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Pramac team manager Gino Borsoi is in awe of how “open” Toprak Razgatlioglu is to receiving feedback given the success that the Turkish rider had in World Superbikes.
Razgatlioglu finally made the move from the World Superbike Championship to MotoGP this year with Pramac on a two-year factory Yamaha contract. The move has not always seen the best of what the Alanya native has to show, as Borsoi admits he had to “learn from scratch”.
MotoGP bikes are very different to the Superbike machinery that Razgatlioglu won his three WSBK titles aboard, including taking back-to-back crowns for BMW in 2024 and 2025. Such has been the scale of the learning curve that Razgatlioglu often admits he loses motivation.
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Pramac have seen flashes of what Razgatlioglu can offer aboard the underpowered Yamaha YZR-M1 this year. The 29-year-old was the top Yamaha rider in the United States Grand Prix in P15 and the Czech Grand Prix in P14, and has often fought factory rider Fabio Quartararo.
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Team manager Borsoi firmly believes that “nobody” doubts Razgatlioglu’s talent and speed, too. Razgatlioglu’s attitude behind the scenes at Pramac even astounds Borsoi, as he is very receptive to feedback when the Turkish rider would be forgiven for thinking he knows best.
Borsoi told Motorsport.com: “I must say that I have a really capable, really strong and good group of people to show Toprak how to approach the new category.
“It’s a completely different category. You have to learn from scratch, that’s the reality. You really have to learn from scratch. Nobody doubts his talent and his speed. That’s clear.
“Toprak has enormous and incredible talent. But when you have to start from scratch, you have to learn from others. He’s a really open, really good guy. He’s easy to talk to, and it’s easy to tell him what he needs to change. And this is another positive aspect of Toprak.
“It’s not easy to find this kind of character and mentality, this openness, especially when you’ve won three world titles in the Superbike category. And you know you’re one of the best, or the best, sometimes you don’t want to listen.”
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One area where Razgatlioglu is determined to improve is his qualifying performances, as he thinks starting from further down the order makes it “almost impossible” to improve due to how much straight-line pace the new-for-2026 V4 Yamaha lacks compared to their rivals.
Ahead of this weekend’s German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring (which is another brand-new circuit for Razgatlioglu), the Pramac star has only featured in Q2 once through 10 rounds. He took part in the pole shootout in Brazil after registering a fast lap in the wet practice session.
Razgatlioglu’s average qualifying position after his first 10 rounds as a MotoGP rider is P18.9, including his personal best to date of P12 in Brazil and lows of P22 and last in Catalunya and the Netherlands. He also only qualified P21 in Thailand and Czechia, along with P20 in Italy.
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