Lowes made 𒀰such comments when analysing his Race 2, in which both he and Jonathan Rea were passed by Redding as the BMW rider went on to claim his best WorldSBK finish of the year.

It wasn’t without a battl🤪e as Rea came back through on Redding with just a couple of laps remaining, however, the 2020 runner-up produced a great move on the run down to the Melbourne Loop. 

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The reason Lowes spoke 🗹about the BMW not being as bad as some have made it out to be, is because Redding had been quite vocal in his complaints regardi🏅ng the M 1000 RR’s performance.

Notဣ just in 2023, but also last season as the German manufacturer’s lack of competitiveness♈ saw Redding go from being a consistent race winner, to struggling for top ten finishes, on occasion. 

𓆉Discussing his race and the performance of Redding’s BMW, Lowes said: "I changed quite a big dampening setting for the rear shock. It’s something I wouldn’t normally try but because we seemed to be struggling so much more than the others, it seemed quite positive. 

"Gerloff was wild! He was making mistakes but then fast! I knew he was one 𝔉of the fastest guys at the end of the race; he seems to lack pace at th𒁏e start but at the end, he’s always one of the fastest guys. 

"He made a couple of mistakes, 🐼I got ahead and I felt quite strong coming back to Jonny. With seven or eight laps to go, I was in trouble, espe💙cially at Turn 2 when we’re on the side of the tyre and just spinning, so I was finding it hard to just stay in there. 

"Wh🗹ich is weird because Scott complains a lot about the BMW but when you see how much grid he had compared to us, you think ‘it can’t be that bad’."

On the other side of the factory Kawasaki garage, Rea was left slightly frustrated at not cla𝓰iming a third podium in Race 2. 

"It was frustrating to lose the fi🅷ght for the podium at the end," said the six-time world champion. "From the mid-part of the race, I ran out of rear traction. I was spinning a lot and the bike was moving. 

"Wi꧋th Scott, I thought maybe I could fight in the last corners, 🍷but he put together a pretty good penultimate and last sector. 

"It’s hard when the results are flipped; if I’d finished off the way I started in the Superpoleꦦ Race; I’d have been super happy. 

"It so goes that the start of my day was great and it didn’t end so wel꧃l with a P5, but we learnt a little bit more about our bike.&n🎃bsp;

"When the grip levels came up an༒d more rubber went down on the track, we struggled. The good thing with testing is we’ve sort of ticked the box of helping the front of the bike. Now we need to manage the rear tyre a little bit better at the end of races."