{"id":21755,"date":"2026-02-16T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/?p=21755"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:38:14","slug":"bulega-chiude-al-comando-la-prima-giornata-di-test-in-australia-lavoro-intenso-per-lecuona-che-prende-confidenza-con-la-nuova-panigale-v4r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/2026\/02\/bulega-chiude-al-comando-la-prima-giornata-di-test-in-australia-lavoro-intenso-per-lecuona-che-prende-confidenza-con-la-nuova-panigale-v4r\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulega heads the field on the first day of testing in Australia. Busy day of work for Lecuona who gets to grips with his Panigale V4R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a winter marked by bad weather that effectively compromised European testing, the <strong>WorldSBK <\/strong>paddock moved to <strong>Australia<\/strong>, where intense sunshine lit up the first day of activity at the <strong>Phillip Island<\/strong> circuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega<\/strong> finished first in both the morning and afternoon sessions, confirming his strong feelings about the circuit where he achieved a fantastic hat-trick last year.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a busy day for <strong>Iker Lecuona<\/strong> (76 laps completed), who was able to get to grips with the <strong>Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati<\/strong> team&#8217;s <strong>Ducati Panigale V4R<\/strong> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The second day of testing will start tomorrow at 9.10<\/p>\n<p><em>Check the Data Analysis of both sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"btn-pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aus-test-day1-fp1.pdf\">DATA ANALYSIS FP1<\/a> &nbsp;&nbsp; <a class=\"btn-pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aus-test-day1-fp2.pdf\">DATA ANALYSIS FP2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #11)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We got off to a good start, and I must admit that I immediately had a good feeling with the bike. This is very important, especially when you&#8217;re on the track with a new model. We finally managed to lap consistently to collect a lot of data&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iker Lecuona (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #7)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy because the feeling on the bike was good. We worked hard, and the fact that the best lap came with a tyre that was already very worn is definitely a positive. I learned a lot today, but obviously there is still room for improvement&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a winter marked by bad weather that effectively compromised European testing, the WorldSBK paddock moved to Australia, where intense sunshine lit up the first day of activity at the Phillip Island circuit. Nicol\u00f2 Bulega finished first in both the morning and afternoon sessions, confirming his strong feelings about the circuit where he achieved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22051,"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-21755","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\/21755","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=21755"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22099,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions\/22099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}