The Circuito de Jerez – Angel Nieto is hosting a couple of days of WSBK tests, in what is the first possibility of seing the riders «battling» each other on track. And, at Spain, one of the riders to gather more attention was Toprak Razgatlioglu among his new BMW, with the turkish to leave right away a very good impression.
Razgatlioglu finished the day with the third time among WSBK riders after completing 74 laps, with one of his last to be the best, setting a time of 1:39.521s, which meant, at the end of the day, a difference of 1.229s to the fastest of the day, Nicolò Bulega.
His performance left him happy, with the #54 saying: ‘I’m very happy to have good weather, finally! In my first tests, it was a little bit late, and we didn’t have a fully dry session. Now we have a fully dry track and, we showed our potential. This wednesday morning, in the first five laps, I did a 1:39.8s with the SC0 tyre. This is very good. I immediately saw 1:39s and thought it was good because people said BMW’s not ready to be a Championship bike, but if the bike didn’t have potential, we wouldn’t have done a 1:39s’.
Still at a very early stage of his adaptation to a new reality, Razgatlioglu was naturally happy: ‘It looks like the bike has potential. We need time and to improve the bike because I’m still learning it. I’m riding the bike for a full day; I’m learning a lot and so are the team. My style is probably a bit different, so my team are learning my style. In general, I’m happy. It’s been a positive test. Bulega did a good lap time with the SCQ tyre, but I don’t understand why the other riders didn’t do this. Maybe it’s the same problem with grip’.