{"id":20953,"date":"2025-07-11T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/?p=20953"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:14:16","slug":"bulega-chiude-al-comando-il-venerdi-di-donington-malgrado-una-caduta-senza-conseguenze-in-fp2-undicesimo-bautista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/2025\/07\/bulega-chiude-al-comando-il-venerdi-di-donington-malgrado-una-caduta-senza-conseguenze-in-fp2-undicesimo-bautista\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulega leads the way on Day 1 at Donington despite a harmless crash in FP2. Bautista eleventh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday at Donington ends with&nbsp;<strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega<\/strong>&nbsp;in first place.&nbsp;<strong>Alvaro Bautista<\/strong>&nbsp;finished eleventh, half a second behind his teammate.<br \/>\nHowever, it was a rather tricky Friday for the Italian rider, who had to deal with a minor technical issue in FP1, while in FP2, after setting the best time of the day in 1&#8217;26.342, he was involved in a harmless crash that forced him to remain in the pits for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista carried out his usual work focused on tyre selection, testing both solutions brought by Pirelli. The Spanish rider finished eleventh on the day with a time of 1&#8217;26.939.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #11)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Regardless of what happened first in FP1 and then in FP2, I can say that I am delighted with the feeling I managed to find from the first laps this morning. Crashing is never pleasant, but doing so knowing that I was pushing the limit is still something I can consider positive. I thank the team for the extraordinary work they did, allowing me to get back on track in the last 10 minutes of FP2&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #19)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t an easy day. In FP1, I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable with the softer tyre, and we tried to make some changes to the set-up, but they didn&#8217;t bring the desired results. In the afternoon, when we went out on the track with the harder tyre, things went a little better. We need to improve ahead of Superpole because it will be essential to create the conditions to be able to start at the front.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday at Donington ends with&nbsp;Nicol\u00f2 Bulega&nbsp;in first place.&nbsp;Alvaro Bautista&nbsp;finished eleventh, half a second behind his teammate. However, it was a rather tricky Friday for the Italian rider, who had to deal with a minor technical issue in FP1, while in FP2, after setting the best time of the day in 1&#8217;26.342, he was involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-piloti","category-press","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["it","en"],"languages":{"it":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20957,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953\/revisions\/20957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}