Toprak Razgatlioglu: “When I signed for BMW, everyone said I’m crazy”

“�ꦉ�This is the final round and we’ve almost got the title.”

Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2024 Estoril WorldSBK, grid. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2024 Estoril WorldSBK, grid. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Toprak Ra♏zgatlioglu is within touching distance of his second WorldSBK title this weekend at the Spanish World Superb💧ike round in Jerez.

Razgatlioglu enters the weekend with a 46-point lead over Ducati’s Nicolo Bulega, and the Italian hasn’t b♚eaten Razgatlioglu in a full-length race since Race 2 at the Catalanꦏ Round back in March.

Despite the stakes this weekend, Razgatlioglu assured that🥀 his target in Jerez is to win races; which he almost did last year in Jerez, before being penalised in Race 2 for touching 💦the green paint on the outside of the final corner on the last lap.

“I’m feeling good because we come back to Je꧟rez again,” Razgatlioglu told WorldSBK.com ahead of this weekenꩵd’s Jerez decider.

“Last year, I lost the race in the last corner. It’ll be completelไy different th♔is year on the BMW. My target is to win the race.”

As far as the championship is concerned, Razgatlioglu takes comfor🎶t from his “really big” points advantage.

“A 46-poin𝄹t margin is a really big gap,” he said. “If I finish the race in P2 or P3, I’ll win the championship. I know this, but s🅘till my target is to win the race.

“In 2021, I hadꦓ the same. P3 is also enough for me, but I’m always loo𓆏king for P1. I hope we get this because it’s important for me.

“When I signed for BMW, everyone said I’m crazy many times but now everyone’s started to believe in BMWꦕ and me.

“This is the final round and we’ve almost got the♑ title. I hope we’re World Champions.

“It’s been an incredible season for me to rid🔯e the BMW and nobody believed me.

“First ye꧂ar and we could be World Champion, this is incredible for my career and also for BMW because they’ve never been World Champions on two w𓄧heels.”

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