Home favourite Michael van der Mark names target for Dutch WorldSBK

Michael van der Mark has his sights set on the podium at this weekend’s 🍬Du🐽tch WorldSBK.

Michael van der Mark, 2025 Dutch WorldSBK, media. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Michael van der Mark, 2025 Dutch WorldSBK, media. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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WorldSBK’s sole Dutch rider, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael van der Mark, says he “really wants to be on the podium,” at this weekend’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike round at Assen, having not finished on the podium at ho✨me with BMW.

Van der Mark’s last podium at Assen came back in 2019 when he was second in Race 2. Third in Race 1, too,🍒 that weekend on the Yamaha, the current BMW rider has strong historic form at t🔯he circuit where he took his first World Superbike podium in 2015.

“It’s always nice to have your home round and I love being here at Assen𝓡,” van der Mark🍷 said ahead of the Dutch Round.

“It’s a track I really enjoy riding, especially with how things went in the last round at Portimao, [so I’m] reওally looking 🍌forward to it. I think we could be quite strong.”

He added: “I really want to be on the podium here. As we’ve seen before, the field is very competitive and close, so we have to work on details. I think🌞 we can be quite strong, and my dream is to be on the podium.”

Reflecting on Portimao, where he was able𒉰 to finish in the top-six in both long races, van der Mark stressed the importance of the pre-event test at the Portuguese venue two weeks before racing there.

“The best thing for us ꩲwas we had a good test at Portim🐓ao,” he said.

▨“We had many ideas after Australia, and we needed to find somethin🔜g.

“At Portimao, we had the package 🌊ready, and we had something where we feel comfortable; it’s not the best yet but at least we have something we can be very consistent with.”

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