Toprak Razgatlioglu’s French WorldSBK crash put him out of ac𒆙tion for the whole weekend with a collapsed lung, but his manager — five-times WorldSSP Champio♒n Kenan Sofuoglu — thinks that it’s possible there was a “need” for it to happen.

Following his crash on Friday afternoon, Razgatlioglu was taken to hospital for assesꦍsments and was diagnosed with a p♈neumothorax, or collapsed lung.

It kept him out of action in France, but Sofuoglu believes that there was some fortune involved in the incide🌜nt.

“Toprak [Razgatlioglu] is okay and I’m very happy he is here today,” Sofuoglu�💯� told WorldSBK.com on Saturday, after Razgatlioglu’s BMW teammate, Michael van der Mark, had won WorldSBK Race 1 in France.

“Also, everybody knows it was a very scary crash, but I be♒lieve it’s very lucky. You need, sometimes, difficult ꦅthings.

“We had a very nice👍 last 13 races, and we won everything. But, if everything is going too good, I’m personally a b♋it afraid.

“Hard things arrived, but, if you watch the crash, we feel we have to be thankful because this can be a very dan༒gerous situation. In that crash, Toprak is still healthy, has nothing broken, of course he has some pain but in the end he’s here and even the next day [after the crash] arrived back at the track.

“Only one thing, we couldn’t race this weekend.”

Sofu🌊oglu expects Razgatlioglu not on🍸ly to be back in action at the next race in Cremona, round nine of the season, in two weeks’ time, but also to be at full fitness.

“I believe [that Razgatlioglu will race at Cremona], personally, becau𓃲se I see last night Toprak in hospital, [th🐠en] this morning at the track.

“There was huge impr♚ovement, and I believe we still have almost two weeks until the [next] race, and in 🥂these two weeks Toprak will be at 100 per cent in the next round.”

Razgatlioglu took a 92-point championship lead over Nicolo Bulega to Magny-Cours, and Bulega crashing out of Race 1 meant that, despite his double race win on Sunday, the Italian still trails in the riders’ standings by 55 points a𓃲head of Cremona.

As a result, and because he expects Razgatlioglu to miss no further races as a result of this injury, Sofuoglu i𝓀s calm about his rider’s titleಌ chances.

“It’s not a problem: we have enough advantage in the championship, and also if you look at Saturday we don’t lose so much points,” Sofཧuoglu said. “I just believe the championship is a little bit delayed, nothing ▨changed.”