BMW rider Toprak Razgatlioglu is crowned 2024 WSBK champion
A dream weekend with a fairytale ending – that is how BMW Motorrad Motorsport can describe the season finale of the 2024 FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) at Jerez de la Frontera in Spain.
On Saturday, Toprak Razgatlioglu from the ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team was crowned World Champion early with his BMW M 1000 RR. In the second main race on Sunday, he celebrated his 18th win of the season, and teammate Michael van der Mark made the dream of a shared podium come true with a third-place finish.
“We are World Champions – this was the end to a very long season and a very successful year in which we also had 13 wins in a row. We never gave up, and also today after the sprint race, we were working hard with the team… Usually Ducati is very strong here but we beat them again so everybody understood that BMW is really strong at all race weekends. It was incredible to be on the podium together with Mickey. It was dream, together with the team, to share the podium and it finally came true,” said Razgatlioglu, who was also the WSBK champion in 2021.
Razgatlioglu arrived at Jerez de la Frontera with a large point lead that a second place in Saturday’s first race was enough to secure the World Championship title. But he wanted another win. In Sunday’s Superpole race, he finished second again, but in the second main race, he stood on the top step of the podium one more time. After two sixth-place finishes, van der Mark reached the podium in the final race, his second after his victory at Magny-Cours, France.
The Bonovo action BMW Racing Team had their final race weekend with the BMW M 1000 RR at Jerez de la Frontera, as the partnership came to an end after four years. Garrett Gerloff finished the season with two seventh-place finishes on Sunday, while Scott Redding took twelfth place twice.
In the 2024 season, BMW M 1000 RR riders secured a total of 19 victories and 12 additional podium finishes, while BMW secured a runner up finish in the manufacturers’ championship.
