Toprak Razgatlioglu’s second WorldSBK title came in dominant fashion, despite the BMW he was riding having neve🦄r won a title before.

The Turkish rider won 18 races✃ in 2024, making him clearly a deserve🃏d champion.

“My feeling now, after the world title, I’m really happy,” Razgatlioglu꧒ told WorldSBK.com.

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

“My first world title was for my dad, but this one is for myself. The first one is always d🧔ifficult, the first one is very special, but I’m really happܫy.”

Razgatlio✃glu’s season was dominated by t🌳wo periods of time.

The first was a run of 13 successive victories, which Razgat🍌lioglu explained as a kin𓂃d 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 ha💃t-trick because every race weekend I’m more relaxed,” he said.

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

“The Magny-Cours crashꦏ, this is too har🐭d,” Razgatlioglu said.

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

“I take very short breaths, and I start to come back to breathing. When I goꩵ back to the hospital, I’m not good, because my lung is [punctured].

“After the crash, every day I’m thinking about my target, I’m just trying t🌼o c⛄ome 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 t♍he air inside my lung. Just a little 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 I 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 tr🐽ainings in Kenan’s [Sofuoglu] track, and my mental side is getting more strong. When I go to Estoril, I’m feeling like Toprak, real Toprak.”

Razgatlioglu won four races across the final two rounds in Estoril and Jerez, s🎃ealing the title in the Superpole Race at the final round.

Aftܫer clinching the title, Razgatlioglu was greeted by almost the entir🅰e WorldSBK field.

“When I stopped at the first corner, 🐓allﷺ riders, almost, 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 Sup🐻erbike 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 saꦺid, ‘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 working very hard.

“This was really good teamw🤡ork, not just my side, also everyone — like a family. I’m very happy for BMW, for the team, and for myself.”

As a result of the ꦆeffort he recognised in BMW, Razgatlioglu will run the #1 plate in 2025.

“I don’t like a lot the #1, I lovཧe the #54, but BMW deserves it,” he said. “For BMW, I will use the #1.”