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Bulega Stops The Rot At Aragon A s the MotoGP Champion- ship was decided in Japan five weekends early, WorldSBK offered up three superb fights be- tween this year's big two. It looks like their personal battle will go to the final round in Jerez, unless something mad happens in the penultimate round at Estoril. It was a game of Ducati swings and BMW roundabouts at Aragon, as the psychological advantage was ripped from one grasp only to be wrestled back by another. There was a new track best in Superpole qualifying as both championship leader Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) and his only title-fighting rival, Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Duca - ti), got stuck into each other and the stopwatch. Bulega hit it hardest, with a new track best of 1:47.332, easing out Razgatlioglu by just 0.110 of a second, and surprise third-place rider (after taking a tow from his brother, Sam) Alex Lowes (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team), who was only 0.159 of a second back. With the front row fixed, the only question was whether To - prak could win at a track he had never won at before. The answer was a final yes, but it was a great fight between the two big brawling beasts of 2025, followed closely by the other Lowes boy, Sam (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team Ducati), on the Saturday podium. Razgatlioglu could not get away and completely clear in race one, but with around a five- tenths-of-a-second advantage at the end of the penultimate lap, it looked like he had done just enough by then. Bulega, setting the fastest lap of the race on the 18th and very last lap, no less, closed in with a tighter line that the BMW could not hold. Leaving a black line on the apex of the final left-hander as he opened the gas, the man who would be Ducati's new king got to within three-hundredths of a second of his rival's win. Razgatlioglu celebrated wildly as he crossed the line, as Bulega slapped his bike's screen and WIND IN THE P50 Nicolo Bulega (11) took the fight to Toprak Razgatlioglu (1) and came up trumps with two wins from three starts in Spain.