Lowes enjoyed a💃 strong start to the Portimao WorldSBK weekend af🤡ter finishing fifth in Race 1, however, that’s as good as it got for the British rider.

A crash on the opening lap of the Superpole Race saw him lose out on a po🐠𓄧tential podium, before the Kawasaki rider was absent from Race 2.

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As a resu🦂lt of finishing Sunday’s doub♍le-header scoreless, Lowes has dropped down to ninth spot in the standings, behind Xavi Vierge who is also on 140 points. 

Speaking after Race 2, Low🐠es said: “A disappointing day, obviously. My start was not that bad in the Superpole Race, and it is always good to be starting near the front. 

“It was a little bit better than Jonathan’s but then he came past in T1. I was tryin🌺g not to be too aggressive, but at the start of those Superpole races if you do not attack you get attacked. 

“So I was just on the back of Jonny; had a little look in T3, and as we went into T4 I had a really ♌good run but I stayed to the right of him. 

“I could see that he made to go past Locatelli. I cut to the apex rather than stay on the outside and maybe get caught in this issue, so I 🍰cut into the inside. 

“But I couldn’t see, I got blindsided and hit the inside of the corner. It is a sh꧅ame because I think I would have had a good chance. 

“Even when the team repaired the bike when I went back out, my pace was for the top five. I went sprinting towards my bike, full of adrenaline, but we know that it is not too long since I had knee surger🧜y. 

“When I went out a⛎gain I was not 100%. So I will go home, reset and try to finish the year stro🐈ngly in Jerez.”

Lowes has not stepped on the podium since the second round of the year in Mandalika, although he🐈 still has one more chance to change that at Jerez later this month.