Michael Van Der Mark on battle with Toprak: ‘I made a cheeky pass to wake him up’
Michael Van Der Mark carried on his momentum from Barcelona▨ after challenging for the podium in Assen.

After injuries derailed him during the last two seasons, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Van Der Mark finally appears to be back at his best following another positive WorldSBK performance at Assen.
Van Der Mark retur🍒ned to form in Barcelona before challenging for the podium places during Sunday’s double-header.꧅
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Van Der Mark ultimately came up short after going ‘back to✤ my old habi🐽ts’, but it’s clear that the addition of Toprak Razgatlioglu is helping the Dutch rider.
“It was nice to fight for the podium and stay with the top guys,” said Van Der Mark. “It has been awhile. In Barcelona I was pretty clo🅠se but here I could fight with them.
“Of course, I would have liked to be on the podium here in Assen. We tried, and came really close, but we have to stay realistic and iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🧜ᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt has been awhile since I’ve been in these positions and in this form.
“I struggled a bit𓃲 at the end of the rac♓e because I went back to my old habit of pushing a bit too hard in the wrong places.
“That’s why I lost the top group. Buꦰt I should be happy to see that we are making steps.”
When rain began to fall during Race 2 Van Der Mark was one of the🌸 riders that pushed on to try and claw back lost time.
And speaking about the conditions, Van Der Mark was happy to see🍎 the changeable conditions impact a race for the second time in two days.
“I thought, let it come. I will push more now! It was difficult because I did♛n’t really know how much rain there would be and how wet the track would be,” stated Van Der Mark.
🔯“Everybody was looking at each oth🅺er but this was my time to close the gap and I managed to do it but it was really difficult. Also really fun.
For the first time this season Van Der Mark was able to challenge Razgatlioglu, finishing ahead of him in the Superpole Race before overtaking the eventual Race 2 winner ea🔯rly on in the second feature race.

Dis𝔉cussing the battle with Razgatlioglu, Van Der Mark jokingly said: “It was nice to battle with them but I started to push in the w💝rong areas.
“I was back in my old habit and that’s why we lost it, but that’s wh🐽y we compare with🦹 Toprak.
“I have to work on this. It was fantastic. I saw in the race how strong heꦿ was and I made a cheeky little pass on him to wake him up a bit.
“It was ꦕnice to fight with him and it was fantastic to see him take this win.”