Behind the ROKiT BMW factory team in the World Superbike Championship is Shaun Muir Racing, which has already experienced being champions. Absent from titles since 2015, the team believes it could be this year, with Toprak Razgatlioglu, who returns to the top of the standings – echoing the optimism of their new rider.
Team principal Shaun Muir revealed to the championship’s official website the mindset at ROKiT BMW, which is one of optimism, confidence, and conviction in the work done:
– I feel, overall, in this championship, getting the combination and what I feel now is like the start of 2011 and 2015 when we were in our championship winning years, I have a similar feeling to this year now as well. Everything clicks. You know when things are right. You don’t have dramas, there is an ambience in the team and there’s a spirit and the knowhow behind from the factory to think we’re on the right path.
The British team principal emphasized that he shares Razgatlioglu’s confidence: ‘I do believe moving on with Toprak, we have two years of him, we’re only two rounds in and here we are talking about the World Championship. But Toprak is talking about it. If anyone knows he can win the World Championship, it’s the man sitting on the bike. When he believes he can, we believe he can as well’.