First clues over Toprak Razgatlioglu’s 2025 BMW as testing begins
An updated version of the BMW M1000 RR is in the works for 2025.
A new BMW M1000 RR is seemingly on the way for the 2025 WorldSBK season.
Toprak Razgatlioglu will test at Aragon on Tuesday, his first time testing next season's parts.
Bimota's Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani will also be in action.
Razgatlioglu and teammate Michael van der Mark did not test last week in Jerez. BMW's test riders did their duties instead.
ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK team principal Shaun Muir has detailed some of the updates that are coming to the bike.
New-spec engines were run in Jerez and Razgatlioglu will get his hands on it on Tuesday.
Muir said last week: “We have the new 2025 engine upgrade here and we basically wanted to put kilometres on those engines and do a full preparation for Aragon next week.
“At Aragon, we’ll have the newer items.
“Clearly our engineers haven’t been working in the test team, so they’ve got to find a way with that and the new settings and torque maps.
“It’s just a familiarisation, put some kilometres on the engine and take them to Aragon next week.”
Muir said about Razgatlioglu and Van Der Mark: “They’ll come back full of energy, hopefully.
“They’ve had a bit of time to recover from that fantastic weekend we’ve just had.
“The bikes are, by and large, complete after today with the engine upgrades in them.
“We’ve got some new material to test, new aerodynamics to try on the bike and it’ll be the engineers working with the application guys and starting to get that new engine really dialled in and all the characteristics that we need and what both Michael and Toprak are looking for with the engine brake feel. That’ll be the focus.”
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