With the potential of Nicolo Brega changing Marc Marquez on the horizon, the WorldSBK common has accomplished his first take a look at aboard a Ducati MotoGP bike.
Brega, who completed second to Aruba.it Racing Ducati’s manufacturing unit staff’s Toprak Razgatlioglu within the 2025 Superbike World Championship, could be an apparent selection to switch injured Marc Marquez (who has been sidelined since breaking his proper shoulder in a collision with Marco Bezzecchi on the Indonesian Grand Prix), if Michele Pirro isn’t chosen.
Pirro, Ducati’s official MotoGP take a look at rider, changed Marquez within the Ducati Lenovo staff for the Australian and Malaysian MotoGP races, however misplaced tempo and completed 18th and seventeenth at Phillip Island and Sepang respectively.
Pirro would not appear to have the power to attain factors, and in any case Ducati has received all three MotoGP titles this yr, so any factors earned now could be comparatively ineffective for the model, particularly if Brega himself received MotoGP in 2026. Bearing in mind the potential of taking cost of toGP testing and shifting to MotoGP full-time in 2027, selecting MotoGP to have Brega within the manufacturing unit alongside Francesco Bagnaia is beginning to make sense for Ducati.
The time on the bike now will assist Brega rise up to hurry for the long run, and his one-off race later this yr might be utilized in half by Ducati and different producers to evaluate Brega’s viability as a MotoGP rider.
Nonetheless, Brega was clear that he wanted to check the MotoGP bike earlier than racing.
Brega will be capable of journey the Desmosedici on the Circuit de Jerez to Circuit Ángel Nieto, and this requirement is at the moment fulfilled. Lower than two weeks in the past, Brega received all three races of the season’s ultimate WorldSBK Spherical 3 and set a time adequate in Superpole to equal 14th place within the MotoGP race earlier this yr.
No instances have been revealed for Brega’s take a look at, which ran alongside WorldSBK’s Michelin tire take a look at, and it’s but to be confirmed whether or not Brega will substitute Marquez within the subsequent MotoGP race in Portimao from November 7-9.
