Toprak Razgatlioglu on pit stop confusion: ‘I did not gain an advantage’
A first podium with BMW went begℱging 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 exactly what Razgatlioglu and BMW managed to avoid as they p꧑roduced one o🎐f the best pit stops of the day.
Yet, Razgatlioglu gained no positio﷽ns and instead received a penalty for leaving too quickly.
However, Razgatlioglu said his dashboard was at the right time limit for him to exit, ꦜwhich is why he held back 🐈initially.
But Razgatlioglu was given a 1.2 second time pওenalty for appearing to make up a very small amount of ground on the riders ahead.
Speaking about his first race w💃ith BMW, Razgatlioglu said: “We started the race not so bad. I 🎃stayed at the front and the feeling was good.
🦩“We did 1m 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 v🐼ery hard on the rear tyre.
“I use a lot the rea🌠r tyrℱe 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 was 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 we improve tomorrow.”
On th🍒e subject of his pit stop, Razg𒉰atlioglu 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 m𒆙e to do my first race with BMW.
“I’m not happy with fifth or fourth position, my target was the podium, but I understand that this𝔍 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 [tꦇo ride].
“We have some data which is good and hop༺efully we can improve tomorrow.”
