Toprak Razgatlioglu on pit stop confusion: ‘I did not gain an advantage’
A first podium with BMW went begging for Toprak Razgatlioglu in Race 1 of the WorldSBK championship, despit💎e a great pit stop.
As was the case with six-time WorldSBK champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea, issues in the pits can cost a rider dearly if they are not a smooth process, as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu found out.
But that’s exactly what Razgatlioglu and BMW managed to avoid as they produced one of t🐽he best pit stops of the day.
Yet, Razga♉tlioglu gained no positions and instead received a penalty for leaving too quickly.
Howe🍒ver, Razgatlioglu said his dashboard was at the right time limit for him to ex💃it, which is why he held back initially.
But Razgatlioglu was given a 1.2 second time penalty for appearing to make up a very s𝔍mall amount of ground on the riders ahead.
Speaking about his first race with BMW, Razgatlioglu said: “We started the race not so bad. I stayed at the front and🐽 the feeling was good.
“We did 1m 30s and then 29s,🐲 but we are just riding in the 1m 29s-high. In the last few laps I was still riding my bike, keeping the rear tyre because 🌠this track is very hard on the rear tyre.
“I usᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe a lot the rear tyre with my bike and we made ten laps but the last two I was feeling vibration. We finished the race in fifth position, normally it would have been fourth, but I received a penalty.
“It was strange. I saw my board and it said zero so I exited pit lane. Alex passed me to exit the pit lane and I did not gain an advantage𓆏.
“I started fifth and finished fifth✅ but I hope we improve tomorrow.”
On the subject of his pit stop, Razgatlioglu was left confused as t🉐o why he receive🃏d a penalty and blamed a potential gps issue.
“We had the perfect pit stop but it was the exit,” added Razgatlioglu when speaking to WorldSBK.com. “It looks like my team s♔aid I exited a bit early but I saw my dashboard and it said 🍨zero. I don’t know.
“Maybe there was some gps problem or maybe I exited e🅷arly. 🐻Anyway, this is good for me to do my first race with BMW.
“I’m not happy with fi🔜fth or fourth position, my target was the podium, but I understand that this is not an easy race.
“Ten laps༺ on these tyres and they were destroyed. Maybe it’s especially my bike because I use the rear tyre a lot but other bikꦜes looked easier [to ride].
“We have some data which is go👍od and hopefully we can improve tomorrow.”
