Lowes, who is switching to the World Superbike Champions♉hip with Marc VDS in 2024, has won ten times🦩 as a Moto2 r🗹ider and sprayed podium champagne on 26 occasions since 2014.

But despite a pair of home pole positions, even a Silver🍸stone podium has so far eluded him.

Lowes didn’t even get beyond opening practice last year, suffering a serious shoulder injury, but the 32-year-old no🔯w gets one last chance to shine in front of the British Grand Prix fans.

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Speaking exclusively to mahbx.com about his final Silverstone appearance, before his future𒊎 WorldSBK deal was officially confirmed, Lowes said:

🅺“I’ve thought about that already. It's the one that's got away from me. I've had a couple of poles at Silverst🌸one, but last year obviously was a nightmare.

“So for me to win t🌄he British Grand Prix would be massive. And if this is my last British Grand Prix, I've got to give it a good go!

“The way the bike is working now, I will have everything I need to win. It will be down to me. So I just need to ge📖t through FP1…

“But that will be a big weekend for me. It's one of those things in my caree▨r, to win the💙 British Grand Prix would be massive.”

Lowes, who is eighth in the standings, and countryman Jake Dixon are the only riders other than title leaders Tony Arbolino and Pedro Acosta to have wo🌸n a Moto2 race so far this season.

“This year, from testing onwards the base of the bike works very good for me,” Lowes said. “The new forks work very well for me. So the package of🐎 the bike is better for my riding style. I'm more competitive in ꦓgeneral, and Silverstone should be no different.”

The #22’s best Silverstone grand prix finish𝕴 to date is fourth place in 2021 while he finished second at the fam🌱ous Northamptonshire track in World Supersport during both 2012 and his title-winning 2013 campaign.

“I can go down the pub and say, ‘It wasn’t too bad in the end!’”

Reflecting on leaving the grand prix paddock, L🙈owes - joint fifth on the all-time Moto2 win♎ list with Pol Espargaro, behind only Marc Marquez, Johann Zarco, Tito Rabat and Thomas Luthi - admitted the end of 2020 will remain a ‘what if’.

Lowes hadn’t even started the 2020 season-opener due to a winter shoulder injury but went on to lead the Covid-delayed campaign with just three rounds to go, taking his first M🦹oto2 wins since a miserable 2017 MotoGP season at Aprilia in the process.

Enea Bastianini then retook ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe Moto2 title lead from Loไwes by a slim six points heading into the penultimate round, where Lowes suffered a disastrous double wrist fracture in practice at Valencia.

That helped Bastඣianini to a 14-point advantage over Lowes for the Portimao finale🍸, a week later, with fellow future MotoGP stars Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini also in mathematical title contention.

There wer♕e major question marks over whether Lowes could even reach the finish, but he defied the pain to run as high as second and completed the podium in third, behind Remy Gardner and Marini, having bea🦄ten both Bezzecchi and Bastianini.

But the final score saw Baꦬstianini crowned champion by nine points over Marini and Lowes, who were tied for second. Equal on wins, the Italian was credited with titl🐟e runner-up due to an additional second-place over Lowes.

“It would be hard to lea🦋ve without winning the [Moto2] championship but I was nine points off in 2020 with the injury at the end and I’ve got to live with that,” said Lowes, 32.

“I've got a lot♑ of emotion to try and win this championship, bღut I’ve been here for a long time and would I get another MotoGP chance even if I was a Moto2 champion? I don’t think so.

“Also because [the title] just happens too l🏅ate [in the year]. That's the trouble. The MotoGP seats are already taken by then✅.

“If I decided on one mor🔯e year here [in Moto2], I feel like I might miss the boat to go there [to WorldSBK]. I might end up♛ just doing one or two more years [in Moto2] and fizzling out.

“I’d still be happy with my career but I've got a lot more 💃than that to give. I’m not thinking about stopping. I still l𝐆ove it. I could ride every day!

“So what do I do next then?

"Well, I can go there and try to win in World Superbike. Imagine if you could win races in World Superbike, World Supꦯersport and Moto2?

“Yeah, I didn't quite make it in MotoGP, bu༺t when I'm 50 years old I can go down the pub and say, 'It wasn’t too bꦓad in the end!'”

The 2023 British Grand Prix, the fi🎃rst event after the summer break, will take place at Silverstone from August 4-6.