{"id":210092,"date":"2025-10-13T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:46:07","slug":"andrea-iannone-hits-back-at-crazy-toprak-razgatlioglu-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210092\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Iannone hits back at \u201ccrazy\u201d Toprak Razgatlioglu theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Accusations of an intra-manufacturer alliance at Ducati from Toprak Razgatlioglu after the Estoril WorldSBK have prompted a sharp response from Andrea Iannone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/news\/1083964\/1\/toprak-razgatlioglu-accuses-worldsbk-riders-lack-respect-title-battle\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Razgatlioglu spoke after the race of the lack of respect<\/a> he felt some riders in the field had towards his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1043899\/nicolo-bulega\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> title battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1043899\/nicolo-bulega\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolo Bulega<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The BMW rider also made specific comments about Iannone, whom Razagtlioglu had decided deliberately jumped the start \u2013 for which the Italian earned a double long lap penalty \u2013 in order to try to interfere with Razgatlioglu.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The evidence for Razgatlioglu\u2019s theory was that Iannone tried to pass him back when the Turkish rider made his move into third place on the second lap of Race 2.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIannone received a penalty and did a good job,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995265\/toprak-razgatlioglu\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toprak Razgatlioglu<\/a> said, as reported by Speedweek.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI overtook him, then he tried to counter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhy is he trying to fight with me when he has a long-lap penalty?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Ducati also have a dashboard, right? Later it became clear to me \u2013 because he rides a Ducati.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1060\/andrea-iannone\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Iannone<\/a> took to his Instagram story on Sunday evening (12 October), saying Razgatlioglu\u2019s accusations were \u201ccrazy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDear Toprak,\u201d Iannone wrote, \u201cYou\u2019re a very talented, smart, and strong rider.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have great respect for you and your team.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI just want to make one thing clear: I always go out on track to win and give my best just like you do.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s crazy to think I\u2019d ever make a jump start on purpose to penalise you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019d never do that. I\u2019d never start a race to help someone or to ruin my own.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe both come to the races with the same goal.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGood luck.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSee you in Jerez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Locatelli also under fire<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Razgatlioglu didn\u2019t only target Iannone after the race, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995303\/andrea-locatelli\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Locatelli<\/a>, who he felt had defended especially strongly when Razgatlioglu tried to take over second place at turn nine on lap two of the final race of the Estroril weekend.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn turn nine he drove in the middle, that was very strange,\u201d Razgatlioglu said, as reported by Speedweek.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI shook my head because I&#8217;m fighting with Nicolo [Bulega].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn 2019, I always respected [Jonathan] Rea and Alvaro Bautista because they were fighting for the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI held back then, but no one thinks about the championship today. Everyone just wants to show themselves \u2013 that&#8217;s not good. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so angry about the first laps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accusations of an intra-manufacturer alliance at Ducati from Toprak Razgatlioglu after the Estoril WorldSBK have prompted a sharp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[111332,64,63,806,805,803,804,23900,85,28725,23899],"class_list":{"0":"post-210092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-andrea-iannone","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-rokit-bmw-motorrad-worldsbk-team","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-team-pata-go-eleven","18":"tag-toprak-razgatlioglu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}