Toprak Razgatlioglu finished last in the MotoGP Sprint at Silverstone, over 30 seconds behind the winner, and admitted to being "surprised" by the rear tyre drop he experienced during the race.
Like the vast majority of the MotoGP grid, Razgatlioglu chose the soft-compound rear tyre for the Sprint. But like most riders who made this choice, he encountered grip issues after a few laps.
For him, the issues were especially pronounced. By the end of the Sprint, he was lapping over four seconds slower than his best time of the race.
"I'm very surprised because the beginning is not so bad, just I have a turning problem because we tried a different setup for the race," Razgatlioglu said after the Sprint. "I'm already not really like it after the first lap, but I'm not expecting this tyre drop because this one is really strange."
He felt the spin in FP2 but not as severe as in the Sprint. "After four or five laps later, the tyres drop incredibly. I'm not able to enter the corner because I lose the rear and I'm not able to lean," he explained.
He even clocked a 2m04s on his final lap, which he called incredible. "I'm not leaning the bike and I don't understand why. I checked the data with my crew chief," he added.
Looking ahead to Sunday's main race, Pramac Racing hopes to find a solution. Razgatlioglu stressed, "I need to improve because this one is very strange. I hope we find this problem because the rear grip is my biggest problem."
Meanwhile, his teammate Jack Miller opted for the medium rear tyre and finished 13th, almost 20 seconds ahead of his grip-less teammate. Miller said the decision was correct after poor experiences with the soft tyre in practice.
"That [medium-compound rear tyre] was for me the correct decision," Miller said. "I knew it was going to be difficult at the beginning, but at the end we were able to come back through. No points, but a decent Sprint race for us."
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