Toprak Razgatlioglu to miss first WSBK 2025 tests due to injury

A few months ago, Toprak Razgatlioğlu won glory at the Jerez circuit – Ángel Nieto, winning his second world title on the Spanish track. Superbikesoverwhelmingly, in his first year at BMW and during a campaign that was marred only by injuries. The same reason that will prevent the Turk from starting the 2025 pre-season on the right foot.

And the young 28-year-old pilot For physical reasons, he will not be able to attend the first collective tests of the next campaign, which will take place on the Spanish track on Wednesday January 22 and Thursday January 23. after the circuit was praised by Bimota for this.

Razgatlioglu suffered a fall during training while practicing enduro. During the incident, he suffered a minor injury to his right index finger.. Our colleagues from 'GPOne', sister site of Motorsport.comthey argued that even He had to undergo surgery to repair the damage. Even though it's nothing serious, the current champion and BMW have agreed on do not travel to Sherry facing the tests in a few days.

Recently, the list of drivers for these two days of training was published, in which the absence of #54 was confirmed. The Bavarian brand will be present with Michael Van der Mark as a representative of the factory team, and with Markus Reiterberger And Sylvain Guintoli as members of the test team.

Beyond that, there will of course be the main representatives of the championship grid of motorcycles derived from those of production, such as Alvaro Bautista, Nicolô Bulega, Jonathan Réa, Andrea Locatelli, Alex Lowes, Axel Bassani, Xavi Virgo either Iker Lecuonaamong others.

As for Razgatlioglu, BMW's predictions are as follows: could reappear on the circuits at the end of the month, before the Portimao test which will take place on January 28 and 29in preparation for the start of the next campaign (at Phillip Island, weekend of February 22 and 23).

However, We should know more about Kenan Sofuoglu's protégé this Wednesday, January 15, a day during which BMW will present the team and the M1000RR for 2025.with which they hope to achieve as good results as in 2024, and that injuries do not affect Toprak as much, as happened after the hard fall in Magny-Cours.