Nicolo Bulega has the chance to take the World Superbike points lead at the Italian WorldSBK this weeke𓂃nd, 🍨but that is not providing any additional pressure, he insists.

Bulega has a 55-point deficit to Toprak Razgatlioglu in the riders’ standings after eight rounds, but the Turkish rider is absent from the Italian Round ෴this weekend as he continue🦋s to recover from injuries he sustained in practice at the French Round two weeks ago.

The situation, both in terms of the points and t▨he absence of the championship leader, was not increasing the pressure on the Italian, he said.

“I honestly don’t think 🌊about the championship now,” Bulega told WorldSBK.com. “I just want to go race by race, and try to fight for the podium every race. Then, the last race of the season, we will see.

“No pressure because it’s just my job. I have to 𓄧do my job like always. It’s just motorbike racing, so no pressure.”

Perhaps, rather than the championship battle, the biggest concern🐈 for Bulega after Friday in Cremona was his feeling on-track.

“Honestly, to🐠day I didn’t have a very good feeling,” he sai🐬d.

“I think my riding style is not so good for this circuit. So, I have to adapt, I have to do something different than usual in this track, we have tꦯo work a lot be🀅cause I have to ride over some problems.

“I hope tomorrow to enter [the track] and h🐬ave a bette🌜r feeling from the beginning.”

Expanding more on the “problems” he is having 🎉to ride around, Bulega implied that a par💟t of his problem is his own physical condition, after suffering right shoulder injuries in his Race 1 crash at Magny-Cours.

“In general I didn’t feel [very] comfortable on the bike,” he said. “[It was] difficult to push like I want, so I’m still at 80 per cent and I cannot ride like I want. So, we have to wor♉k, because we have the potential to be much faster.”