Nicolo Bulega’s eye-catching pace in MotoGP testing has contributed to the reported move to the VR46 for the 2027 season.
It has been widely discussed in recent days Bullega gets the VR46 seat With Fermin Aldeguerre, whose arrival from Gresini had recently been an open secret.
Fabio Di Giannantonio is going to KTM, while Franco Morbidelli can drop the MotoGP grid. Completely. Bulega’s reigning World Superbike Championship record 22 consecutive victories has come to an end.
Which series will benefit more from Nicolo Bulega’s move: MotoGP or Superbikes?
Bulega ran away with this year’s WCSB Championship.
Niccolo Bulega leads MotoGP test riders on Ducati 850cc
As he says Speed weekis the signature ‘all that’s missing’ from Bulega’s MotoGP contract. Rossi made his decision by looking at Morbidelli, half-brother Luca Marini and academy rider Celestino Vetti.
At the end of 2025 his WSBK performances raised his profile and he scored points when deputizing for the injured Marc Marquez, the pace of the test proving to be his ‘main argument’.
He joined Ducati’s test team this year and ‘impressed everyone’ at Borgo Pangale. As of the latest 2027 prototype, it has been speculated to be much slower than the current bikes. Bulega gets within two seconds of Francesco Bagnaia’s lap record and Misano.
Who should fill the 2027 satellite seats?
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He was also one to two seconds faster than KTM’s Dani Pedrosa, Yamaha’s Augusto Fernandez and Aprilia’s Lorenzo Savadori, who were riding 850cc motorcycles in the privateer session.
Bulega was previously part of the VR46 Academy.But they parted ways at the end of 2019 after a disappointing debut campaign in Moto2.
He will have the Supersport and Superbike world titles behind him when he joins as a fully qualified MotoGP rider.
open He renews his rivalry with Toprak Razgatlioglu in the Grand Prix. Both drivers could have an advantage next year due to their experience on Pirelli tyres.
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