Sam Lowes: Hot Australian WorldSBK weather is “good condition” for Ducati
Sam Lowes reckons tꦆhe hot conditions expected at this weekend’s Australi💯an WorldSBK round suits the Ducati Panigale V4 R.

This weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike round in Australia is set to see temperatures exceed 30 Celsius at times, something that, ac🔯cording to Sam Lowes, suits the Ducati package.
The high temperatures expected for Saturday com🅠bined w꧑ith forecast strong winds have led to an alert for extreme fire dangers in southeastern Australia.
In Phillip Island, temperatures are expected to reach 32 Celsius on Saturday, which, from a racing perspectivﷺe, means less grip from the track surface.
Hot weather at Australian WorldSBK
Lowes said that his Marc VDS team had been able to find a direction with the Ducati Panigale V4 R in Friday’s FP2 session that helped with the warmer conditions compareജd to FP1 and the test earlier this week𝓡, and so they plan on heading further in that direction for the hotter temperatures expected for Superpole and Race 1.
“It was a good day for us, we managed to make some good steps forward from 🔜th♏e test, which was positive,” Lowes told WorldSBK.com.
“I think in the a🐼fternoon, when the track got a bit hotter it felt a bit greasy to start with, but after we figured it out a bit and obv🌺iously it looks like for the Ducati it was good conditions – we were all quite strong.
“Tomorrow, the forecast looks a bit more warm, a bit more of❀ a step on today. We think we have a good direction, and we’ve now fixed the tyre choice for the race; for qualifying it’s obviously different.
“We’ll try ♐and make a good job of that and start near the front.”
Expanding on the hotter weather forecast for Saturday, Lowes said: “It🔴’s the same for everybody, the track will be slower, we have the pit stop so even if th🌠e front starts to move around we can change it halfway through.
“Sure,🌃 it will be difficul♊t, it will be greasy, will be complicated, I think, so the times will probably be a little bit off, but normally when we think that it doesn’t happen.
Lowes added that the Ducati is suited to the hot conditions perhaps m🦩ore than some of the other bikes.
“I 🍸think also when the temperature goes up it suits our bike a little bit; we can manage🐷 to keep the momentum – also with the engine and the electronics.
“The race is always different, I think the guys on the Ducatis, as well as it being a good bike, are the ones – [Andr﷽ea] Iannone, [Nicolo] Bulega, [Alvaro Bautista] – that suit this track.
“So, I think t♊here are many reasons for it, but I think the bike works so it’s nice to be on one of them.
“We need a bit, need a little bit in sector four, need to try and figure that out tonight, chඣeck a little bit and see if we can improve a couple of tenths there and I think then we’ll be in the mix.”

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