Alex Lowes will remain with the current Kawasaki team in the Superbike World Championship for 2025 when it will become Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team. The signing took place before this weekend’s Misano round.
After four seasons with Yamaha, the British rider moved to Kawasaki in 2020 to pair with Jonathan Rea. Despite securing only three wins and 17 podiums, he has been a valuable asset, also contributing to the 2020 constructors’ title, which was won by just one point. This year, Lowes is the most experienced rider in Kawasaki’s ranks following Axel Bassani’s arrival from Ducati’s Motocorsa team.
Guim Roda, the KRT team manager, stated in a press release: ‘With Alex we are on a great journey. We started in Covid times in a difficult season for him to get his racing rhythm, and in ‘21 and ‘22 he suffered various injuries that did not allow him to show his true potential. But he still showed his speed and other qualities in those years. Now is time to take consistency to a new level. Lately rule limitations did not allow us to extract all the potential of our ZX-10RR, but this season we had possibilities to upgrade certain areas on the bike and that has certainly helped Alex. He has a very good mind set, and he has become a good ambassador for Kawasaki’.
The leader emphasized the stability achieved: ‘We want to continue with solid our structure next season, and we have next challenges to achieve with BbKRT project so we need all our best tools to make it good’.