Toprak Razgatlioglu puts BMW in WorldSBK title lead, ties Haga, targets 'dream' triple

Toprak Razgatlioglu sets💟 his sights on a clean ♕sweep at Misano after taking the title lead by winning Saturday’s Race 1.

Toprak Razgatlioglu, Misano 2024
Toprak Razgatlioglu, Misano 2024

Victory in race one at Misano on Saturday also made 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu the first BMW rider to lead the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike championship since Marco Melandri in 2012.

Razgaꦦtlioglu’s fourth win of the sea🔯son was rarely in doubt, passing Remy Gardner for the lead on lap 4 and then riding to a 1.8s victory over the Ducati of Nicolo Bulega.

Third place for Bulega’s Ducati team-mate Alvaro Bautista cost the reigning champܫion the title lead to Razgatlioglu by three poꦆints heading into Sunday’s races.

“Really strong race, for everyone, because of the hot condition. The bike was jus𓄧t spinning and especially I was feeling a lot of locking from the front tyre, because I use hard front tyre,” Razgatlioglu told the offici🌜al WorldSBK website.

“I'm just focused to ride a bike and 🌠try to do a good pace, but finally we win. I’m happy and now we are the championship leader, but I'm not focused this.

“I'm just focused tomorrow because I have two mor�♑�e races. I'll try my best again because this is my dream, my target; three race wins. We will see tomorrow.”

Quizzed on why, unlike ꦕhis rivals, he had chosen the hard SC2 front tyre, Razgatlioglu replied:

“In ꦡthe hot conditions I like a harder tyre. But also this one after 10-12 laps I feel a lot of movement. But I kept fightingꦿ because I really need to win.

“But tomorrow I🐭 need to improve the bike because after 10 laps especially I need some more grip.”

But he will join his rivals on the SC1 for the shorter Suౠperpole race.

“For 10 laps, I don't n𝄹eed to save the rear tyre and I'll use also the SC1 front tyre,” he said. “I think we will be pushing more than today because 10 laps and also not really hot conditions at 11am.

“But we will see tomorrow. I'm just really focused on Race 2 because tomorrow looks꧒ even more hot than today. And I think we will feel the same situation, the heat and sliding, so looks like we need to improve bike.”

Razgatlioglu is now tied with Noriyuki Haga on 43 🌼wins, fo𝓡r joint fifth on the all-time WorldSBK winners’ list behind Jonathan Rea (119), Alvaro Bautista (61), Carl Fogerty (59) and Troy Bayliss (52).

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