BIOGRAPHY
ORIGINS AND EARLY SUCCESS
Nicolò Bulega is an Italian motorcycle racer currently competing in the Superbike World Championship with the official Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team. He is today one of the benchmarks of Italian motorcycling and the reference rider for the Borgo Panigale manufacturer in the production-based classes.
His career began early, shaped by a strong family tradition in motorsport. He climbed on a bike for the first time at age 4 and soon made his competitive debut. His immediate talent showed with wins in the 2007 Italian and European Minimoto Championships, followed by the titles of Italian MiniGP 50 Champion (2010) and Italian PreGP 125 Champion (2011) — results that placed him among the most promising prospects in the Italian youth scene and propelled him toward the international stage.
In 2014 he was selected to join the VR46 Riders Academy, marking the start of his international career under the guidance of Valentino Rossi and his technical staff. Joining the Academy was the official recognition of the talent he had shown in the youth categories and opened the doors of the world circuit.
In 2015 he won the Spanish Road Racing Championship (CEV Moto3) after a hard-fought season, becoming the first Italian to claim the Junior world title. A historic result that confirmed the quality of his development path and launched him definitively into Grand Prix racing.
His Moto3 World Championship debut came in 2016 with the Sky Racing Team VR46: in his first full season he quickly posted strong results, including a pole position at Jerez, two podiums, and a seventh-place overall finish — one of the best rookie seasons ever produced by an Italian rider in the class.
Across 2017 and 2018 he continued in the lightweight class, consolidating his technical experience and race-weekend management despite a few injuries that affected his consistency of results. In 2019 he stepped up to Moto2, still under VR46 colours, tackling a much more demanding intermediate class both physically and in terms of riding style.
