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Razgatlioglu leads the pack in a wet Sunday Warm Up session as Vickers impresses in P3 and Bulega slips to P8

Sunday, 27 July 2025 07:26 GMT

    • The front three were the only riders down into the 1’52s range on the first day of wet riding at Balaton Park Circuit

    The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship field took to the grid first to uncork track action for a historic day in motorsport history. At the first WorldSBK Hungarian Round in 35 years, Razgatlioglu maintained his form to top the timesheet at Balaton again. He led Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team), who has been fast all weekend, and Ryan Vickers, who impressed in the wet conditions ahead of Sunday’s pair of races

    #1 P1: Razgatlioglu flexes his wet weather prowess

    The defending Champion landed atop the timesheets with the fastest time of 1’52.225, outpacing Sam Lowes by a quarter of a second on Sunday morning. Ryan Vickers (Motocorsa Racing) flexed his BSB rainy conditions experience in Hungary at Balaton Park, as he outpaced Ducati heavy hitters like Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati,) who finished back in P8. The British rookie finished with a time of 1’52.846s.

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    Danilo Petrucci's (Barni Spark Racing Team) 1’53.286s fastest time was enough to see him land P4 in the Warm Up session. Behind him, his teammate Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team) was just 0.009s behind the experienced #9 to sit P5. Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) finished top Italian in P6 with his 1’53.491s time.

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    Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) finished in an improved P7, just two hundredths of a second slower than Locatelli ahead of him. Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati) struggled in the wet Hungarian conditions, as did his teammate Alvaro Bautista, as the pair finished P8 and P9 aboard their Ducati Panigale V4 Rs. Bulega’s time was 1’53.587s, faster than 1’53.743s.  Polishing off the top 10, Jonathan Rea (Pata Maxus Yamaha) finished with a time of 1’53.831s.

    The top six from the WorldSBK Warm up session: FULL RESULTS HERE!

    1 Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) 1’52.225s

    2. Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) +0.250s

    3.Ryan Vickers (Motocorsa Racing) +0.621s

    4. Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) +1.061s

    5. Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team) +1.070s

    6. Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) +1.266s

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