"Friday was a really difficult
day," said Gerloff on Sunday.
"This morning, with the cooler
track temperature and with a
bit more grip, I felt not too bad.
But this afternoon, when the
track temperatures rose, I just
had zero grip. I would imagine
that might be the same for
everybody else, but I had noth
-
ing more to give. I was fully on
the limit, losing
the front every-
where. On Saturday, we had a
tough
day. I said to the guys in
the team, 'Hey, it's our last day
tomorrow, last two races of the
year, so let's just change some
-
thing big and see if it works.'
Tomorrow
could be worse or
better. It has been a long year,
and we have definitely had some
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In race two, Bulega again shot
into the lead as soon as possible,
and the race result was a fore-
gone conclusion from then on.
Razgatlioglu,
with the weight
of the entire world on his shoul-
ders after the Superpole-race-
shock clattering, was unrecog-
nizably conservative, down in
eighth on lap one.
He
moved up gradually to
third by lap nine of 20, beating
Bulega in the final points stand
-
ings by 13 points.
As
the Toprak era comes to
an end, the Bulega era surely
begins in 2026.
As for the Americans, Garrett
Gerloff (14-17-DNF) and Bobby
Fong (21-19-19), it was a dif
-
ficult weekend.
celebratory
red-and-white Ya-
maha 70th anniversary livery.
Two
corners later, in a move
that was later judged irresponsi-
ble riding on the part of Bulega,
the red rider
went for an inside
line at turn five and took out
Razgatlioglu.
The BMW rider being the one
in front of him in the fight for the
championship win, brought—
conservatively-speaking—a
great degree of attention onto
Bulega, most notably from the
hissing and booing and—very
numerous—Toprak fans.
Bulega was the Superpole
race winner by four seconds
from Bautista and 5.2 from
Iannone. Vierge was fourth and
Alex Lowes fifth on the bimota.
