Sam Lowes’ debut WorldSBK season was marred by i꧟njury, but the British rider is hopeful of improvements in 2025.

Lowes scored a best result of seventh last season, before a crash in the Superpole Race at the Czech Round ꩵin Most saw him ruled out of the nexಌt four races; and another crash later in the season at Aragon saw him miss all three races at the Spanish venue.

“When you’re𝕴 riding injured and things aren’t going good it’s a hard moment,” Lowes said at the Marc VDS 2025 team launch.

“Every rider has the winter, but I feel like it’s been a long time sಞince I’ve been feeling good on the bike, so I definitely needed the winter to get healthy.

“I’m looking forward to getting going and I’m feeling in a better place than last year. I expect from this season to fight as cl🧜ose to the front as I can, obviously top indepeജndent.

“It꧅ seems like a big job considering last year, the end wa𒁏s difficult, but we had some good rides.”

He added: “The way you have to get the maximum from Superbike☂s especially Ducati, which everyone knows is obviously the best bike, is just to stop the bike better and use the bi﷽ke’s strong points on the exit.”

Lowes said that he needs to continue imp𒅌roving his adaptation to the production-based Ducati Panigale V4 R after racing prototype bikes for nine years before his move to 🐬WorldSBK last year.

“Honestly, it’s bigไger than I thought,” Lowes said of the difference between the Moto2 bike he rode until 2023 and the superbike he rode last year.

“I think now 🎃I’ve managed to understand it a lot more and change my way of thinking and training over the winter.

“The adaptation is going well but I think it needs to go a bit more, and I think when we get into the season with a few different people around me pushing me in a little bit of a different way we c🔥an keep ไgoing.”