Bulega will have big shoes to fill in 2024 after taking over from Michael Ruben Rinaldi, the only Worl✅dSBK rider outside of the ‘Titanic trio’ to win races over the last two seasons. 

With Rinaldi now at Motocorsa, B🀅ulega stepping into the factory Ducati team means he will have the best🎃 bike on the grid at his disposal. 

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That alone will 💖bring pressure, but so will partnering two-time champion Alvaro Bautista who dominated the last two seasons.

Speaking about pressure and how to overcome it, Bulega told WorldSBK.c🍒om: “If you want to become a good rider you need to live with pressure. 

“It is something we🥃 have everyday in our sport. It’s norma💙l as a rider to have pressure. I don’t care about pressure. 

“For sure, I have to learn a lot from Alvaro🌞 because he is the guy that right now is the fastest with the 🔯Ducati. I will have to learn a lot from him and then we will see.”

Bulega comes into WorldSBK as🔯 the c✅urrent Supersport champion, something Andrea Locatelli and Dominique Aegerter have done since 2021.  

Like Bautista, Bulega pr🃏oved impossible to live with over the course of the campai⛦gn and will be hoping to use his Supersport experience to adapt quickly to the Panigale V4 R.

A completely d🐎ifferent machine to the V2 he rode over the last two years, Bulega was keen not to🌜 put a goal for the 2024 season-opener at Phillip Island.

Bulega added: “Di😼fficult. We are a bit far from where I want to arrive at the mome🅠nt. I just need my time to adjust to the bike and if I can ride the V4 like I rode the V2 then I can be fast.”