{"id":473909,"date":"2026-06-03T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/473909\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:21:08","slug":"stats-round-up-bulega-closes-in-on-edwards-and-melandri-for-worldsbk-rostrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/473909\/","title":{"rendered":"STATS ROUND-UP: Bulega closes in on Edwards and Melandri for WorldSBK rostrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/riders\/nicolo-bulega\/6164\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolo Bulega<\/a> (Aruba.it Racing &#8211; Ducati) continues to re-write the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship as he racked up another hat-trick at MotorLand Aragon, extending his winning run to 22 races. The stats don\u2019t stop there for \u2018Bulegas\u2019, who is closing in on more records as his march towards glory in 2026 continues. Catch up on some of the best stats from the Aragon Round below.<\/p>\n<p>255\/258 \u2013 After a heroic home round, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/riders\/alvaro-bautista\/3514\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alvaro Bautista<\/a> (Barni Spark Racing Team) is three race starts away from drawing level with Toprak Razgatlioglu, for tenth in the all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>150 \u2013 Bulega\u2019s Superpole Race win was Italy\u2019s 150th in WorldSBK.<\/p>\n<p>74\/75 \u2013 Bulega is one podium away from tying Colin Edwards and Marco Melandri for rostrums. Melandri has the most podiums by an Italian rider in WorldSBK.<\/p>\n<p>38\/52 \u2013 Bulega has won 38 races on Ducati machinery in WorldSBK. He\u2019s 14 behind his next target, Troy Bayliss, who won 52.<\/p>\n<p>22 \u2013 Bulega has now won 22 consecutive WorldSBK races, extending the all-time streak.<\/p>\n<p>18\/27 \u2013 The #11 has taken 18 wins this season. The all-time record for wins in a single campaign is 27, set by Bautista in 2023. 18 is the third-highest number of wins in a season.<\/p>\n<p>17 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/riders\/iker-lecuona\/7812\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iker Lecuona<\/a> (Aruba.it Racing &#8211; Ducati) has 17 rostrums without a win in WorldSBK, an all-time record.<\/p>\n<p>15\/17 \u2013 15 of Lecuona\u2019s 17 podiums have come this season. They have all been P2 finishes, and all consecutive, which is an all-time run.<\/p>\n<p>15 \u2013 Bulega has 15 poles in his WorldSBK career. He\u2019s one behind 2003 World Champion Neil Hodgson.<\/p>\n<p>11 \u2013 Bulega has 11 Grand Slams in 2026, an all-time record.<\/p>\n<p>11 \u2013 Thanks to his three P3s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/riders\/sam-lowes\/1703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Lowes<\/a> (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) moved onto 11 WorldSBK podiums. 9 of these have been in third place.<\/p>\n<p>7 \u2013 Bulega has seven consecutive pole positions in WorldSBK, the joint second-longest streak with Ben Spies in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5 \u2013 Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/riders\/alberto-surra\/7793\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto Surra<\/a> (Motocorsa Racing) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/riders\/thomas-bridewell\/1814\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Bridewell<\/a> (Superbike Advocates) took their best WorldSBK results at Aragon. Surra claimed P4 in the Superpole Race, while Bridewell was fifth in Race 1.<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013Surra claimed his first front row start in WorldSBK.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the WorldSBK action in 2026 using the <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.worldsbk.com\/en\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WorldSBK VideoPass \u2013 now 50% off!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing &#8211; Ducati) continues to re-write the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship as he racked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-473909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}