Alex Lowes after first race wins in four years: ‘Unbelievable day, Race 2 was chaos’
Alex Lowes returned to the winners circle after producing two stunning performances at ♓the Phillip Island WorldS🎐BK round.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Lowes was unstoppable in the WorldSBK Superpole Race before a last-lap overtake on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista sealed his second win in a row.
Speaking after his double, Lowes said: “It was an unbelievable day♔! The secondཧ race was chaos from the start. It was a little bit delayed, and in the first part of the race Toprak’s bike blew up.
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“I was nearly off track, I did well to stay ꦦon. Then, Jonathan had a big crash, so I hope he’s okay. I was dropping back a little bit, but just before the red flag, I had a couple of good sectors to get back on my brother.
“I had some good speed, and the temperature was down a little bit. My focus in the restart was to make a good start, put myself in the first three or foꦫur positions.
“I knew Toprak wasn’ꦇt there, and when he is, you have to ride a little bit more defensively because he’s ✱always going to have a pass.
“Once I got settled into the race, I was struggling to stay with Bauti🦩sta a little bit and Michae🐲l.”
Like his e🐽fforts in the Su🌜perpole Race, Lowes grew stronger as the race went on and beginning pressuring Bautista with just a few laps to go.
Lowes himself came under pressure from Andrea Locatelli who appeare🌌d t𒆙o have greater speed than the top two.
But after a mistake from Locatelli resulted in him highsidin༺g out of co꧂ntention, Lowes then charged past Bautista with a brave move at turn nine.
Talking about the closing stages, Lowes added: “Locatelli passed me at Turn 4. He was going to hit the back of Bautista, so he went wide and then I managed to stay on the line, stay close to&🍬nbsp;
“Alvaro because, in my♛ head, I was thinking he was struggling to enter the corner because the grip was going. I 🌳knew I could be really fast through Turn 8 and into Turn 9.
“This was my chance to pass him and try to stop the bike into Turn 10 and 11. I had a little plan, and it went quite w📖ell.
“In the end, I had𒀰 a lot more grip than Alvaro which allowe꧟d me to make this pass.”