Toprak Razgatlioglu “was even thinking about pitting” amid Dutch WorldSBK Race 2 struggles

Toprak Razgatlioglu says he “was even thinking about coming into the pit box” in WorldSB🌞K Race 2 at Assen.

Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2025 Dutch WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2025 Dutch WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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BMW WorldSBK rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu says he consi🍸dered retiri♋ng in Race 2 at Assen, such were his tyre wear woes.

The reigning 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Champion won🐻 the wet♓ Superpole Race in the morning, but struggled in the dry Race 2, just as in Race 1 when he finished fourth and 17 seconds off the win.

"The Superpole Race was in full wet conꦅditions and I felt great on the bike,” Razgatlioglu said.

“The grip wasn't bad. This was my first win in the ꦡwet conditions on a Supeღrbike so I’m really happy about that.”

The Turkish rider said he was thinking about the 21-lap Race 2 from Sunday morning. A different setup and harder ty🅘re𝓰 selection – front and rear – was used for Sunday’s long race compared to Saturday’s, but ultimately both changes made little positive difference to the result for Razgatlioglu.

🅷“🦩I was already thinking about Race 2, which looked dry, this morning,” he said.

“We tried a different setup but it still didn’t work. We used a different tyre compared to Race 1 because yesterday the rear tyre dropped for the last eig𒆙ht laps.

“Today we used the harder SC0 tyreﷺ but in the last laps I 𝐆had the same problem.

“At one point I was even thinking about coming into the pit box. But the♎n I focused on scoring points. To finish seventh or eighth doesn’t mean much for me but it’s a long championship. We need to improve the bike, and I hope we can come back stronger to fight for wins."

Razgatlioglu’s Sunday difficulties were cancelled out slightly by retirements in both races for points leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nicolo Bulega, who was leading before his bike sto🗹pped in Race 2 and was running second in 𓆉the Superpole Race before suffering a reported electrical problem.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Bulega’s double-retirement means that, despite his struggles this weekend, Razgatlioglu has emerged from the Dutch Round 21 points behind the Italian, eight points closer th🤡an he was at the beginning of the weekend.

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