MotoGP Assen: Sofuoglu: Toprak free to speak with any factory MotoGP team for 2024
♛Reigning WorldSBK champion Razgatlioglu made his lon🐲g-awaited MotoGP debut during a private test with Yamaha at Aragon earlier this week.
But with the official ♔;Yamaha team already re-signing MotoGP champion Fabio Quartararo alongside Franco Morbidelli, there is no place for Razgatlioglu next season.
With Morbidelli’s contract running for just one more year, that could change for 2024, when Sofuoglu made c�🦹�lear they will be free to speak with any MotoGP team.
💖However, he again emphasised that Razgatlioglu will only join MotoGP with a factory team.
“If [Toprak] comes to MotoGP [it will be] only in an official team. Without an official team we are not interested,” five-time WSS champion Sofuoglu told Dorna’s Jack Appl♔eyard at Assen.
“The Yamaha factory team is full, that means we will be in WorldSBK next season. But in 2024 we are able to speaꦚk with any brand, any MotoGP team.
“But one thing is very clear. If Topr♏ak comes to the MotoGP paddock, he will not come with a B team. He will come to MotoGP only with an official team.
“Without an official team, Toprak will stay in WorldSBK. This is my experience🐠 in my career and I’m going to put my riders only in official ꧒teams.”
Unfortunately for Razgatlioglu, the two-year nature of most factory😼 MotoGP team contracts means Morbidelli’s seat might again be the only official team vacanꩵcy for 2024.
Razgatlioglu, 25, is currently third in this year’s WorldSBK standings, behind Alvaro Bautista (Ducati) and Jo꧒nathan Rea (Kawasaki).
Yamaha's MotoGP presence will be reduced to only a factory team next season, with RNF switching🌜 to Aprilia machine𒉰ry.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentin෴o Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
