{"id":21202,"date":"2025-09-05T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/?p=21202"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:24:51","slug":"bulega-chiude-al-comando-il-venerdi-di-magny-cours-nono-posto-per-bautista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/2025\/09\/bulega-chiude-al-comando-il-venerdi-di-magny-cours-nono-posto-per-bautista\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulega takes the top slot on Friday at Magny-Cours. Ninth place for Bautista."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free practice for the&nbsp;<strong>French Round<\/strong>, the ninth event of the 2025&nbsp;<strong>WorldSBK&nbsp;<\/strong>season, ended with&nbsp;<strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega&nbsp;<\/strong>in first place and&nbsp;<strong>\u00c1lvaro Bautista&nbsp;<\/strong>in ninth.<\/p>\n<p>It was a solid Friday for the Italian, who showed tangible improvement between FP1 and FP2. After setting the third fastest time and working intensively on set-up with his team in the morning, Bulega returned to the track in the afternoon session on soft tyres and even managed to set a new all-time track record (1&#8217;35.428) in the final run, finishing in first place with a 4-tenths advantage over Lowes (Ducati).<\/p>\n<p>Alvaro Bautista also managed to improve in the afternoon, but without taking that decisive step to stay close to the leading group. The Spanish rider finished ninth with a time of 1&#8217;36.512.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #11)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI&#8217;m satisfied with the final lap time, but I have to admit that we&#8217;re still missing something in race pace. We definitely need to improve, especially with used tyres, when I can&#8217;t lap consistently. In any case, I think we have a solid base to work from\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #19)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t an easy day. We did FP1 with the hard tyre, and the feeling wasn&#8217;t what I had hoped for, especially in the corner exit. I had better feelings with the softer tyre in the afternoon, but still not enough to be competitive. We will study the data to understand how to improve tomorrow.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free practice for the&nbsp;French Round, the ninth event of the 2025&nbsp;WorldSBK&nbsp;season, ended with&nbsp;Nicol\u00f2 Bulega&nbsp;in first place and&nbsp;\u00c1lvaro Bautista&nbsp;in ninth. It was a solid Friday for the Italian, who showed tangible improvement between FP1 and FP2. After setting the third fastest time and working intensively on set-up with his team in the morning, Bulega returned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21203,"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-21202","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\/21202","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=21202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21206,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/revisions\/21206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}