{"id":23743,"date":"2026-05-14T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/?p=23743"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:11:27","slug":"bulega-lecuona-ed-il-team-aruba-it-racing-ducati-a-most-per-difendere-la-leadership-nel-campionato-del-mondo-superbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/2026\/05\/bulega-lecuona-ed-il-team-aruba-it-racing-ducati-a-most-per-difendere-la-leadership-nel-campionato-del-mondo-superbike\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulega, Lecuona and the Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati Team head to Most to defend their lead in the Superbike World Championship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth round of the 2026<strong> WorldSBK <\/strong>season gets underway tomorrow morning with the first free practice sessions at the <strong>Autodrom Most <\/strong>(Czech Republic).<\/p>\n<p>Having set the record for consecutive wins (16) in WorldSBK history two weeks ago in Hungary, <strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega <\/strong>will aim to extend his winning streak and increase his lead in the standings (+82 points) over his team-mate.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off the back of nine consecutive second-place finishes, <strong>Iker Lecuona<\/strong>\u2019s goal is to secure his first career victory in the World Superbike Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Nicol\u00f2 Bulega (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #11)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe\u2019re in excellent form, not just in terms of results but also performance. We\u2019re coming off the back of an extraordinary weekend at Balaton, but what gives me the most confidence is the quality of the work we\u2019re doing with my team, managing to get on the right direction from Friday onwards and then improving further over the weekend\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iker Lecuona (Aruba.it Racing \u2013 Ducati #7)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI\u2019m approaching this round with great confidence. We\u2019re doing a great job with the team, and every time I get on my Ducati Panigale V4 R, I feel an ever-improving feeling with the bike. Nicol\u00f2 remains the benchmark, but we\u2019re closing the gap race by race.&nbsp;Most is a circuit I&nbsp;really&nbsp;like. That\u2019s why I think we can take another step forward.\u201d&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth round of the 2026 WorldSBK season gets underway tomorrow morning with the first free practice sessions at the Autodrom Most (Czech Republic). Having set the record for consecutive wins (16) in WorldSBK history two weeks ago in Hungary, Nicol\u00f2 Bulega will aim to extend his winning streak and increase his lead in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23744,"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-23743","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\/23743","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=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23749,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions\/23749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arubaracing.x-brain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}