The Yamaha rider is the only🌠 other rider to have won a WorldSBK rac🐼e so far this season, which came during the Superpole Race at Mandalika.

However, Razgatlioglu𓃲’s impressive performance has still been overshadowed by Bautista, with the reigning world champion having been in a league of his own through four rounds. 

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Razgatlioglu to🌜ok his first win of 2022 at Misano, so it’s likely that the Turkish star will again be co🤪mpetitive this weekend, especially after the recent two-day test where his race pace was phenomenal.

Yet, the clear favourite r🍬emains Bautista, who like Razgatlioglu was also a winner at Misano last season. 

Speaking ahead of the weekend, Razgatlioglu has not hidden his intentions: "In testing, we did a very good job – especiallyꦇ with race simulation, I am very strong. 

"But, I know Bautista is normally very strong in Misano! My target is to win in the long race, not just the short race. I like the Misano traꦯck and the race pace this year is for me much better, but we will see because the race is always d💧ifferent from testing! 

"I tr🗹y to do my best, this year I am still fighting for the championship and it lookꦅs like it is still possible we can be champion. 

"We will see, I will try my best in Misano – if we can win two races, three race෴s, I don’t know we will 💜see – I just try to win every race."

Locatelli aiming to hit the ground running at home WorldSBK round

Third in the standings, Andrea Locatelli has made his best start to a Superbik🤪e season since joining the series in 2021.

Much closer to Razgatlioglu in terms of pace, the Italian has been a constant 🌱threat for the podium,🌞 something he hopes to continue at Misano.

Locatelli added: "It’s more or less my ‘home race’ because we race in Italy even if it is not close to Bergamo!&nbs𓆏⛎p;

"It will be interesting to see if in respect to the 🦹last two years we can improve and get some good points – and fight for the podium. 

"After Misano test we understood a lot and I hope to arrive ready to be fast immediately from Friday and try to be in the front group of every session, to beꦰ in a good position to fight during the races. 

"It’s a ✃flat track, no up and down elevation or anything crazy but the level of grip is very ಞhigh and we need to just find a good way to start on Friday to be able to push during the weekend. 

"Of course, we also hope for good weat🔯her because there has been a lot of devastating rain in the region recently.

"The goal will be to put on a good show – we have a lot of fans travelling for the event and it is always nice to enj𒊎oy this support at home."