Forward of his transfer to MotoGP in 2025, a “tough job” has been recognized for present WorldSBK Champion Toprak Razgatlioglu.
The Turkish rider has been within the WorldSBK paddock because the center of the 2010s when he stepped into the Superstock 600 class, earlier than ultimately shifting as much as the Superbike class in 2018.
He’s ridden for 3 manufacturers in WorldSBK – Kawasaki, Yamaha, and now BMW – however has restricted expertise of racing outdoors the manufacturing by-product paddock.
It means there might be issues to be taught for him subsequent 12 months, together with the bike, the Pramac Yamaha workforce, and among the tracks – such because the Purple Bull Ring, Sachsenring, and SIlverstone – that he has by no means raced at earlier than.
For TNT Sports activities WorldSBK commentator and former MotoGP and World Superbike rider James Toseland, studying the circuits that the grand prix riders have already got a whole lot of expertise on might be a selected problem for Toprak Razgatlioglu.
“10 circuits that Toprak [Razgatlioglu] goes to go to, which he’s by no means been to, that he’s by no means seen earlier than.
“These 45-minute apply periods go like that [quickly].
“To stand up to hurry with the likes of Marc Marquez, who has been on these tracks for the previous 15 years, and the remainder of the sphere together with MotoGP champions who’ve grown up on [those circuits], it’s a very tough job.”
Toseland added, although, that Razgatlioglu is now on the degree the place he must be in MotoGP, saying he has “outgrown” World Superbike.
“He deserves to go to MotoGP. He has outgrown this [WorldSBK] paddock.
“He has developed his expertise that he must be within the elite class on the elite bikes.
“He wants bikes which can be able to going round a monitor the quickest, quicker than manufacturing bikes.
“His expertise as a rider are above manufacturing bikes now. He must be examined on the quickest bikes on the earth, MotoGP bikes.”
