Superbike, fear for Toprak Razgatlioglu

Superbike, results

Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) finishes in the lead on Friday of the French Motul Round of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours thanks to a 1’36.010 while his boxmate Toprak Razgatlioglu crashes in FP2 but still has the third fastest time at the end of the day.

Unlike what happened in FP1, in FP2 Razgatlioglu è one of the last to take the track and then after just one lap returns to the pits. He re-enters the track and while flying towards the best time he crashes in turn 14-15: for this reason the red flag is shown. The Turk is taken to the medical center for a back contusion and then transported to the hospital for further investigations; he will be reevaluated Saturday morning.

Also doing well was Garrett Gerloff (Bonovo Action BMW), fourth at the end of the day 380 thousandths behind the leader. Positive day also for Scott Redding, 11° in 1’36.984.

Bulega finishes this Friday in second place, off by 149 thousandths from the Dutchman. Sixth time for the Ducati of Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) who puts himself behind Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati), who crashed in turn 8 in FP2. At the end of this Friday ì è seventh at 758 thousandths from the leader.

11° crono for Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Team Motocorsa Racing) despite a technical problem in FP2 that però did not prevent him from returning to action in the second part of the session. Half a tenth margin for him on Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) who returns from’injury while Andrea Iannone (Team GoEleven), at his first time on this circuit, è 16°.

Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) riding his Kawasaki ZX-10RR è fifth in 1’36.592 while Axel Bassani è ninth in the combined. 20th ° place for the last Ducati, that of Tito Rabat (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing).

Jonathan Rea (Pata Prometeon Yamaha) experienced a complicated morning due to a technical problem: eighth place for him at the end of the day in 1’36.778, tenth place for Andrea Locatelli. Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) in 1’36.994 è 12°, his boxmate Alessandro Delbianco – who in this Round replaces the injured Dominique Aegerter – è 21°. Philipp Oettl (GMT94 Yamaha) occupies 18th position ahead of Bradley Ray (Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team).

Iker Lecuona (Team HRC) in 1’37.801 è 15th°, as usual followed by boxmate Xavi Vierge. Tarran Mackenzie (PETRONAS MIE Racing Honda) returns to action after injury and è 22° ahead of teammate Ivo Lopes (PETRONAS MIE Racing Honda) who takes the place of Adam Norrodin this weekend.

These are the top six at the end of Friday in WorldSBK, for the full standings click here:

1. Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) 1’36.010

2. Nicolò Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +0.149

3. Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) +0.337

4. Garrett Gerloff (Bonovo Action BMW) +0.380

5. Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) +0.582

6. Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) +0.599