BMW World Superbike boss Shaun Muir ꦡsays Toprak Razgatlioglu’s form in 2024 and the fact he is gunning for the title is “unthinkable”.

The 2021 WSBK champion stepped away from Yamaha at the end of last year to join the fact꧙ory BMWꩵ squad.

With BMW enjoyi♋ng limited success prior to Razgatlioglu’s arrival, the Turkish superstar has won 15 races in 202ꦅ4 - including the last 13 in a row.

It’s 🦩put him comfortably in the lead of the standings heading to Magny-Cours, 92 points clear of Ducati’s Nicolo Bulega.

Reflecting on the season so far, Mu⭕ir says the team is having to “keep our feet on the ground”, but notes there has been “a shift ℱin the tide” since the Misano round.

“༺We’re having to pinch ourselves and keep our feet on the ground,” Muir told WorldSBK.com.

✅“We started off in quite a measured fashion coming out of the winter tests in December, coming to Portimao in January.

“I think Toprak’s confidence was super high already at that point so when we went to Australia, we had a mechanꩵical DN𓆏F which really upset everybody because we just didn’t expect it.

“We came out of Australia with quite a bit to gain and then g🅺oing to Barcelona was just a sensational switch in our expectations.

“If you askꦓed what our expectations before the season started were, we would’ve said finishing 🌠in the top three and winning six races would’ve been a good target for Toprak.

“I think everyone could see the target bar was getting lifted higher and higher and, especially after there were some fundamental moments; the first one being the performance at Barcelona which was q▨uite sensational on a predomina🌜tely Ducati track.

“Equally, going to Misano and doing what he did there, in what was prob✱ably Ducati’s backyard, was a shift in the tide really and that momentum’s carried on and here we ar♌e in this position where it’s just kind of totally unthinkable.

“We’re redefin✨ing our scope an𝔉d aligning everyone and trying to keep our feet on the ground.”

For Muir, who has enjoyed success on the national scene in Britain and on the world s🌜tage, he believes Razgatlioglu winning the title this year would be the highlight of his career.

“Every week, we move the bar somewhere d൲ifferently,” h♍e added.

“I think what really stands out for me is that the𓆉 group’s got tighter and I think that comes from all the really tough times we had from ’19 onwards where we couldn’🥀t grind a point out at some races.

“Overall, I think we’re going to get to a position, whether it be Aragon, Estoril, or Jerez, where Toprak – fingers crossed – can lift that trophy, I can see that probably being the highlight of my racing carꦕeer whether that’s as a rider, manager or operator.”