Toprak Razgatlioglu<\/a> comes to MotoGP off the back of winning his third title in World Superbikes, after beating Ducati\u2019s Nicolo Bulega in a dramatic finale at Jerez in October.<\/p>\nIn what has been a busy winter for the incoming MotoGP rookie, his pre-season preparations were kicked up a notch this week.<\/p>\n
Joining Turkish rally drivers Burak Baslik and Caglayan Celik, Razgatlioglu has been training behind the wheel of a Skoda WRC2-spec car.<\/p>\n
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
In a brief post on his Instagram channel, which accompanied a video of him in action, Razgatlioglu wrote: \u201cRally experience continues in a fun way.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe closed the day without any flip-flops. Thank you Burak Baslik and Caglayan Celik for this fun day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Razgatlioglu hit the headlines earlier this week following a performance on the Turkish version of singing talent show The Voice.<\/p>\n
He will appear in Pramac colours in public for the first time next week, when the Yamaha satellite team unveils its new livery for the 2026 season in Siena.<\/p>\n
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
The event on 13 January will see Razgatlioglu join new team-mate Jack Miller to launch Pramac\u2019s second season with Yamaha.<\/p>\n
The Turkish rider made his public test debut in MotoGP at the Valencia test last November, where he impressed on Yamaha\u2019s new V4 M1.<\/p>\n
He was 18th overall and just 1.3s off the best pace.<\/p>\n
Yamaha is yet to confirm its testing plans for the coming weeks, but it is likely Razgatlioglu will be on track during the Sepang shakedown at the end of January.<\/p>\n
The shakedown is open to test riders, rookies and riders who race for manufacturers in concession rank D, which Yamaha falls under.<\/p>\n
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pramac Yamaha rider Toprak Razgatlioglu has ramped up preparations for his maiden MotoGP season with training in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,7188,85,23899],"class_list":{"0":"post-399472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toprak-razgatlioglu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399472","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=399472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}