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Cycle News 2024 Issue 29 July 23

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BY GORDON RITCHIE PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE T he brilliance of Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) was on display again as he com - pleted his third hat trick in a row in the FIM WorldSBK Champion- ship. For the third round in a row, the BMW Turkish-born rider won all three races over the weekend, this time at the Autodrom Most facility in the Czech Republic. He's also won 10 races in a row and notched his 130th podium in WorldSBK, which equals Troy Corser at the all-time spot. Despite the many doubters, who all have perfectly logical explanations as to why he would take some time to turn the BMW around—if he could at all— Razgatlioglu's smashing of the previous track-best record with a 1'30.061 in Superpole qualifying underlines his higher plane of WorldSBK existence. He was fully six-tenths of a second faster than the next best rider, Andrea Iannone (Team GoEleven Ducati), but he was still not satisfied, as he wanted ROUND 6 / JULY 19-21, 2024 AUTODROM MOST / CZECH REPUBLIC ROAD RACE I FIM MOTUL WORLDSBK CHAMPIONSHIP P68 TOPRAK RAZGATLIOGLU SWEEPS AGAIN IN CZECH REPUBLIC X3 X TOPRAK

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