Toprak Razga൲tlioglu enters the 2025 WorldSBK season as the benchmark rider𒉰 — the benchmark for the whole grid, including himself.

The Turkish rider’ꦆs 2024 title was clinched with dominance, winn🐟ing 18 races from the 30 he started in his first year with BMW, including a winning run in the middle of the season of 13 consecutive races.

“What’s next for me? I did 13 wins in a row; I need to break the♚ record again next year,” Razgatlioglu told WorldSBK.com at the EICMA show in Milan.

“This i🐷s a good target, it’s a very strong target, but I will try my best a♓gain.”

Razgatlioglu will have a new BMW M1000 RR with which to defend his WorldSBK title, but he hasn’t yet ridden the race-spec 𝄹version of the🌊 new machine.

“The first [change] is we are using the number 1 — this is nice, again,” Razgatlioglu said of the new♑ bike.

“I’ve not t꧃ested because in Aragon the weather is a little bit difficult🅷 and we cancelled the test,” he continued.

“But the standard bike is amazing, but we dꦇon’t know the race bike.

“We have a test, but I don’t know🐷 when, but it looks like the bike is beautiful. But I need to ride the bike to understand it.”

Sylvain Guintoli has tested the new bike in Aragon, but thi꧅s was of little use to Razgatlioglu because “he’s [Guintoli] only ridden in wet conditions, so he’s not understood anything, but we will see the next test.”

Razgatliog♛lu missed the pos🅷t-race test in Jerez after the final round there last month because he went home to Turkiye to celebrate his world title success.

“In Turkiye, many people came♔ to celebrate in the airport and we did the incredible celebrations with many bikes,” he reflected.

“Now I’m getting famous, I understand this, because many people know me; when I go to Istanbul and in the traffic everyone [sounds] their horn — I understand this is very nic🦩e.

“I’m vꦰery happy because everyone supports me, it’s nice.”