Remy Gardner says his expectations for 2025 haven’t modified “a lot” after ending on the rostrum in Race 2 on the third spherical of the World Superbike season at Assen.
The GRT Yamaha rider was working in fourth place within the closing phases of Race 2 at Assen, simply behind Alvaro Bautista within the last podium place, however benefitted from a penultimate-lap technical concern for Nicolo Bulega that noticed the Italian retire from the lead.
Gardner was then promoted to 3rd place, and held on to attain his first rostrum of the 2025 season, and Yamaha’s fourth.
The circumstances, although, meant that he was not drawing any conclusions from the end result about what it’d imply for the results of the season.
“Not a lot,” Gardner stated when requested by WorldSBK.com if his expectations for the remainder of the season are modified by the rostrum end.
“Hopefully we will carry this confidence into the subsequent rounds, however for certain we now have a number of work to do and perceive with the bike the place we have to enhance.
“However hopefully it’s a superb confidence enhance for the crew, for Yamaha, and we will preserve pushing.”
Nonetheless, the Australian was happy to take the end result after a troublesome finish to 2024 and starting to this season.
“It’s nice,” Gardner stated. “We had a extremely powerful finish to final season; I completed the season with a damaged wrist that feels okay however we began this season struggling once more so it’s not been straightforward.
“So, it’s good to lastly have a superb outcomes once more and we’ve been constructing the boldness again up.
“However positively not [an easy start to the season]: we completed Portimao with a crash on Sunday, I damage my shoulder [and] it’s been actually sore for the final weeks, so I used to be completely satisfied I used to be in a position to come right here and handle that.
“It hasn’t been a simple weekend, both, slightly bit troublesome with tyre alternative, setup, and in the present day we put the whole lot collectively, we had a little bit of luck, and eventually we had a podium.”
