Alex Lowes searching for front end improvements at WorldSBK Portimao test

Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani are🐼 headed to Portimao for the first in-season 🌟WorldSBK test of 2025.

Alex Lowes, 2025 Australian WorldSBK, pre-season grid shot. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Alex Lowes, 2025 Australian WorldSBK, pre-season grid shot. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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This weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike test in Portimao offers opportunities for those in attendance to confirm things left over not only from the first round of the 2025 season in Australia, but also from t𒁃he winter tests, which were hit by bad weather.

For Bimota’s Alex Lowes, this means a focus on fr🐠ont end confidence, which he is hopeful the layout of the circuit at Portimao will allow him to work on.

“Portimao is a different challenge to Phillip Island,” Lowes said ahead of the test. “I am hoping to imp🏅rove my front end confidence on the bikไe to be more aggressive under braking. That should allow me to race with the other bikes a bit more easily.

“This is my▨ main focus for this Portimao test, and to enjoy being back with my ‘Team 22’ colleague💫s.”

For Axel Bassani, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史🍰:who recently passed his road licence test, the Portimao test will 🧸be a chance to improve on some of the areas that Phillip Island exposed as the bike’s weak poin🐠ts.

“It will be a really important test be𒐪cause soon after we will have a race week♎end there,” he said.

“We have to try to find our best race setup. For sure, that will not be easy as Portimao is a very diꦓfficult track, but we have already had one day of testing there and we will not be starting this next test from zero.

“This💫 is very important because all tಌhe tracks will be new for us when we go to race.

“W🦩e will have some new things to try but not a lot of new items. We have to improve in a lot of points, especiall🍨y on the rear for me.

“After Phillip Island we realised that the base is not bad because we were rea🍬lly near to the first positions.

“We know that one of our issues is 🃏the speed on the straight, so we have to focus a lot where ♏we can improve and not think too much about that. We will try in some more areas to be near to the first riders.”

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