Toprak to BMW in 2024

Didn't see that coming. Bautista signed with Ducati for 2024, I would have thought he'd have waited for that seat to be vacant.

Agree that the BMW seems to be a long way being competitive.

Yammy: Well toprak, we won't have a v4 to match a duc and that will take another 4 years.
Toprak: Siktir et şu saçmalığı, Lin.

Yammy: Lettuce be real, that bmw is a mixed salad that has rockers and no swing arm change can make it competitive.
Toprak: Bu noktada, herhangi bir bisiklet gelecek yıl için bu boktan parçadan daha iyidir.

BMW seem to be going for it in superbikes. They apparently think that driving a station wagon around before races is enough for their MotoGP program, maybe they are right.

BOTT said:

Yammy: Well toprak, we won't have a v4 to match a duc and that will take another 4 years.
Toprak: Siktir et şu saçmalığı, Lin.

Yammy: Lettuce be real, that bmw is a mixed salad that has rockers and no swing arm change can make it competitive.
Toprak: Bu noktada, herhangi bir bisiklet gelecek yıl için bu boktan parçadan daha iyidir.

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A similar conversation will take place soon in motogp. Just swap Toprak’s name for Fabio’s and Turkish for French. New ride TBD.

It must be the paycheck. BMW has signed great riders, and none have been competitive atop the beemer.

Toprak isn't going to MotoGP next year, he said he didn't connect with the bike and the Yamaha isn't exactly a tempting choice right now.

I can see Quatararo leaving Yamaha at the end of the season unless they find some new improvements fairly quickly but where would he go ? Honda - no. Aprilia seem to have lost their edge, KTM.. maybe.. they are getting more and more competitive.

I’d love to see Toprak on the v4 r.
I just can’t see this being a good move for him to go to bmw. It’s really difficult I think in modern racing to go to a struggling manufacturer and turn it around in a couple of years. Bautista knows this very well from his time at Honda. He couldn’t stop crashing and the bike still isn’t where it needs to be.

If BMW is paying him alot more money then it's a good move for him --just follow the $$$

I don't think the turk is a development rider. The germans are going to do it there way, so it's more a crapshoot he can outride it. But that HP is not there or those big names would have done something with it.

Besides, that bm is bagger material speed. It was a joke the day they put it up against their competition entering WSB.

Only way that podiums is if the front runners bowling ball themselves out of the race.

BOTT said:

Only way that podiums is if the front runners bowling ball themselves out of the race.

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Maybe MM will move from GP over to WSB and make that happen...

BenF04 said:

Didn't see that coming. Bautista signed with Ducati for 2024, I would have thought he'd have waited for that seat to be vacant.

Agree that the BMW seems to be a long way being competitive.

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No Zarco is going to ride the Ducati once he finishes in MotoGP

BenF04 said:

Toprak isn't going to MotoGP next year, he said he didn't connect with the bike and the Yamaha isn't exactly a tempting choice right now.

I can see Quatararo leaving Yamaha at the end of the season unless they find some new improvements fairly quickly but where would he go ? Honda - no. Aprilia seem to have lost their edge, KTM.. maybe.. they are getting more and more competitive.

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He was never going to MotoGP. He isn’t fast enough and no-one needs to take a punt on a Superbike rider when there is an excess of talent in the paddock already.

LA2SD said:

It must be the paycheck. BMW has signed great riders, and none have been competitive atop the beemer.

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Paycheck for sure and possibly not being fast enough for Yamaha in Motogp.

Lol remember what Redding said about the BMW?! “At least it looks fast.” Hahaha

He might have tested the new beemer in a secret, closed-doors session. Maybe he knows something we don’t.

Ya, a BMW running a panigale motor. A BM-ATI

Good move by BMW, not just for Topraq's undoubted speed but he knows what a great World Superbike feels like. Nothing against Redding, good rider, but his experience consists of MotoGP and a Ducati Superbike which is very different to the beam frame IL4 BMW.
VDM has been cruelled by injury in recent seasons so hoping Topraq get them on the right development path, the BMW is successful in most domestic series and a cracking road bike.

From my perspective Superbike or world Superbike riders aren’t going to make it in moto gp anymore. Yeah I remember Ben spies. The kids now all start in moto 3, 2. Toprak isn’t young either. I think 26?

I think Spies was the last successful WSBK rider in MotoGP...🤔