First clues over Toprak Razgatlioglu’s 2025 BMW as testing begins

An updateꦆd versi𓂃on of the BMW M1000 RR is in the works for 2025.

Shaun Muir speaks to Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2024 Estoril WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Shaun Muir speaks to Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2024 Estoril WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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A new BMW🥀 M1000 RR is see🗹mingly on the way for the 2025 WorldSBK season.

Toprak Razgatlioglu will test at Aragon 🏅on Tuesday, his first time tes🍸ting next season's parts.

Bimota's Alex L𝄹owes and Axel Bas♔sani will also be in action.

Razgatlioglu🐼 and teammate Michael van der Mark did not test last week in Jerez. BMW's test riders did their duties instead.

ROKiT BMW Motorr✤ad WorldSBK team principal Shaun Muir has detailed some of the updates that are coming to the bikeꦇ.

New-spec 𝓡engines we🅠re run in Jerez and Razgatlioglu will get his hands on it on Tuesday.

Muir said last week: “We have the new 2025 engine upgrade here and we basically wanted to put kilometres on those engines and do a full preparation for Aꦓragon next week.

“At Aragon, we’ll have the newer items.

“Clearly ꦰour engineers haven’t been working in the test t🐼eam, so they’ve got to find a way with that and the new settings and torque maps.

“It’s jus🔜t a familiarisation, put some kilometres on the engine and take them to Aragon next week.”

Muir said ab𝔉out Razgatlioglu and Van Der Mark: “They’ll co🅠me back full of energy, hopefully.

“They’ve had a bit of time to recover from🔴 that fantastic weekend we’ve just had.

“The bikes aꦓre, by and large, coꦉmplete after today with the engine upgrades in them.

“We’ve got some new material to test, new aerodynamics to try on the bike and it’ll be the engineers working with the appl🥀ication guys and starting t🎶o get that new engine really dialled in and all the characteristics that we need and what both Michael and Toprak are looking for with the engine brake feel. That’ll be the focus.”

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