{"id":264276,"date":"2025-11-05T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264276\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:34:11","slug":"toprak-razgatlioglu-to-test-yamaha-motogp-bike-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264276\/","title":{"rendered":"Toprak Razgatlioglu to test Yamaha MotoGP bike on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toprak Razgatlioglu will start his new career in MotoGP with a private Yamaha test at Aragon on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The outing, reported by GPOne.com, will mark the triple World Superbike champion\u2019s first laps on a MotoGP machine since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>After Aragon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995265\/toprak-razgatlioglu\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Razgatlioglu <\/a>will then share a track with his new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> MotoGP<\/a> rivals &#8211; minus the injured Marc Marquez &#8211; for the first time at the official post-season Valencia test on November 18.<\/p>\n<p>However, Aragon may not be Razgatlioglu\u2019s only &#8216;extra&#8217; MotoGP track time this year.<\/p>\n<p>While Honda is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1085736\/1\/hondas-current-motogp-form-puts-it-risk-major-benefit-loss-2026-season\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on course to lose D concession privileges<\/a>, Yamaha is expected to retain full benefits, including private test days with contracted riders.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>After the official Valencia test, Crash.net understands that Razgatlioglu &#8211; who has signed to join Pramac alongside Jack Miller &#8211; could swiftly return to the track for another private outing, ahead of the winter ban on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>The ban ends with the Sepang Shakedown (January 29-31), which all Yamaha race riders are also eligible to attend, followed by the official Sepang test from February 3-5.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha is yet to confirm that its new V4 engine will replace the existing inline-four for 2026, and Razgatlioglu\u2019s machinery for the Aragon outing &#8211; starting on the same weekend as the Portuguese MotoGP &#8211; is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish star last tested a MotoGP bike in early 2023, also with Yamaha, before joining BMW and winning two more WorldSBK titles.<\/p>\n<p>Superbike title rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1043899\/nicolo-bulega\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolo Bulega<\/a> will beat Razgatlioglu to a MotoGP race debut after being called up to replace injured champion Marquez at Ducati for the Portimao and Valencia rounds.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toprak Razgatlioglu will start his new career in MotoGP with a private Yamaha test at Aragon on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,7188,85,23899,3561],"class_list":["post-264276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","tag-sports","tag-toprak-razgatlioglu","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264276","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=264276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}