After finishing a distant second to Nicolo Bulega in Race 1 at this weekend’s Australian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike round, Toprak Razgatlioglu is hoping to find improvements in bike s💦etup to improve his potential for Sunday’s two races.

Razgatlioglu was able to match Bulega’s pace in the second stint of Saturday’s Race 1, but in the opening stint the Italian had been able to open up a lead💖 of around six seconds, while Razgatlioglu was sucked into a multi-rider battle for second.

“For the Superpole Race I need some setup because today everyone was pushing harder,” Razgatlioglu told WorldSBK.com a💯fter Race 1 in Phillip Island.

“I hope we find someth𓆉ing and arꦰe fighting again with someone.”

Could that someone be Bulega?

“[Nicolo] Bulega is very strong at this circuit, he rides alone,” ဣthe reigning champion✤ said.

“But, maybe at the beginning of the race, two or three laps maybe, I can try♛ to follow him, but after I’m sure he’ll ride alone.”

Although he was left trailing Bulega in Race 1🌼, Razgatlioglu was at least happy with the progress he had made compared to Friday, when he was complaining of a lack of gri📖p and turning in particular.

“I feel💝 very good because finally I start smiling and I didn’t expec🌳t this race, but we did a very good job,” Razgatlioglu said.

“Thanks to my team because we have improved the bike; especially in the beginning of the race I’m not really strong, but the second [stint] after we changed theဣ tyre I feel much better grip and a little bit better turning, maybe the fuel✨ is less.”

The pit stop marked a clear pivot point in the race, but Razgatlioglu’s own 20 laps in Race 1 were the perfect example of how a flag-to-flag race can result in races of two very different halv𝓀es for some.

By staying out one lap longer than 𓃲the likes of Alvaro Bautista, he was able to emerge after the pit cycle with a gap of almost one second back to the group he was battling with before the stops.

From there, Razgatlioglu was able to manage th💯e gap, although Bautista was within 0.3 seco𝔍nds of him by the chequered flag.

“The flag-to-flag I’m really enjoying,” Razgatlioglu ꩲsaid.

“This time we didn’t do a mistake because I got a penalꦫty. But this year I did a very good job, the team did a very good job.

“I didn’t f🤡ollow Alvaro [Bautista], this time I did one more lap because I felt that I was a little bit faster than Bautista, so I did one more lap an♚d I pushed more than 100 per cent.

“After [the pit stop] I’m immediately starting at 100 per cent to push the gas because the race is only nine laps [so] I don’t need to save the rear tyre – it’s noꦐt bad.”

Razgatlioglu started second after missing out on pole to Bulega by 0.094 seconds, but his initial plan of trying to follow the factory Duca🤡ti rider was disrupted by the pres🍨ence of a number of other Ducatis, which are no longer dealing with reduced maximum engine speeds to balance performance thanks to the introduction of the new maximum fuel flow regulations.

“I try to follow Bulega,” he 🍰said, “but when I star🎉ted the race all the Ducatis passed me on the straight.

“I don’t understaꦛnd [how] Ducati is still very strong on the straight, but the new rules don’t cut the RPM… [t💙he Ducati is] still fast on the straight.

“But, [...] when I changed the tyre I found the rhythm and I’m riding more r🐟elaxed on the bike.

“Every session we are im🌄proving th🗹e bike, very small steps. Tomorrow we have two more races, we will see.”