Having suffered a major shoulder damage on the WorldSBK Czech Spherical in 2024, Sam Lowes is heading again to Most this yr with “a degree to show”.
Lowes, who contested his debut World Superbike marketing campaign in 2024, crashed in the course of the Superpole Race at Most final yr, sustaining a damaged collarbone. It was a low level of a season which confirmed flashes of promise from Lowes, however which finally not often materialised into outcomes, particularly within the races after the Czech Spherical wherein his finest consequence was eleventh in Race 2 at Cremona.
“I’m wanting ahead to getting again to Most, final yr was a sophisticated weekend for me – not a foul weekend for the primary time right here, however I had the crash and harm my shoulder so it ruined my yr a bit,” Lowes stated, talking to WorldSBK.com forward of the WorldSBK Czech Spherical.
“So I’ve a bit of little bit of a degree to show, only for myself in opposition to the monitor, this weekend, which is good motivator.
“However, so far as the weekend and the monitor goes, I’m actually wanting ahead to driving right here, it’s an satisfying monitor, and prepared for FP1.”
Whereas the motivation to seek out some redemption at Most is there after final yr, Lowes is arriving within the Czech Republic off the again of two sturdy rounds within the Netherlands and Italy the place he was in a position to qualify on the entrance row and present sturdy tempo in moist and dry situations.
“The primary aim [at Most] will simply proceed [the form from] the previous few races, to be in that top-four-or-five, have good tempo, do the job, work exhausting on the Friday, after which progress on the weekend,” he stated.
“The climate may play an element – it appears not dangerous, however may rain in some unspecified time in the future, so now we have to be prepared for that.”
Lowes’ latest type has pulled him as much as sixth within the championship and into place because the second-placed satellite tv for pc Ducati rider, behind Danilo Petrucci, with a factors complete after 4 rounds that it 20 factors greater than it was after 12 rounds in 2024.
“I feel I’ve 20-odd extra factors than final yr already, so I feel it’s clearly so much higher than my rookie season,” Lowes stated.
“I’m feeling so much higher with the bike, I really feel like I’m almost in a position to trip the bike how I need now.
“It’s an enormous motivation, driving the Ducati, figuring out how good the bike is; however nonetheless now we have to be there, now we have to do the job.
“I’m proud of [the season so far], I’d say I’d give it an eight-out-of-10 to date, possibly 8.5 on a few of the weekends, and simply seeking to make that subsequent step.
“Clearly, Bulega’s doing an incredible job – if I simply have a look at the Ducatis – so I have to make a step to be nearer to him and that’s what we’ll maintain making an attempt to do.”
