Nicolo Bulega won the Supersport world title this season and made himself be worthy of a place at the Ducati factory in the Superbikes. After his first tests earlier this week at Jerez, the italian didn’t hide his desire to be better than everybody else, even from his teammate, the world champion Alvaro Bautista.
Bulega, still at a very first stage of his work with the new team spoke of the job done in the first two days: ‘It was very good but unfortunately, we didn’t ride a lot during these two days. On day one, we only did 20 laps. On day two, we did half a day. I’m happy because I didn’t ride a lot but I was already fast. I was fast, but I was at 85%. I’m learning the bike, learning to speak with my new team so it’s important for me to do a lot of kilometres with this bike’.
As for what his teammate have done, Bulega confesses he has no clue, not showed right away his determination to beat everyone on track, despite the difficulties he expects: ‘Honestly, I don’t know what kind of work Alvaro did. I don’t want to beat Alvaro, I would like to beat everybody! Alvaro is now the reference point for Ducati because he’s the best. He’s fast and it’ll be very difficult to beat him’.
And gave then a brief comparison from the new bike to that he used this season: ‘We still have a lot of work to do and I’m still trying to learn the bike to understand better the DNA of this bike because it’s more difficult than WorldSSP. It’s all more. More brakes, more engine, more electronics’.