Aragon 2026, Race 2: Bulega always further up

No way: in the eighteen races disputed in this first half of the championship, Nicolò Bulega has always finished as the winner. If you add the four other victories obtained at the end of last season to this undisputed dominance, the positive streak of successes becomes even more impressive, with the world leader present on the top step of the podium in no less than 22 consecutive races. No one has therefore managed to interrupt the magical moment of #11, not even his teammate Iker Lecuona, the only one who in the Aragon Superpole Race had nevertheless seemed close to achieving this feat after a good fight for 1st place. Also in Race 2, the Spaniard had to settle for second position in front of his home crowd, with another impressive statistic: thanks to these results, the official Ducati team conquered its 15th consecutive one-two finish, in a weekend where the Borgo Panigale manufacturer monopolized the podium also thanks to the 3rd place of Sam Lowes, in the same final position also in Race 1 and in Superpole Race.

Race Report

Unlike the difficulties experienced in this morning’s Superpole Race, Bulega managed to control the race lead from the start, with Lecuona always remaining in second place ahead of Sam Lowes. The fight for the podium immediately ended for Baldassarri, out along with Vierge after contact between the two. From the second lap, Bulega consistently pulled away from Lecuona, with Lowes steadily in third place and followed by his brother Alex. In the fight for the top 5, Surra repelled Bassani’s attack on lap 7, only to be overtaken by his compatriot two laps later. For the Motocorsa team rider, it was the beginning of the crisis, with the Turin native also overtaken by two-time world champion Bautista and Gerloff. In the final laps of the race, the American Kawasaki rider passed the former Ducati rider, thus climbing back up to 6th place.

Aragon, Race 2: finishing order

POS.	RIDER	BIKE	TIME/GAP
1	Nicolò Bulega	Ducati	18 laps
2	Iker Lecuona	Ducati	+0.786
3	Sam Lowes	Ducati	+6.506
4	Alex Lowes	Bimota	+12.413
5	Axel Bassani	Bimota	+14.351
6	Garrett Gerloff	Kawasaki	+16.317
7	Alvaro Bautista	Ducati	+18.023
8	Alberto Surra	Ducati	+18.530
9	Thomas Bridewell	Ducati	+18.974
10	Michael van der Mark	BMW	+19.824
11	Tarran MacKenzie	Ducati	+24.639
12	Remy Gardner	Yamaha	+25.864
13	Andrea Locatelli	Yamaha	+25.919
14	Stefano Manzi	Yamaha	+27.035
15	Somkiat Chantra	Honda	+31.608
16	Bahattin Sofuoglu	Yamaha	+43.539
17	Mattia Rato	Yamaha	+46.789
18	Hannes Soomer	BMW	+1:21.427
19	Yari Montella	Ducati	Retirement
20	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Ducati	Retirement
21	Xavi Vierge	Yamaha	Retirement

Next event

The second half of the 2026 championship will begin with a weekend not to be missed for Italian fans: from June 12 to 14 will indeed host the Emilia-Romagna Round, the first of two events scheduled in our country. The track that will host Superbike will be Misano Adriatico.

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