2024 World Superbike championship chief Toprak Razgatlioglu needs ‘to go away the Superbike World Championship on the finish of this 12 months and transfer to MotoGP’.
That’s in keeping with Speedweek.com, which quotes Razgatlioglu’s supervisor Kenan Sofuoglu as saying:
“There may be plenty of curiosity in Toprak within the MotoGP paddock, already for subsequent 12 months.
“We have now a two-year contract with BMW, however I’ve already knowledgeable BMW that we need to depart the Superbike World Championship on the finish of this 12 months and transfer to MotoGP.
“I defined to them that that is Toprak’s want.”
Sofuoglu has beforehand made clear Razgatlioglu would solely transfer to MotoGP as a manufacturing facility workforce rider.
Ought to that also be the case, his 2025 choices would theoretically be Repsol Honda – as debated on the most recent Crash.internet MotoGP podcast – Monster Yamaha or Aprilia, with the official Ducati and KTM groups already full.
Current experiences counsel Joan Mir is near renewing with Repsol Honda, nevertheless, GPone.com believes Razgatlioglu is certainly being pursued by Repsol Honda.
A Yamaha transfer would arguably be a fair greater shock, since Razgatlioglu wasn’t snug on an M1 throughout a pair of personal exams early final 12 months, then cut up from Yamaha to hitch BMW.
Aprilia in the meantime is tipped to signal Marco Bezzecchi, but when Pramac strikes to Yamaha, Bezzecchi would possibly be capable to obtain his manufacturing facility GP25 aim whereas remaining at VR46…
Including to the conundrum is that BMW is now additionally considered severely contemplating a MotoGP transfer, however not till the technical guidelines change in 2027.