Imola WorldSBK: Alex Lowes: "We’ve been dreaming for a long time, Sam will be strong in WorldSBK"
That will finally come true in 2024, when Sam switches from Moto2 to join Alex on the World Superbike grid, riding for a new Mar🎉c VDS Ducati team.
The pair have not previously competed head-to-head as prof👍essional riders, with the last time they regul๊arly shared a grid thought to be in the 2008 European Superstock 600 series.
Sam later used the 2010 Bri꧑tish 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 take 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 Cha🧸mpionship 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 great.
“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 a𝄹nd maybe race together one day. On a personal note, away from the track, I am so, so happy.
“With our current schedules, we spend a lot of time apart but to race tog✤ether, travel togethe🍰r, it’s going to be fantastic.
“The [Marc VꦛDS] 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 bike and the team to𝄹 be strong.”
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 s🌳tory and Marc Marque🍷z’s injury issues.
