Toprak Razgatlioglu on pit stop confusion: ‘I did not gain an advantage’
A first podium with BMW went begging for Toprak Razgatlioglu in Race 1 of the WorldSBK championship, despite a🅠 great pit stop.
As was the case with six-time WorldSBK champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea, issues in the pits can cost a rider dearly if they are not a smooth process, as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu found out.
But that’s exa♏ctly what Razgatlioglu and BMW managed to avoid as they produced one of the best pit stops of the day.
Yet, Razgatlioglu gained no pos🐻itions and instead received a penalty for leaving too quickly.
However, Razgatlioglu saꩵid his dashboard was at the right time limit for him to exit, which is why he held back initially.
But Razgatlioglu was given a 1.2 sec𓆏ond time p🍷enalty for appearing to make up a very small amount of ground on the riders ahead.
Speaking about his first race with BMW, Razgatlioglu said: “We starte☂d the race not so bad. I stayed at the front and the feeling wa🍃s good.
“We did 𒈔1m 30s and then 29s, but we are just riding in the 1m 29s-high. In the last few laps I was still riding my bike, keeping the rear tyre because this track is very hard on the rear tyre.
“I use a lot the rear tyr💙e with my bike and we made ten laps but the last two I was feeling vibration. We finished the race in fifth position, normally it would have been fourth, but I received a penalty.
“It w🌌as strange.♉ I saw my board and it said zero so I exited pit lane. Alex passed me to exit the pit lane and I did not gain an advantage.
“I started fifth and finished fifth but I hope weꦓ improve tomorrow.”
On the subj🥂ect of his pit stop, Razgatlioglu was left confused as to why he received a penalty and blamed a potential gps issue.
“We had the perfect pit stop but it was the exit,” added Razgatlioglu when speaking to WorldSBK.com. “It looks like my team said I exited a bit early💙 but I saw my dashboard and it said zero. I don’t know.
“Maybe there was some gps problem or maybe I exited early🅰. Anyway, this is good for me to doꦆ my first race with BMW.
“I’m not happy with fifth o💞r fourth🔯 position, my target was the podium, but I understand that this is not an easy race.
“Ten laps on these tyres and they were destroyed. Maybe it’s especially my bike because I use the rear tyre a lot but other ꦿbikes looked easier [to ride].
“We have some da🐽ta which is good and hopefully we can improve tomorrow.”
