Nicolo Bulega’s WorldSBK rookie season continued in its impressive fashion on Friday at Magny-Cours, the reigning Supersport World Champion finishing s꧋econd-fastest in FP2 in France.

It was a better start at Magny-Cours, where he hadn’t ridden a Superbike before this weekend, than in other circuits he was learning on a Sup๊erbike for the first time on a race weekend.

“I feel good because honestly sometimes on my first day at a new track with this bike it is a bit difficult,” Bulega told WorldSBK.com, “like a🦩t Most and Donington where I was struggling a little bit more on the first day. Then step-by-step I was getting faster.

“Today I already started well, because I felt good on the𓂃 bike from the first laps. So I’m happy and I’ll try to improve again tomorrow.”

The strong start means that Bulega, who c🔜urrently sits seventh in the riders’ standings after seven rounds,꧂ is targeting the podium from the first race this weekend.

“I always try to do my best when I jump on the bike and I go at my maximum so I will try to do the same as 🐼I’ve done alꦚl year,” he said. “I’ll try to fight for the podium if I can.”

With Toprak Razgatlioglu, who holds a 92-point lead coming into the ﷽French Round, out of action this weekend after suffering a collapsed lung in an FP2 crash, Magny-Cours suddenly presents Bulega with a perhaps unexpected opportunity to reduce his championship points deficit.