It's all a bit excuses and excuses at times isn't it ? I mean if his team mate is destroying him (and most others) every week, you've got to question whether he'll ever get there.Despite claiming his first podium of the 2022 WorldSBK season and producing another brilliant Superpole lap at Donington Park, Alex Lowes was left disappointed after race two due to losing ‘confidence in the front, I couldn’t stop the bike, I was sliding early on’.
His best overall performance of the 2022 WorldSBK season thus far, Donington Park was a weekend where Lowes managed to claim a race one podium after getting the better of Scott Redding in the closing stages.
But as was the case for team-mate Jonathan Rea, high track temperatures were just one of the issues that proved too much for Kawasaki to overcome, specifically during Sunday’s double-header.
In Misano we saw Kawasaki struggle compared to Yamaha and Ducati when track conditions ramped up significantly, and Donington Park was another case of that.
The knock-on effect it had provided Lowes with further troubles in race two, as a lack of confidence with the front of his ZX10-RR was something the British rider had not experienced all weekend.
After narrowly missing out on a second podium in the Superpole race, Lowes detailed the exact problems he faced: "In race two I tried a little, very, very small change on the front of the bike which I don’t think really made a difference. But I just didn’t have the confidence that I had in the front all weekend.
"I think the temperatures jumped up and I couldn’t stop the bike. I was sliding the front early on and it made the race a little bit boring. I was a bit lonely really.
"I had no speed to pass; I tried passing Rinaldi early on and he came straight back past on the start-finish [straight] and then I was just hanging in there. It was the best I could do. It’s a shame really because we seem to really drop off when it gets to that 45 degrees.
Of course we can also throw this to Locatelli and Rinaldi of course...
