Nicolo Bulega turned the Aragon round of the World Superbike Championship into a personal exhibition, sweeping all three races at MotorLand to extend his astonishing winning run to 22 in succession and equal one of the series' most imposing modern records.
Having opened the weekend with victory in Saturday's Race 1, the factory Ducati rider returned on Sunday to win the Tissot Superpole Race and then the full-length Race 2, completing his sixth hat-trick of the season. That haul matches the mark Alvaro Bautista set in his title-winning 2023 campaign, and underlines just how comprehensively Bulega has stamped his authority on the championship.
If anything, the Sunday morning sprint proved the sterner test. Bulega gambled on the harder SC0 rear tyre while his closest rivals fitted the softer SCX, setting up an absorbing strategic battle that he was forced to manage from the front. He held off teammate Iker Lecuona, Sam Lowes and the fast-starting Alberto Surra to take the chequered flag, with Ducati locking out the podium.
"It was very important to win here," Bulega said, before admitting the Superpole Race had been "the hardest of this season."
Race 2 followed a more familiar script. Bulega launched cleanly when the lights went out and quickly stretched clear, while behind him an early incident accounted for Lorenzo Baldassarri and Xavi Vierge, both of whom were able to walk away. From there the front of the field settled into another factory Ducati one-two-three, Lecuona again taking second ahead of Lowes in third.
For the chasing pack, the weekend was a reminder of how fine the margins now are simply to get near the leader. The riders sharing the rostrum spoke of small mistakes proving decisive against an opponent operating at the very limit, with even the smallest error enough to extinguish any hope of fighting for the win.
The clean sweep tightens Bulega's grip on the title race and continues a streak that has begun to invite comparison with the most dominant runs the championship has seen. Records were tumbling all weekend at Aragon, and the Ducati rider was at the centre of almost every one of them.
Attention now turns to whether anyone on the grid can find a way to halt the run before it stretches further into the record books. On current form, the rest of the World Superbike field is left chasing a moving target, with Bulega showing no sign of easing off and Ducati's factory machine looking the class of the field at every type of circuit the season has thrown at it so far.
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