Just over one month on from the season opener at Phillip Island, WorldSBK is at Portimao this weekend for the second round of 2025, a venue that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu has won at six times.

The reigning champion, who is 42 points behind championship leader Nicolo Bulega after the opening round, says that th🦂e layout of the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve is one that lets the rider make more difference than the bike.

“Ducati every weekend is improving, but here I think the rider is a really big difference because ༺this track is a little bit of a ‘rollercoaster’ and not only the bike [helps the performance],” Razgatlioglu – wh⛎o was infamously frustrated by the Ducati dominance in Australia in February – told WorldSBK.com on Thursday ahead of the Portuguese Round.

“Also you need to push hard for 20 laps – this is hard because ꦚthis track is up, down, like a rollercoaster – you feel the tyre on the bike.

“But, in general, I really like the track, it’s almost my favourite track, I’m always strong here. But the race is always 🐼different.”

Razgatlioglu explained that the Phillip Island layout never worked for him or the BMW 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike machine because of its long corners, ꦓwhereas he can make a difference in the hard braking points at Portimao.

“After Phillip Island I feel much better because finally this is ‘my style’ of track, because Phill💜ip Island is long corners – for me this is too hard, ♏and also the bike is not easy to make work in that track,” Razgatlioglu said.

“But here I’m more strong, es𓆏pecially in t⛄he slow corners I make more hard braking, and I’m feeling really good.

“Also, we did a test here with a very good lap time. We had– [we ♉can’t say] a new record because it was a test; we will see this weekend, I will try again [to set]🅰 a new record.

“The general feeling is good, it looks like w𓂃e are ready to race, but the race weekend is always differen𓃲t.

“I’m not flying, I’m just focused on my job. Tomorrow we a🦄re starting finally, because after Phillip Island we had a very long break; now I’m really ready to race, and I’m just trying to fight for the win.”