WORLDSBK MEDIA CENTRE

A successful trip to the beach for Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, Andrea Locatelli and Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK will come in the form of trophies and championship points rather than relaxation and gelato, as the 2023 FIM Superbike World Championship continues at Misano World Circuit “Marco Simoncelli” on the Adriatic coast in Italy this week. As good as a “home race” for...

Yamaha Motor Europe is pleased to announce that Andrea Locatelli will remain with Yamaha until the end of the 2025 season, after agreeing terms with the 26-year-old Italian to extend the existing agreement for two more years. Currently lying third in the WorldSBK championship standings, and a podium finisher five times already this season, Locatelli first rode for Yamaha back...

The 2021 Superbike World Champion, Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, will leave the Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK Team at the end of the 2023 season as he and Yamaha amicably end their successful four-year relationship together, with the Turkish rider seeking a new challenge for 2024. Razgatlıoğlu’s potential on two wheels was clear from a young age. He won several national Turkish Motocross...

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Andrea Locatelli completed a positive and successful pre-race test at Misano World Circuit “Marco Simoncelli” in Italy today, despite inclement weather over two days of running. With intermittent opportunities to test set-up between bouts of rain on Friday, the majority of laps were completed on Thursday during dry, sunny weather before a storm came in at just...

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Andrea Locatelli took the fight together to their competition, and came away with three podium finishes in two more spectacular races at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya at the fourth round of the 2023 FIM Superbike World Championship today. Target number one was to improve grid position for both riders in the 10-lap Superpole Race this morning, but...

Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK riders Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Andrea Locatelli turned their fortunes around with a superb second-place podium and fine fourth place respectively in Race 1 of the FIM Superbike World Championship in Spain today. In a day disrupted by red flags, the Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK riders lost their potential chance to start on the front two rows...

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Andrea Locatelli completed a productive opening day at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, at the fourth round of the 2023 FIM Superbike World Championship today. The Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK crew put their heads down and got to work over two 45-minute Free Practice sessions, in search of set-up and strategies to manage tyre life on the Calatan circuit’s...