Bulega takes his nineteenth victory of the 2026 season

For the Pirelli Emilia-Romagna WSBK Round Ducati’s Nicolo Bulega was continuing his dominance of the WorldSBK championship, Bulega was on pole position, setting a blistering lap record time of 1:31.343 around the Misano circuit. Bulega’s team-mate Iker Lecuona qualified in second place, with Bimota’s Alex Lowes rounding out the front row of the grid.

Lights out for the first time of round seven at Misano for the WSBK championship, Lecuona lead the WSBK field into turn one. All riders were safely through the first few corners.

Bulega took control of the race passing his team-mate for the lead of the race. Axel Bassani was putting team-mate under pressure for fourth place. Alvaro Bautista looked to be struggling at Misano, the Spaniard was down in 15th place.

Stand in Honda rider Ryan Vickers crashed out at turn 14 with 18 laps to go. Bulega was flying at the front with almost a second lead to his team-mate and Yari Montella. Lorenzo Baldassarri crashed out at turn five, another non scoring of points for the Italian rider.

Sam Lowes was closing in on the Bimota’s until he made a slight mistake at turn five and crashed out. Bassani passed Alex for fourth place. Miguel Oliveria was having a solid ride in eighth place after returning from an injury.

Another solid performance for Alberto Surra running in sixth place. Bautista and Taz Mackenzie were fighting for a top ten finish.

With just five laps to go Bulega had over a five second lead to Lecuona. Bautista passed Remy Gardner to get inside the top ten, next on Alvaro’s list was Yamaha’s Stefano Manzi. Gardner crashed out at turn eight! which promoted Taz to tenth place.

Bulega crossed the line to take his nineteenth victory of the season, Lecuona was second, Montella was third, Bassani finished in fourth place, with Alex finishing in fifth place.

Featured Image: Ducati Corse.