The bike anticipated to guide Nicolo Brega to the 2026 WorldSBK title has been revealed.
After Brega completed second to Toprak Razgatrioglu previously two seasons, Ducati launched the most recent model of the Panigale V4 R for the 2006 World Superbike Championship season.
Razgatlioglu’s absence from this 12 months’s WorldSBK seems to have paved the way in which for Brega to win the title in 2026, however the Italian is the one participant to come back even remotely near Razgatlioglu’s degree within the final two years of the championship.
Nevertheless, poor climate situations at each Jerez and Portimao in January have restricted testing this winter, and the state of affairs isn’t as straightforward as Ducati had hoped heading into this 12 months.
The Aruba.it Racing Ducati group will even welcome a brand new rider along with Brega as Iker Lecuona joins from Honda. The Spanish rider has 4 years of expertise in World Superbike, throughout which period he has achieved three podiums. With this variation in group, and maybe extra importantly, change in automobile, we must always count on his podium proportion to extend dramatically.
As for the coloring, it is purple, which after all is no surprise for a Bologna model. On the whole, it follows an analogous pattern to current seasons the place WorldSBK paint is roughly on par with the livery utilized in MotoGP. This implies including white stripes to the design as a type of “throwback” component to commemorate Ducati’s one centesimal anniversary, which was based in 1926.
After finishing wet-weather testing in Europe, Ducati, together with the remainder of the group and producers, will instantly head to Australia for the ultimate pre-season take a look at and the primary race of the season at Phillip Island on February 16-17 and February 20-22, respectively.
