Axel Bassani makes Toprak Razgatlioglu, Marc Marquez comparison
Toprak Razgatlioglu “can do something more” according to Axel Bassani, who has compared him to Marcౠ Marquez.

Bimota WorldSBK rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Axel Bassani has compared 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, saying the Turkish ride🍃r “can do something m⛄ore” even if he doesn’t have the most competitive bike.
While Marquez is currently dominating the 2025 MotoGP season with the accepted best bike on the grid, the Ducati Desmosedici GP, all six of his premier class titles so far were won on the Honda RC213V, which was only rarely the clear best🅘 bike on the grid during the Spanish rider’s time with HRC.
In many cases, Marquez’s successes we🅰re achieved by the rider overcoming a perceived performance deficit compared to other bikes, such as the Ducati between 2017–2019.
This is the basis for Bassani’s comparison between Marquez and Razgatlioglu, the two-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Champion being the 🦩only rider to have won a dry WorldSBK race on the BMW M1000 RR.
“I was faster than Toprak [Razgatlioglu],” Bassani said, as reported by WorldSBK.com, afte♚r battling with Razgatlioglu in Race 2 at last weekend's Wo✨rldSBK Dutch Round.
“I saw that he was in trouble꧒, when he was applying throttle, he was losing the front.
“It was difficult to o🔴vertake him as he’s always braking really hard, and on the straight he’s much faster than me.
“When he made a little mistakeܫ at turn eight or nine, I overtook him, but it was not easy. He’s one of the worst guys to overtake!
“I always say that, aꦕt the moment, Toprak is the best rider on the track. The BMW isn’t the same as last year, it has some problems, but Toprak is Toprak.
“He’s like Marc Marq꧙uez, even w𝐆hen the bike isn’t working, he can do something more.”
Bassani was able to secure Bimota’s first top-five with ಞits new Kawasaki-powered KB998 machine in Race 2 at Assen after the battle with Razgatlioglu.
“I’m really happy, especially for Bimota, because arriving in the top🔯-five in World Superbike is not easy because the level is really high,” Bassani told WorldSBK.com.
“[In Race 1] I really tried to arrive in P5, maybe too much – I did a mistake and I went down in the last lap – but today I did it so I’m really happy🐼.”
His fifth-place finis💯h also matched his best result on the Kawasaki ZX-10RR of last year, taken in Race 1 at the Italian Round at Cremona, which coincidentally is the next venue on the 2025 WorldSBK calendar, set for 2–4 May.
Going there off the back of a strong race in Assen is cause 💃for optimism🌸 for Bassani.
“I hope to have a good weekend because usually we have a lot o🐠f fans there [and] it’s always nice to do a good race for them,” he said.
“I wℱill try mඣy best. It will be our first ever time with the Bimota in Cremona, so I don’t know what to expect, we will see after Friday.
“I think we can do a good job, tod🔯ay we found something on the bike that is working, so I have a good feeling.”

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