Toprak Razgatlioglu puts BMW in WorldSBK title lead, ties Haga, targets 'dream' triple

Top🌜rak Razgatlioglu sets his sights on a clean sweep at Misa♛no after taking the title lead by winning Saturday’s Race 1.

Toprak Razgatlioglu, Misano 2024
Toprak Razgatlioglu, Misano 2024

Victory in race one at Misano on Saturday also made 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu the first BMW rider to lead the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike championship since Marco Melandri in 2012.

Razgatlioglu’s fourth win of the season was rarely in doubt, passing Remy Gardner for the lead on lap 4 and th🍃en riding to a 1.8s victory over the Ducati🌸 of Nicolo Bulega.

Third place for Bulega’s Ducati team-mate Alvaro Bautista cost the reigning c🉐hampion the title lead to Razgatl🍷ioglu by three points heading into Sunday’s races.

“Really strong race, for ꧃everyone, because of the hot condition. The bike was just spinning and especially I was feeling a lot of locking from the front tyre, because I use hard front tyre,” Razgatlioglu told the official Worl𓆏dSBK website.

“I'm just focused to ride a bike and try to do a good pace, but finally we win. I’m happy and now we are the championship leader,꧅ but I'm not focused this.

“I'm just fo💯cused tomorrow because I have two more races. I'll try my best again because this is my dream, my target; three race wins. We will see tomorrow.”

Quizzed on why, unlike hiꦏs rivals, he had chosen the hard SC2 front tyre, Razgatlioglu replied:

“In the hot conditions I like a harder tyre. But also this one after 10-12 laps I feel a lot of movement. But I ဣkept 🦋fighting because I really need to win.

“But tomorrow I neeꩲd to improve the bike because after 10 laps esp🌟ecially I need some more grip.”

But he will join his🐻 rivals on the SC1 for the shorter Superpole race.

“For 10 laps, I don't need to save the rear tyre and I'll use also the SC1 front tyre,” he said. “I think we wil🎃l be pushing more than today because 10 laps and also not really hot conditions at 11am.

“But we will see tomorrow. I'm just really focused on Race 2 because tomorrow looks even more hot than today. And I think we will feel the same situation, the heat and sliding, so looks like we need to improve bik🎃e.”

Razgatlioglu is now tied with Noriyu෴ki Haga on 43 wins, for joint fifth on the all-time WorldSBK winners💛’ list behind Jonathan Rea (119), Alvaro Bautista (61), Carl Fogerty (59) and Troy Bayliss (52).

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