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Video: Titanic! Toprak Razgatlioglu climbs eleven positions in a lap to win at Donington and compress the world championship
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:35
Toprak Razgatlioglu is serious about the world Superbike title. The Yamaha rider had a very difficult time at the weekend qualifying in thirteenth position in the rain, but he did a first anthological lap in which he finished second and then beat Jonathan Rea in close combat.
In fact, Rea went off track while chasing Razgatlioglu, but once again he shortened a corner and didn't waste too much time. Fifteen points separate Yamaha's from Rea in the general classification, and the Turk will also have to risk tomorrow. But, for the moment, he slaps the table.
Redding crashed in the first laps and says goodbye to the World Cup
The classification was already a very important factor, because the rain completely altered it. The great beneficiary was Jonathan Rea, who returned to achieve pole, while Toprak Razgatlioglu was relegated to thirteenth place. The race was going to start on dry tires, but anything was possible in the hell of Donington Park.
The output of Razgatlioglu was outrageous. So much so that he advanced eleven positions in one lap up to second, immediately behind Rea. The Turk was ready to fight for the title, something that Scott Redding was not going to do, who fell again in the second lap of the race. Goodbye to almost all of your options.
Razgatlioglu was highly motivated, so much so that he passed Rea before finishing the second lap. The Kawasaki champion did not want Razgatlioglu to escape, he pushed too hard and went off track, although once again shortened a curve and thus avoided losing too many positions. He was still second, but already a long way from the Yamaha.
The BMW M 1000 RR was on its way to the podium. Michael van der Mark was quite prominent third, and also the fourth place was Tom Sykes. Ahead the race was not sentenced, because Razgatlioglu had a softer tire to support him on the comebackBut it could take its toll if the temperature rose. Andrea Locatelli accident, without physical consequences.
The race was very interesting, because although Rea seemed to be going a little faster, she was also getting several scares. I was going to the limit, near the fall. The fight for the podium was compressed, with Alex Lowes threatening that coveted box of BMWs. Also Leon Haslam and Garrett Gerloff came strong from behind.
Sykes passed a van der Mark beginning to sag, also outbid by Lowes and Gerloff. The Kawasaki one passed Sykes with a very aggressive maneuver in which Gerloff slipped them both of them, ready for another podium to secure his candidacy to be a MotoGP rider next season.
But then came the error of Gerloff, who went to the ground when he already had some income on Lowes. The Kawasaki man looked like he was going to get the podium. Although watch out for his comeback, because he reached seventh position. BMW is once again at the gates of the podium with Sykes' fourth place.
Victory for Toprak Razgatlioglu and a blow to the table That puts a lot of spice in the battle for the title with Jonathan Rea, who has been second. Two Kawasakis on the podium thanks to third place from Alex Lowes. Álvaro Bautista was the best Spaniard, eighth, while Isaac Viñales, fifteenth, also scored.
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