Toprak to miss the first test of the year due to injury. https://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/1061973/1/toprak-razgatlioglu-forced-out-first-2025-worldsbk-test Toprak Razgatlioglu has been ruled out of this week’s WorldSBK test at Jerez due to an injury. GPOne reports that the reigning and two-time WorldSBK Champion picked up the injury in training, forcing the Turkish rider to sit out this week’s two-day test in southern Spain on 15-16 January. Despite Razgatlioglu’s dominance in 2024, the preseason this year is an important one for BMW, which has an updated M1000 RR to dial in. The responsibility for that in Jerez this week will fall, in Razgatlioglu’s absence, to his factory BMW teammate, Michael van der Mark, and the Bavarian marque’s official test test team riders: Sylvain Guintoli and Markus Reiterberger. BMW will not be the only manufacturer in Jerez this week, as GPOne reports the Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto has, on this occasion, been rented by the Bimota by KRT squad for this Wednesday and Thursday. As a result, of course Bimota’s official riders, Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani, will be present, along with Kawasaki’s Garrett Gerloff. Additionally, Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge will be there for Honda, as well as the Japanese marque’s test team, and the Petronas MIE squad, which announced its rider line-up last week as Tarran Mackenzie and Zaqhwan Zaidi. Yamaha will be in attendance, too, with both its factory roster of Jonathan Rea and Andrea Locatelli, and the satellite GRT team’s riders: Dominique Aegerter and Remy Gardner. Tito Rabat and Bahattin Sofuoglu will ride for the Motoxracing team, as well. For Ducati, the factory riders, Nicolo Bulega and Alvaro Bautista, will be joined by the full roster of the Italian brand’s satellite riders: Yari Montella and Danilo Petrucci for Barni, Ryan Vickers for Motocorsa, Andrea Iannone for Go Eleven, Sam Lowes for Marc VDS, and Scott Redding for MGM Bonovo.
Was it training, or p*ssing around doing stunts on road bikes? Which is cool to watch but carries risks I’m not sure BMW would really like him taking. Either way good to see how everyone stacks up. I really hope Yamaha have found something for this year. My worry is that they are just going to get completely destroyed
https://www.crash.net/wsbk/live/worldsbk-2025-jerez-test-day-1-live-updates A 1:40:2 puts him just under three and a half seconds slower than the fastest Moto GP lap time from FP1 last year. Make of that what you will
Don’t read a thing into the times, they are 3 seconds off, completely meaningless other than the gap between the riders. Roughly speaking it seems the Yamaha hasn’t made a step, and arguably as much as I really like the guy, Guintoli being 4.5 seconds slower than the other BMW riders is meaningless for development of the bike, test riders need to be within a second of the the official riders to really be able to do meaningful development (not my words, taken from oxley and those more qualified to comment)
https://www.crash.net/wsbk/results/1062206/1/jerez-world-superbike-test-results-day-1 Sr45 must be quietly pleased after his first day back however meaningless times may be at this stage
Be good to see him back at the sharp end. Been following his Instagram and his training, i think he is looking at this year as make or break.
Hopefully his hard work is starting to pay off https://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/1061778/1/scott-redding-completes-first-ducati-laps-2021
yep, annoying though because they are limited on test days, they won’t go out as it starts their allowance! Seeing as they have all spent all the money getting there, the championship should just give them a pass to go out and ride and let them develop in the wet (more for wet weather use etc), it’s a bit of a farce really as they have hundreds of people and circuit staff all there just for no one to ride because of the test day restriction
More rain in Portimao for the WSB test argghhh Garrett Gerloff tops the opening day of the Portimao World Superbike test at midday, the American taking advantage of improving track conditions towards the end of the morning to take the top spot. The morning has seen very little running so far with Gerloff one of only three full-time WorldSBK riders to set a time to now as a result of wet track conditions. Full times as of 13:00 are below. 2025 WorldSBK Portimao Test Results | Tuesday | 13:00 Pos Rider Nat. WorldSBK Team Superbike Timing 1 Garrett Gerloff USA Kawasaki WorldSBK Team Kawasaki ZX-10RR 1:44.851 2 Markus Reiterberger GER ROKiT BMW Motorrad BMW M1000 RR 1:47.431 3 Sylvain Guintoli FRA ROKiT BMW Motorrad BMW M1000 RR 1:49.436 4 Xavi Fores ESP Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team Bimota KB998 1:56.814 5 Axel Bassani ITA Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team Bimota KB998 1:57.524 6 Tarran Mackenzie GBR Petronas MIE Racing Team Honda CBR1000RR-R 1:57.837
Some more recent updates on the official site; https://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2025/LIVE COVERAGE Portimao PreSeason Testing officially underway 14:40 - A brief red flag was issued but the green flag is back and racing continues 14:37 - Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) puts Yamaha up into the rostrum with a 1'43.656s time 14:34 - Alex Lowes makes it two Bimotas in the top three behind Toprak as he lays down a 1'43.515 time, .448s behind Toprak and .365s ahead of Axel Bassani 14:31 - Xavi Vierge keeping Honda's momentum from the end of the 2024 season and their speedy Day 1 in Jerez, jumping into P3 with a 1'44.252s time 14:29 - Iker Lecuona is back on the track after suffering a broken rib in the offseason! 14:25 - Xavi Vierge is out on the track for the first time today, he and Honda HRC will be looking to build confidence with their new Ohlins suspension 14:22 - Axel Bassani is back into the fight for fastest time, placing into p2, .813s behind Toprak with a 1'43.880 time 14:19 - Sam Lowes (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team) breaks into the top 10 in his sixth lap, setting a 1'45.965s 14:16 - Toprak Razgatlioglu doesn't seem to be hampered by his broken finger, in just his second lap of the day he lays down the fastest time of the day, 1'43.067s, almost a second and a half faster than Gerloff's previous leading time of 1'44.137s 14:13 - MGM BONOVO Raciing's Scott Redding, hot off of a good showing at Jerez's windy Day 1 test where he finished third, is out on the track and jumps into fourth in just his third lap 14:12- Toprak Razgatlioglu is confirmed to be on the track, currently running his first lap of the 2025 preseason 14:08 - the factory Ducati's are out to play! Alvaro Bautista sporting a new Ducati exhaust in just his third lap jumps up to third now behind the similarly ascendant Michael van der Mark, Bautista on a 1'45.452s and van der Mark with a 1'45.018s 14:05 - Garrett Gerloff sets the new fastest time on the day, 1'44.482s placing him in P1 atop Xavi Fores riding with Bimota and Michael van der Mark in third with a fastest time of 1'46.548 13:00 - With everyone in the box, we're going to take a short break. It's been a quiet morning at Portimao, with Bimota test rider Xavi Fores leading the times ahead of Axel Bassani on the KB998. Hopefully, it'll be a bit busier this afternoon... 12:45 - To clarify, we've heard from our team on the ground that while it was Razgatlioglu's bike out on track, it wasn't the Turkish rider. Test rider Markus Reiterberger took Razgatlioglu's M 1000 RR out for a spin 12:42 - Just an out lap for the reigning Champion, who's immediately returned to his box 12:36 - Toprak Razgatlioglu exits the pits and makes his way onto the track for the first time since his right index finger injury suffered three weeks ago. He is sporting custom gloves to protect his stil-recovering finger and this will be our first look at him on the new M 1000 RR as he looks to build confidence on the new package
Is it me or is the weather just getting worse and worse each year? Doesn’t help that the seasons are now so long that the pre-season tests are all in Jan! I think if they just had testing last week of Feb and mid march and then crack on they would all have much better luck!
SR45 P16 and a good 1.5ish off the top. BUT, as has been said, it’s testing so not too much to be read into it I guess.
12:00 And... it seems like it's raining again. Everyone apart from Fores, who just did a 2:03.307, is back in the pits.
I appreciate “it’s only a test” etc.. but some of us have been waiting two months for it. The official wsb site was piss poor on updates and general coverage. Am I missing something? it’s almost like the content writers on these sites (MotoGP.com/crash etc) do it for free it’s that half arsed.
Crash.net went through the whole of last year without publishing either the wsb or bsb calendars on their wsb and bsb pages. Gis a job!
They’re missing such a trick it’s embarrassing especially with the riches of cheap-ish technology available now. I’d have paid a couple £/euros on their www to watch drone coverage hovering over the track on my laptop while I’m working today and I’m sure I’m not alone. Absolute minimum effort and expense to organise too.
