linked with a move to MotoGP
several times over recent years,
but there has always been one
or another stumbling block.
Not least, he and his manager
Kenan Sofuoglu's insistence he
would only make the move into
a full factory team. A step too
far for potential employers, who
rightly or wrongly believed even
this major talent would need to
spend some time learning the
ropes.
The other stumbling block
grows bigger year by year. It is
simply the passage of time.
Toprak is clearly one of those
exceptional talents. His ex
-
T
he world's premier jockeys
have started their pre-
season gallops—MotoGP's
phoney war—in Malaysia. But
there was one very important
person missing.
Toprak Razgatlioglu. Again.
The preeminent World Su
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perbike rider's name has been
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CN IIIN THE PADDOCK
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
TOO-LATE
TOPRAK
AND A TALE OF
LOST
CHANCES
Has Toprak
Razgatlioglu's
MotoGP train
already left the
station?
