BMW haven’t but confirmed whether or not Toprak Razgatlioglu will race on the Aragon World Superbike Championship spherical this weekend.
The WSBK championship chief missed final week’s Cremona spherical because of accidents suffered in a crash at Magny-Cours.
BMW had been fastidiously optimistic that Razgatlioglu would return in Aragon however – not like Yamaha who’ve clarified Jonathan Rea’s comeback from harm this weekend – there’s nonetheless no phrase from their camp.
Razgatlioglu has a 13-point lead on the high of the championship, forward of Nicolo Bulega, however that benefit will probably be at-risk if he’s unable to race at Aragon.
Razgatlioglu avoids engine penalty
If Razgatlioglu does return at Aragon this weekend, he’ll now not should be involved about an engine penalty which was looming over him.
BMW took care of that drawback in his absence final weekend at Cremona.
Each WSBK rider had an allocation of six engines for all the season however Razgatlioglu had used 5 by Magny-Cours.
The punishment for exceeding the quota of six engines is a back-of-the-grid begin plus a double lengthy lap penalty in each primary races in a spherical.
However BMW opted to offer a brand new engine to Razgatlioglu’s alternative in Cremona, Markus Reiterberger, which was a seventh of the season.
Reiterberger, in consequence, took the punishment final weekend.
Every time Razgatlioglu returns, he’ll revenue from the contemporary engine mileage.
Will Razgatlioglu be again at Aragon?
It looks as if a call will probably be made on Thursday.
Sven Blusch, Head of BMW Motorrad Motorsport, defined final week that the difficulty with Razgatlioglu’s comeback is a health care provider’s sign-off.
“So long as the pneumothorax is there, Toprak continues to be not allowed to race,” Blusch mentioned in Cremona.
“Clearly, I believe everyone knows that riders, if they’ve ache, they undergo it and so they don’t have any issues to push.
“On that time, I’d say it’s actually difficult as a result of he doesn’t have a number of ache. In his thoughts, he’s able to race.
“All of the medical doctors agreed on that time that it’s too harmful to trip. That is the most important drawback in the intervening time on our aspect.
“We’re actually hoping for Aragon.”
