Nicolo Bulega secured a third c෴areer WorldSBK race win in 🎀Race 2 at Magny-Cours, rebounding after a tough Saturday.

Bulega had qualified on the front row in Superpole, but crashed on the first lap of Race 1. He’d hurt his shoulder in the process, which complicated his Sunday, but also made his Superpole Race-Race 2 dou❀ble on Sunday all the more important.

“It’s incredible,” B⭕ulega told WorldSBK.com. “I needed a day like this after Saturday because that was a very bad day for us. I was fast all weekend from the beginning, but it was very difficult to put it all together especially with the strange weather conditions.

“I felt that I had the speed, but it was𒊎 difficult to put it all together.

“Today, finally, I put it all to🌞gether and won the Su💃perpole Race and Race 2.

“It’s incredible, thanks to all m🍸y team and all the doctors because they helped me have less pain after Race 1’s huge crash.”

Bulega’s strategy for success in Race 2 had been a simple one: push from the start to create a gap, so that any fatigue in his injured shoulder would be less impactful on the result if i🗹t started to emerge in the second half🉐 of the race.

“I tried to push a lot f♚rom the beginning because I knew that maybe from half race distance, I could start to have problems with my🌊 shoulder,” Bulega explained. “I tried to make a gap in the opening laps, so I was able to reduce the rhythm a little bit at the end of the race if I needed to.

“Petrucci was very fast today so I tried to maintain the gap.𝔍 In the end, it was a perfect race.”

Bulega’s double triumph on Sunday came after Toprak Razgatlioglu crashed out of t🧸he weekend on Friday, suffering a collapsed lung in an FP2 ꦇcrash.

His wins mean that the Italian is ♛now 55 points behind the Turkish rider, who had won 13 races in a row before the French Round, ahead of another home race for Bulega at Cremona in two weeks.

“I’m really sorry that Toprak [Razgatlioglu] had this problem because he crashed in a very fast and difficult poi🀅nt,” Bulega said.

“I knew that I had theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤🅷⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ opportunity to take some points and I tried to do my best today; I tried also on Saturday, but it wasn’t like Sunday.

“Toprak will be very fast l🃏ike always, so he’ll be strong. I don’t know if can beat him but, for sure, I will try.”