Toprak Razgatlioglu suffered a serious front-end scare through the Sepang MotoGP take a look at on the identical nook the place fellow Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo was injured.
Quartararo misplaced the entrance of his V4 engine in high-speed Flip 5 on the primary day of official testing, fracturing his finger.
The Frenchman returned that afternoon, however then encountered a technical drawback that in the end compelled him to sit down out the whole Yamaha race for the second day, though it was later determined that he would return to Europe for remedy.
Toprak Razgatrioglu, 2026 Sepang MotoGP Take a look at (Gold & Goose).
Toprak Razgatlioglu later revealed that he had additionally had an in depth name on the identical day and in the identical nook.
“I misplaced the entrance this morning. It is actually scary! Nook 5, medium tire,” he mentioned. “I used to be in a position to go away a ravishing black line. It’s totally lengthy!”
“I used to be in a position to choose up the bike with quite a lot of strain on my knees. However I used to be fortunate. I feel the bike would have been fully destroyed if I crashed. The fifth nook is a bit harmful…”
“Nonetheless, my bike is built-in and I wish to hold it that means!”
Razgatlioglu, who rode all three days of the earlier shakedown, returned on the ultimate day of official MotoGP testing and recorded the 18th quickest time (+1.924 seconds).
