Imola WorldSBK: Alex Lowes: "We’ve been dreaming for a long time, Sam will be strong in WorldSBK"
That will finally c🗹ome true in 2024, when Sam switches from Moto2 to join Alex on the World Superbike grid🅠, riding for a new Marc VDS Ducati team.
The pai🎃r have not previously competed head-to-head as professional riders, with the last time they regularly shared a grid thought to be in the 2008 European Superstock 600 series.
Sam later used the 2010 British Supersport title as a springboard to World Supersport (champion in 2013) and then 🌟on to Moto2 and MotoGP. Meanwhile, Alex’s path to WorldSBK came via the British Superbike class, which he won ෴in 2013.
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Alex, who has gone on to t🐻ake two wins and 34 podiums in WorldSBK, will remain at the Kawasaki Racing Team next season.
“I’m excited for him and the team! We’re really close but to have another good team in 🏅the WorldSBK Championship is good and maybe in the future, it might even be two riders,” Aleix said.
“For such a good team in Moto2 to arrive here is only going to make the Championship stronger. Marc van der Straten is a fantastic guy and his personality will be gre🧔at.
“On the other side, about my brother, it’s fantastic! We’ve been 🍷dreaming for a long, long time since we were kids, to race motorbikes and maybe ♛race together one day. On a personal note, away from the track, I am so, so happy.
“With our current sched👍ules, we spend a lot of time apart but ཧto race together, travel together, it’s going to be fantastic.
“The [Marc VDS] team have been World Champions and Sam has won a Grand Prix just two months ago, so the level he is riding at is fantastic so we can expect him, the bi🐎ke and the team to be stron𒊎g.”
Sam - who battled for the Moto2 title against future MotoGP stars Enea Bastianini, Luca Marini, Marco 🐎Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin until the final round of 2020 - has won ten races in the intermediate class, the last seven 🐷of them with Marc VDS. He also spent the 2017 season in MotoGP with Aprilia.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Maꦏrquez’s injury issues.
