Alex Lowes ‘happy’ after damage limitation at a circuit that’s ‘not the easiest for us’
Alex Lowes kept himself firmly in WorldSBK title cont𓆉ention after a strong Catalunya round.

A circuit that has posed Kawasaki issues in the past due to high tyre wear, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Lowes was strong as he claimed top seven finishes in all three WorldSBK races.
Lowe✤s, who is now tied on 75 points with Alvaro Bautista for second in the standings, was again stronger than teammate Axel Bassani.
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Speaking 🔯after Sunday’s Race 2, Lowes added: “I am really happy with how our Sunday went because this is not the easiest track for us.
“It has been a difficult weekend and w🌞e didn’t really have the speed in the recent tests or on Friday in Free Practice.
“So to get three top six results is good. I was really strong at the end of the last r﷽ace, catching Petrucci and Gardner, trying to get into the top five.
“After Australia we were expecting a lot but we know this track is quite difficult. I enjoyed the Superpole Race and feeling comfortabl🎐e with the bike.
“I was able to do the best laps we🐟 have made at the track and improve my race time compared to last year🦂 by quite a lot.
“Overall, we have to b⛦e happy. I enjoyed the team’s hꦯome race and I am already looking forward to the next round in Assen.”
A tough opening round in Australia was backed up in Catalunya for Bassani who could only managed tenth asౠ his best result.
The Italian, through no fault of his own, saw his weekendꦫ come to an early end after failing to finish following contact 🌠with Andrea Locatelli and Michael Rinaldi in Race 2.
“The💮 Superpole Race was good but it is difficult to recover places even if we had 20 💮laps,” said Bassani. “With ten laps in the Superpole race it was quite impossible.
“We lost some positions in the last laps. It was ꦍnot easy but the feeling was better than yesterday.
“For sure we have to work a lot with the f🔯ront, and also the rear as I don’t really have a good feeling. But it was better.
🍸“In Race Two, the feeling was really good even at the end of the forma༒tion lap, because we had changed something.
“I recovered some positions in the first threꦆe corners, so I was able to be𒅌 in P9 and then I would manage my race to arrive at the end in a good position.
“But, Michael Ruben Rinaldi arrived straight at me and that put me down really strongly. It is a shame because I think today we had the possibility to stay with Aꦐlex, with Johnny, and try to arrive in seventh or eighth place.
“For us that would be not bad. We will start again in the Netherlands and see wha🤡t happens.”