Nicolo Bulega secured a third career WorldSBK race win in Race 2 at Magny-Cours, rebounding after a toug🍸h Saturday.

Bulega had qualified on the front row in Superpole, but crashed on the first lap of Race 🦹1. He’d hurt his shoulder in the process, which complicated his Sunday, but also made his Superpole Race-Race 2 double on Sunday all the more important.

“It’s incredible,” Bulega told WorldSBK.com. “I needed a day like this after🙈 Saturday because that was a very bad day for us. I was fast all weekend from the beginning, but it was very difficult to put it all together especia♕lly with the strange weather conditions.

“I felt that ไI had the spe𒐪ed, but it was difficult to put it all together.

“Today, finally, I put it all together and won the Superpole Race and R🤡ace 2.

“It’s incredible, thanks to all my team aওnd all the doctors because they helped me have less pain after Race🐎 1’s huge crash.”

Bulega’s strategy for success in Race 2 had been a simpl🍷e one: push from the start to create a gap, so that any fatigue in his injured shoulder w♛ould be less impactful on the result if it started to emerge in the second half of the race.

“I tried to push a lot from the beginning because I knew that𓆏 maybe from half race distance, I could start to have problems with my shoulder,” Bulega explained. “I tried to make a gap in the opening laps, so I was able to reduce the rhythm a little bit at the end of the race if I needed to.

“Petrucci was very fast today so I tried to maintain the gap. In the 🥂end, it was a perfect rac🔯e.”

Bulega’s dou✱ble triumph on Sunday came after Toprak Razgatlioglu crashed out of thဣe weekend on Friday, suffering a collapsed lung in an FP2 crash.

His wins mean that the🐼 Italian iꦫs now 55 points behind the Turkish rider, who had won 13 races in a row before the French Round, ahead of another home race for Bulega at Cremona in two weeks.

“I’m really sorry that Toprak [Razgatlioglu] had this problem because he crashed in 🎉a very fast and difficult point,” Bulega said🌟.

“I knew that I had the opportunity ꦚto take some points and I tried to do my best today; I tried also on Saturday, but it wasn’t like Sunday.

“Toprak will be very fast like always, so he’ll be strong. I don’t know if can beat him but, for sure, I will🌸 try.”