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The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship is roaring back into action at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, a track steeped in history. The French Round has often been a title decider in years gone by and, while that won’t be the case this year, it will be a crucial round for the Championship fight. Check out some of the key numbers ahead of the visit to Magny-Cours below.

500 – Italy is on the verge of the milestone of 500 WorldSBK podiums, standing now at 499. Only the UK is ahead, at 892.

72 – Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) scored his 72nd win at Balaton Park (on the 24th of August, Marc Marquez achieved the same score in the same track in MotoGP) and with one more he will be 10 clear of Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati), 3rd in the all-time rankings. Jonathan Rea (Pata Maxus Yamaha) is unreachable: 119 wins.

55 – 55 podium places for Ducati at this track, the record value for Magny-Cours. Kawasaki follows at 35 and Yamaha at 32.

33/54 –Razgatlioglu, formerly racing with #54, has scored 33 wins out of 54 starts with BMW, increasing his already stunning winning percentage, now at 61.1%. He has no rivals among the riders with at least 50 starts for a manufacturer; the best rival is Doug Polen, with 26 wins out of 54 starts (48.1%) for Ducati. His podium rate (47 out of 54) is also a record one, with a percentage of 87%.

27/60 – In his first 60 WorldSBK races, Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati) has recorded 27 second places. That is one more than his team-mate Bautista, who recorded 26, but out of 228 races. His 12 second places this year, and the 15 last year, however, are still distant from the season record of Razgatlioglu, that in 2023 was 20 times second, 18 behind Alvaro Bautista.

23 – The 23rd of February is the only race day of this season without Razgatlioglu scoring points. Since then, when the Championship headed to Europe, he scored 387 points to Bulega’s 319.

22-41 – Magny-Cours so far has seen no fewer than 22 winners and 41 podium finishers out of 52 races. Last year there were 2 new winners: Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) in Race 1 and Bulega with a Sunday double.

15/20 –Razgatlioglu is running his second-best podium streak: 15 races (since Cremona, only winner or second). He is 5 shy of his best streak, scored from Mandalika Race 1 to Most’s Tissot Superpole Race in 2023.

15/18 – Toprak Razgatlioglu is just three wins short of his season record, 18, recorded last year. The absolute season record is 27, posted by Bautista in 2023.

13-12 – The best grid spot for winning? Seems to be 2nd, as from here the race was won 13 times, one more than from the pole spot.

11 – Kawasaki holds the pole record with 11, the last one last year with Alex Lowes. That is nearly four times the value of its nearest competitors, Yamaha and Honda at 3.

9 –Rea is the most successful rider here with 9 wins, followed by Razgatlioglu at 8 and Noriyuki Haga at 5. A double or treble for Razgatlioglu would make him the most successful rider at Magny-Cours with 10 or 11 wins – and it would also be the third circuit he’s record 10 or more victories at, after Donington and Most. He’d become the first rider to have 10 or more wins at three different venues. Rea has recorded this at two circuits (Assen, Portimao), so he could also achieve this at Magny-Cours.

4 – Only one rider was able to climb on the podium here for 4 different manufacturers: Marco Melandri (Yamaha in 2011, BMW in 2012, Aprilia in 2014 and Ducati in 2017).

4 – Only Razgatlioglu managed 4 straight wins at Magny-Cours (2022/SPR – 2023/SPR).

3 – Toprak Razgatlioglu is on a streak of 3 triple wins in the last 3 weekends. He is the only one with a streak of 4, scored last year from Misano to Algarve.

0.5 – The closest Championship finish of all-time came at Magny-Cours in 2012, with Max Biaggi beating Tom Sykes to the title by just half a point.

0.000 – In 2022, a new record for the smallest gap between polesitter and 2nd on the grid was set in Magny-Cours, as Rea and Razgatlioglu recorded exactly the same time, down to the smallest possible digit. Pole position was thus decided by the second-best lap time in favour of Rea.

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