Nicolo Bulega to replace Marc Marquez in Portugal and Valencia

https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2025/10/31/nicolo-bulega-to-replace-marc-marquez-in-portugal-and-valencia/762638

Interesting! I remember Bulega was a brilliant young rider, then struggled in Moto3 and Moto2, so he went off to World Superbikes, where he's done extremely well.

It will be so interesting to see what he does with a Ducati MotoGP bike. People on Reddit said his lap times are already very fast.

Pirro was good, but he is nearly 40 and I think past his prime. Bulega will be a good test rider in the Ducati team to help them in 2026.

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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d (1 reply)

This is amazing. Bulega and Toprak are a class above everybody else in WSBK so I'm excited to see what he can do on the factory bike.

WordNerd@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 306d

It is exciting isn't it! I just read that Bulega became too tall for the smaller bikes, he's 5'10" or something, so that was part of his problem with them.