ARUBA.IT RACING – FACTORY DUCATI
Double-WorldSBK champion Alvaro Bautista’s attempt to win the series fora third time in a row is made a bit more challenging by the new combined bike/rider minimum weight limit. This requires his bike to carry around 6kg of additional ballast and whilst he’s clearly not happy with this development, his performances at Round One, despite a crash in Race One, seem to suggest that he and the team are working the problem well. Even bigger news was 2023 World SuperSport champion Nicolò Bulega’s elevation to a factory seat in Superbikes and almost instant adaptation