Alex Lowes: “It’s a pleasure to get a podium on the final day for me on the Kawasaki”

“It’s nice for the team to have a strong weekend, nicꦗe to get P4 in the championship, and overall we’re happy.”

Alex Lowes, 2024 Spanish WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Alex Lowes, 2024 Spanish WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Alex Lowes’ 2024 World Superbike season ended with solid results at the Spanish Round 🌟in Jerez as he ended his time on the Kawasaki ZX-10RR.

The highlight of Lowes’ weekend — which began with technical issues in FP1 — was the Superpole Race podium, but he also achieved strಌong results in Race 1 and Race 2, with fourth on Saturday 𝓡and fifth in the final race of the season.

“A proper solid weekend,” Lo🔯wes concluded when speaking to WorldSBK.com after Race 2 ꧅in Jerez.

“It’s a pleasure to get a🧸 podium on the final day for me on the Kawasaki. I felt a bit of pressure this weekend to deliver a good weekend; it’s been a nice five years for me on the project.

“Overall, the Kawasaki with the KRT team has been one of the 🐭most succ🥀essful bikes in World Superbike history.

“So, it’s nice for the team to have a strong weekend, nice to get P4 in the cham🐽pionshi🍃p, and overall we’re happy.”

Lowes isn’t moving teams at the end of this year but the Provec Racing team will switch from the Kawasaki ZX-10RR it has run as the factory Kawasaki outfit since 2011 to a new Kawasaki-powered Bimota fo🍷r 2025.

Even switching from Kawasaki’s famous green 💧and stepping away from the ZX-10RR he’s ridden since the beginning of 2020 is something significant f♑or Lowes.

“It’s made it easier, because I’m staying with 💮the team,” he said. “I wasn’t getting emotional, bu💧t I was thinking ‘This is going to be the last time I ride this bike in anger’ — for now, anyway.

“Obviously, the team around me is staying the same. So, it wasn’t ▨too bad. It would have been a lot worse if I was leaving the guys.

💙“But it’s a great bike. I’ve loved riding the bike, honestly.”

2025 target “just to improve”

Thinking ahead to 2025 and the Bimota, Lowes was doing his best to man♛age expectations.

“It’s going to be a new challenge,” he said. “We need to be patient, we need to work hard in the wi♔nter — World Superbikes is never easy.

“We don’t know where we’🐟rꦫe going to start, but our target is going to be just to improve.

“It’s nice to see the relationshi𓂃p between Bimota, Kawasaki, the investment that’s going in, let’s say t✤he enthusiasm from the team.

“But we need to be paওtient and s✅ee where we start off.”

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