to try [it] here in Aragon. It\u2019s a track that I like, last year I won two races and I did also the pole position, so it\u2019s a track that I like and I hope to be fast also this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He added: \u201cWe tried something different on the setting side because during this winter we never had a chance to play a little bit with the bike because this winter we did not make any test for the weather, always rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, it was like a preseason test, we tried a lot of different setups and at the end we found a solution that I think also here I can appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 WorldSBK points leader Nicolo Bulega is retaining hopes of landing a MotoGP ride in 2027, with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700387,"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":["post-700386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-aruba-it-racing-ducati","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-nicolo-bulega","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700386","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=700386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}