Honda told to pursue “fresh” Toprak Razgatlioglu who is “without preconceptions”

“If I’m Honda, Toprak is on💫e of the names at the very🍒 top of the list"

Toprak Razgatlioglu, Jerez WorldSBK test, 25 January
Toprak Razgatlioglu, Jerez WorldSBK test, 25 January

Honda have been advised to bring 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu into their MotoGP project.

The topic of the World Superbikes BMW rider’s future was debated in-depth on the latest epiওsode of the Crash MotoꦗGP podcast.

൲Razgatlioglu’s manager Kenan Sofuoglu caused a stir by insisting they want a switch from WSBK to MotoGP in 2025.

“If I’m Honda, Toprak is one of t🍃he names at the very top of the list,” Peter McLare❀n said on the Crash MotoGP podcast.

“T☂he talent🃏 is there, the willingness to take on a difficult project.

“Potent🐈ially a two-time WSBK champion. He’d come into MotoGP fresh without preconceptions of ‘this is what their bike did, which your bike does not do…๊’

“He’s just going to get on the bike and say ‘this is what I want it to d🔴o’, then just ride the wheels off it. Like he does with the BMW.

“Honda have got 🦹great riౠders already, proven riders, race winners.

“It would do no harm at all, I think, to bring i🥀n somebody. It’s the best of both worlds - a rookie with massive experience of taking on a pro🍷ject.

“The BMW isn’t the easiest but he makes it work.

“Honda are in a rebuilding phase with Joan Mir.

“This 🦩is the first year without Marc Marquez, the start of a new era.

“They are not looking to make a bike that works around this fantast🌼ic one🔴-off talent.

“They are making a bike which works for several riders which is what people said Honda need to do for a long time.๊ Not just rely on Marc.

꧑“They are at the start of that process. It’s a whole different situation to previously, which was ‘make that guy happy, give the super-talented guy whatever he wants’.

“That’s gone out of the window now. They’ve got to take the more modern approach of Ducati, listening🎶 to every rider so it works for different styles.”

MotoGP 'opposite of Toprak's style'

Razgatlioglu has come cཧlose to MotoGP once ๊before without joy.

𝓀He tested Yamaha’s MotoGP bike 🃏but seemingly didn’t do enough to convince them to bring him over.

Since then, he has split with Yamaha’s WSBK project and linked up with BMW where, ꦦthis season, he is a threat for the championship.

“💝It would still be a big risk,” McLaren said⛎ about Razgatlioglu moving into MotoGP. “He tried the M1, it didn’t work for his riding style.

“We know how important ♛it is to use the rear tyre, the rear grip, for braking which is the opposꦦite to Toprak’s fantastic style.

“In many ways, it’d be like the adaptation of Marquez to🐽 the Ducati. He was💖 a ‘rear wheel in the air’ kind of guy!

“Now he’s trying to 𓄧work out how to use the extra grip.

“That’s the process Toprak would have ꦆto go through. I have no doubt he could d🍌o it.

“If his management are keen and he’s lookin꧂g at this, it’d be h🌠uge for MotoGP.”

His savvy manager made a similar move in his own racing꧙ career and will understand the pitfalls that await, if they get it wrong🎉.

“Keenan went to Moto2 as the Supersport champion,” M🧸cLaren recalled.

“He knows how diffi🀅cult the grand prix paddock can be if you’re not on the best machinery.

“He🌼 has made clear that Toprak needs a factory team. There aren’t thꦡat many. There is one at Yamaha.

“Having tested the bike and split with them al🐷read🅰y, it would be massive to go back.

“Honda? Everyone knows w🏅hat Hond♏a are capable of. It’s about the timeframe

“But 𒁃if they throw everything at it?ꦉ And they get Toprak?

“It would be a fantastic thing for Honda. And for Toprak, if he turns it around, whatꦆ a legend it would make him!

“Th𝓀ere is also a great case to make for Toprak staying in WSBK and becoming a Jonny🌊 Rea type legend, perhaps the best ever.”

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