Injured Toprak Razgatlioglu forced out of first 2025 WorldSBK test

Injury has p🍌revented Toprak Razgatlioglu from 🍬taking part in next week’s two-day WorldSBK test.

Toprak Razgatlioglu, Shaun Muir, 2024 Estoril WorldSBK, grid. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Toprak Razgatlioglu, Shaun Muir, 2024 Estoril WorldSBK, grid. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Toprak Razgatlioglu has been🔯 rꩵuled out of next week’s WorldSBK test at Jerez due to an injury.

reports that the reigning and two-time WorldSBK ꧃Champion picked up the injury in training, forcing the Turkish rider to sit out this week’s two-day test in southern Spain on 22-23 January.

Despite Razgatlioglu’s dominance in 2024, the preseason this year is an important one fo♈r BMW, which has an updated M1000 RR to dial in.

The responsibility for that in Jerez this week will fall, in Razgatlioglu’s absence, to his fact💜ory BMW teammate, Michael van der Mark, and the Bavarian marque’s official test test team riders: Sylvain Guintoli and Markus Reiterberger.

BMW will not be the𝐆 only manufacturer in Jerez next week, asও GPOne reports the Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto has, on this occasion, been rented by the Bimota by KRT squad for this Wednesday and Thursday.

As a result, of course Bimota’s off🍌icial riders, Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani, will be present, along with Kawasaki’s Garrett Gerloff.

Additionally, Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge will be there for Honda, as well as the Japanese marque’s test team, and the Petrona🎉s MIE squad, which announced its rider line-up last week as Tarran Mackenzie and Zaqhwan Zaidi.

Yamaha will be in attendance, too, with both its factory roster of Jonathan Rea and Andrea Locatel✃li, and the satellite GRT team’s riders: Dom♛inique Aegerter and Remy Gardner. Tito Rabat and Bahattin Sofuoglu will ride for the Motoxracing team, as well.

For Ducati, the factory riders, Nicolo Bulega and Alvaro Bautista, will 🐠be joined by the full roster of the Italian brand’s satellite riders: Yari Montella and Danilo Petrucci for Barni, Ryan Vickers for Motocorsa, Andrea Iannone for Go Eleven, Sam Lowes for Marc VDS, and Sc♊ott Redding for MGM Bonovo.

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