Toprak Razgatlioglu is the reigning WSBK World Champion and in case we forget him during the year, he put a number 1 on his Yamaha which he stole from Jonathan Rea's Kawasaki who won it planted for six consecutive vintages. The Turk is a special case, and quite a personality on the track. But once he gets off his machine, he is quite down to earth, even with the greats of this world...
Toprak Razgatlioglu is a simple man in life, as much as he is invasive and explosive on the track. In fact, when he recounts his obligations again World champion during the offseason, the way he says he experienced these moments of new notoriety is quite juicy. On speedweek, he says thus: “ now I have an Audi R8, before that I had a Lamborghini Huracan. I always spend all my money the same way. It's always been like this: if I won a race, I buy something ».
Toprak Razgatlioglu: “ Erdogan first spoke to Russia and the Ukrainians about the big problems, then he came to us«
He pursues : " I've been on some TV shows, which I generally don't like. It's not my style with all the cameras and all the talking. I work on the race track, but I want to relax away from it ».
And then there is this geopolitical revelation, which occurred during the meeting with Turkish President Erdogan… “ We went to Kenan Sofuoglu's kart track together " said Toprak. “ Our president was meeting with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine and talked about the war, so we had to wait for him for three hours. It was a beautiful day, Kenan had his son with him. It was the first time I met our president, he even went karting. It was strange, first he talked to Russia and the Ukrainians about the big problems, then he came to us ". To certainly talk about something else.
