Razgatlioglu put together two phenomenal performances on Sunday at Portimꦕao, as he challenged Alvaro Bautista until the very last corner in both races.

Clearly down on straight-line speed, Razgatlioglu was riding beyond the limi🎃t to make up for lost time in sectors one, two and three.

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Eve💮ry ti🎶me Bautista passed Razgatlioglu, which was with ease coming out of the final corner, Razgatlioglu took huge risks at turns one, three and five to regain the lead.

It meant the lead changed hands over 35 times beജtween the pair before Bautista pipped Razgatlioglu across the line.

After giving his heart and soul to try and win Razgat♏lioglu broke down in parc ferme, but the plaudits were quick to come in from his team manager.

Denning told WorldSBK.com: “Stout defence and incredible atta🦄ck if you consider the moves into Tu♓rn 5; down the hill and off-camber. 

“Into Turn 13, taking the bike from a lot of bank angle and j꧒ust throwing it to the inside. The defence and🙈 re-passes into Turn 1 at the end of the straight were thrilling to watch. 

“As the race went on, I started to believe a little bit it might happen. It was just a relentless sense of never, evꦅer, ever giving up and trying to make it happen. 

“There was this cloud of inevitability, let’s say, that the performance of Alvaro and the package in the last corner and the acceleration up♕ the hill and onto the straight, almost whatever Toprak did was going to create that final result.&💧nbsp;

“Toprak rid✃es aggressively but he’s so respectful. It was a fabulous race.”

Portimao was expected to be a strong circuit for D𒁃ucati and Bautista, ജwhich is exactly how it turned out to be.

But Razgatliไoglu made all three👍 races a lot closer than they should have been.

“To hold that pace over 20 laps, in those temperatureℱs, with the performance deficit and weight disadvantage that’s c🌞learly there on acceleration and also it makes it more difficult to stop the bike as well,” added Denning. 

“It was pretty incredible and an amazinꦑg show. Toprak’s all in and the only thing that would’ve made him hap𒁏py was winning. 

“To get beat by a tenth in the last corner in the Superpole Race and then for that to be repeated after everything he achieved in the 20 laps was frustrating ꩵto say the least. 

“We lost a windscreen after the Superpole Race. Honestly, I’ve never seen Toprak as he was after Race 2. He was devastated. He was in tears because𒈔 he got beat. 

“I think, when you leave that much out there, and you ride probably your best race of your life on the best package we could ever have given him, and you st🌼ill get beat, his emotionꦇs came through then.”