Topꦕrak Razgatlioglu’s second WorldSBK title came in dominant fashion, despite the BMW he was riding having never won a title before.

The Turkish rider won 18 races in 2024, mak🔴🎐ing him clearly a deserved champion.

“My feꦯeling now, after the world title, I’m really happy,” Razgatlioglu told WorldSBK.com.

“We deserve it, we are the World Champions now; ✅especially 𓂃with BMW, for me, is an amazing season.”

“My first world title was for my dad, but this one i🍷s for myself. The first one is🥀 always difficult, the first one is very special, but I’m really happy.”

Razgatlཧioglu’s season was dominat🐓ed by two periods of time.

The first was a run of 13𒈔 successive victories, which Razgatlioglu explained as a kind of exponential perpetuation.

“When I did 🥀the ‘hat-trick’ in Misano [...], the mental side is perfect, happy, but when I start the hat-trick, I do again the hat-trick because every race weekend I’m more relaxed,” he said.

The second period and the second was the time that passed after his practice crash in Magny-Cours which leftꦏ him out of action for six races.

“The Magny-Cours craꩵsh, this is too hard,” Razgatlioglu said.

“When I come to 🍌the last sector, I lose the front, I hit the wall, and when I’m stopped I understand I’m not taking breaths. I’m turning immediately and trying to start breathing again.

“I take very short breaths, 💜and I st🌞art to come back to breathing. When I go back to the hospital, I’m not good, because my lung is [punctured].

“After the crash, ♎every day I’m thinking about my ta༒rget, I’m just trying to come back quickly and be fighting for the title again.

“I tried to come back in Cremona — we checked the scan again, and I have still the air inside my lung. Just a l🦩ittle bit, but the doctors and Monica [Lazzarotti, WorldSBK chief medical officer] say this [racing🎃 in Cremona] is very dangerous.

“If I don’t come back to the Aragon race, I think I lose the championship. When Iౠ go to the doctors to check in Aragon, the doctor says ‘Fine’, and I almost cried there.

“After Aragon, when I go back to Turkiye, finally, I eat very special food with my mum, and I did many trainings in Kenan’s [Sofuoglu] track, and my mental side is getting more strong. When I go to Estoril, I’m feeling like To🐼prak, real Toprak.”

Razgatlioglu won four races across the final two rounds in Estoril andꦗ Jerez, sealing the title in the Superpole Race at the final round.

After clinching the title, Razgatlioglu was greeted by ꧒almost the entire WorldSBK field.

“When I stopped at the first corner, all riders, almos🎃t, stopped for me; also Alvaro [Bautista] stopped after [his] crash,” Razgatlioglu said.

“I’m happy because this is like a ‘family’ moment, and I’m really happy riding with everyone🌃 in the Superbike paddock.”

Razgatlioglu added: “Nobody believed in BMW, nobody🧸 believed in me when I signed. Everyone said ‘This is not a good decision, why sign with BMW, you are crazy’.

“My brother also didn’t believe; he was scared. He said, ‘Why have you signed with BMW? Nobody has won with ✃this bike’. I said ‘Be calm, we have some plans’. Now, he’s very happy.

“When I come to BMW, and I’m feeling very warm, everyone very hungry for the title, everyone ꦦworking very hard.

“This was really good teamwork, not just my side, also everyone — like a family. I’m very happy for BMW, for t🐽he team, and for myself.”

As a result of the effort he recognised in BMW, Razgatlioglu will run the #1 pla꧃te in 2025.

“I don’t like a lot the #1, I love the 𒐪#54, b🐎ut BMW deserves it,” he said. “For BMW, I will use the #1.”