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Cycle News 2025 Issue 20 May 20

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on the gear change, and was ul- timately overtaken by the Ducati and the wildly happy Bulega. There was 0.027 of a sec- ond in it at the line, in a race Razgatlioglu had previously done enough to win on his own. Razgatlioglu pointed at his fuel tank with both hands and later said that his bike had a problem: it was missing, mis - firing and losing power at the worst possible moment. Both riders deserved to win, simple as that, but only one could, and that was the simply ec- static Bulega who took a 10-point swing over his Turkish rival. Petrucci was third, again, and Sam Lowes fourth, again. centimeter at a time, the result seemed inevitable. A Toprak triple was already being recorded in the books, despite Bulega's brilliance and sheer guts at riding through more pain than he was letting on. Nicolo simply never gave up, but it seems that something small yet significant in Toprak's bike, electronics, or control sys - tem eventually failed. Bulega was closing in during the final few corners, and as he exited the last corner onto the short final straight, Toprak's bike took a tight inside line. Bulega moved onward toward him on the outside line. The BMW ex - ecuted a mini wheelie, stuttered fuel-flow reductions under the new balancing rules for 2025, escaped the midpack madness at turn one and pulled away from the group once again. Their bikes are not unaffected by the reduc - tion in maximum fuel flow at any particular point during the races (the Ducati less so than the BMW, it seems), but they con- tinue to finish seconds ahead of all the other top Superbike riders on the planet due to their own abilities, not their bikes. Plainly and clearly, this is true. Both rode with full heart and exceptional skill in the Most finale, but when Razgatlioglu passed for the "final" time and gradually built a lead one tiny ROUND 5 / MAY 16-18, 2025 AUTODROM MOST / MOST, CZECH REPUBLIC ROAD RACE I FIM WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP P72 Most was a good one for Danilo Petrucci with a trio of third- place finishes.

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