Toprak Razgatlioglu’s preseason finger injury has the potential to have eᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚffects strౠetching into the WorldSBK season.

The Turkish rider injured his index finger while enduro riding earlier in January and was forced to miss last week’s opening Worl🔥dSBK test of the year.

He has gone to Portimao this week to take💮 part in the two-day test at the Algarve venue, but still with lingering effects of the injury.

Razgatlioglu revealed the use of two ꦕdifferent “special gloves” to prevent🌺 further damage. 

“One glove is for two fingers together for braking, one🎐 is like normal just one finger ಞis big," he said.

His plan for the remainder of t🍨he off-season after this week’s test (which concludes on 🐼29 January) is to return to Turkey and undergo physio work.

“The physio is Istanbul, I live i😼n Sakarya,” he said.

“It’s 130km every day I go to Istanbul! It’s for my finger and it’s a very importan🌃t finger, the braking finger.”

“It’s not bad, getting better every day but a little🌳 slowly,” Razgatliog💧lu told WorldSBK.com in Portimao.

“After th﷽e big injury, I had an operation only 20 ♓or 21 days ago, but it’s still new.”

Razgatlioglu added that his main focus is being close to full fitness at Phillꩲip Island for the opening round.

“The doctors say after three months, you’ll be feeling like nor♎mal, but my biggest target at Phillip Island is to move my feeling almost 90 per cent, because this is very important,” he said.

The Turkish rider emphasiseꦡd the importance of riding in the Algarve this week in 𝔉order to understand the new specification of BMW M1000 RR that has been introduced for 2025.

“I need🎃 to ride the bike because I need to tr🦂y the new bike and we need to improve,” he said.

“In general💮, I’m very happy to come back to the circuit again. I’m still not 100% but I hope I’m feeling good on the bike and riding like real Toprak.

“The most important thing is how I’m feeling on the brakes because I’m always hard braking. We’ll see how it’s feeling ♐with the broken finger.

“The team’s very happy when I come back, a❀nd I h🌊ope we start strongly.”

He added: “Before Phillip Island, this is thℱe last test. I need to ride the bike to understand the balance as it’s a new bike.

“Mickey’s [Michael van der Mark] also riding the n📖ew bike, but I need to ride, the team are also waiting for my com⛎ments.

“I hope I’m not feeling any pain on the bike. This is good as we’ll start the test on the bike, and this is important for𝓡 me to find some setup maybe or improve for Phillip𒁏 Island.

“I just need to understand the bꦰike because my finger still isn’t 100 per cent. I don’t need to crash; this is the important thing.”