        Just ahead of the Misano GP comes confirmation that Sam Lowes will continue to wear Marc VDS team colours in Moto2 in 2022. His new team-mate will be Tony Arbolino. The Englishman and the team have announced the news today, on what is the rider&rsquo;s 31st birthday. And there is no denying that the two parties have ambitious goals. Sam in seventh heaven  Sam wrote: &ldquo;Proud to continue for 2022 with this great team. Thanks to Marc for the continued support and I look forward to improving in some areas to fight for the title next year! It&rsquo;s important to love and enjoy what you do &hellip;.. I have an amazing group of people and couldn&rsquo;t be happier to continue working with every single one of them. Also will be nice sharing the garage with Tony Arbolino and I am sure he will be very competitive in his second season in Moto2. Sorry Gilles Bigot but you will have to put up with me for another season!!! Now time for Misano.&rdquo; The news comes ahead of another championship round and we are reminded that the English rider has scored three podiums, two of which race wins, as well as two fourth places and five pole positions to date this year. &nbsp;He will therefore be more determined than ever to battle for the title during what will be his ninth Moto2 season.             Visualizza questo post su Instagram  Un post condiviso da Sam Lowes (@sam.lowes22)      Translated by Heather Watson MotoGP Aragon, Dall'Igna: &ldquo;Bagnaia did an amazing job&rdquo;       

The Englishman will fight for the title with the same team next season, competing alongside Arbolino

Moto2 2022, Sam Lowes to continue with team Marc VDS

        Last weekend&rsquo;s French GP at the Le Mans circuit saw Raul Fernandez win in Moto2 ahead of his team-mate Remy Gardner. The pair now lead the way in the general standings, in front of Marco Bezzecchi and Sam Lowes. The English MarcVDS rider started the season as outright favourite, after having just missed out on last year&rsquo;s title, but his crash at Le Mans brought his second &ldquo;zero&rdquo; in five races, the rider already 23 points behind the leader. Winning is not enough  Sam made the best possible start in Qatar, winning both the Losail races from pole position. He also scored pole at Portim&atilde;o, but his race there lasted just one corner, before he returned to the podium next time out, at the more favourable track of Jerez. But the zero in France once again highlights the Englishman&rsquo;s limitation, in that he&rsquo;s extremely fast but less than clear-headed at key moments. In a Moto2 championship where consistency is key, it&rsquo;s not enough to win if you&rsquo;re not also able to settle. It&rsquo;s true that Sam was able to score the 2013 Supersport title by putting his heart and soul into it, but the same &ldquo;all or nothing&rdquo; strategy clearly doesn&rsquo;t work in the intermediate world championship class, in which (as Gardner, mature when it comes to his race management, is proving) it is perhaps more important to know when to settle rather than pushing too hard and compromising a whole weekend&rsquo;s work. The championship is long, and the Englishman of course remains a strong contender for the title. After completing positive test sessions at the Barcelona track with team-mate Augusto Fernandez, we can expect to see a battle-ready Sam Lowes back fighting at the sharp end at Mugello, though perhaps with a little more sense in the opening stages. Translated by Heather Watson MotoGP: Ducati, Jack Miller to renew at Mugello?       

The Brit collected his second zero in five races at Le Mans, only highlighting the difficulty he has in settling for a position without trying to win at all costs

Moto2, Sam Lowes: the typical "all or nothing" rider

The 2021 Moto2 season has begun and so far it&rsquo;s all about Sam Lowes, who scored the win from pole aboard the team Marc VDS Kalex. Behind him, Remy Gardner confirms that he&rsquo;s mature and, with a top team like Red Bull KTM Ajo, can fight at the front, as can Fabio Di Giannantonio, who celebrated a tearful podium after his first race with the team Gresini Kalex.  As for Marco Bezzecchi? Good, but perhaps not good enough. Meanwhile Spanish rookie Raul Fernandez made a strong start, fifth in his first race, as did Beaubier and Vietti. Disappointment for Manzi, and also Baldassarri and the MV Agusta.  Qatar report card   Sam Lowes: 10  A first-rate weekend for the Brit. In the top five right from Friday, he then set pole before dominating in the race. A crash in warm-up did nothing to deter him, Sam clearly one of the hot favourites for this year&rsquo;s title. Simply perfect.  Remy Gardner: 9  The Australian has started from where he left off in 2020, with a strong performance that finally confirms his maturity. One of few to lap with times similar to Lowes, his only mistake came in qualifying, where he failed to secure a front row start.  Fabio Di Giannantonio: 9  An incredible last lap saw Diggia beat Bezzecchi to the line and score a very emotional podium, in memory of Fausto of course. A pity about his tough qualifying session, but an excellent debut for the Italian aboard the Kalex  Raul Fernandez: 9  Having played a starring role all weekend, the Spaniard has immediately proved that he deserves his place in Moto2. Second in qualifying and fifth in his debut race. Clearly the &lsquo;chaos&rsquo; of Moto3 was not for him.  Marco Bezzecchi: 7  On paper, he looked to be the only rider able to keep pace with Lowes, but a drop in performance a few laps in saw him fighting for the third step of the podium, a battle he lost in the final stages. Good job anyway, but after the 2020 season finale, we expect a lot from &ldquo;Bez&rdquo;.  Cameron Beaubier and Celestino Vietti: 7  Two more rookies that stood out during their debut appearance in Moto2. Despite difficult qualifying sessions, both the five-time MotoAmerica champion and the Sky Racing Team rider went on to make great recoveries, closing just outside the top ten. Not bad, for their first time.  Stefano Manzi and Lorenzo Baldassarri: 4  The disappointments of the weekend. Stefano&rsquo;s move to the Sito Pons&rsquo; Kalex doesn&#39;t appear to have helped him, the rider closing 25 seconds from the front and outside the points zone. A disaster for Baldassarri, who struggled throughout his first weekend with MV Agusta, finishing with a crash. An uphill start for two great riders.  Translated by Heather Watson  MotoGP, Vi&ntilde;ales appears calmer without Rossi in the Yamaha garage 

Sam Lowes dominates to secure the win, Gardner confirms his growth and &quot;Diggia&quot; moves everyone to tears. Here is the first report card of the year for the middle class

Moto2 GP Qatar: report card and results from the opening round

This coming weekend also marks the start of the 2021 Moto2 world championship. Many riders have already proved quick in testing, and this list includes several Italians, both the more experienced and category rookies.  Lowes-Bez, the battle has already begun   Judging by how testing went, we&rsquo;re in for some great racing this season. Starting with the riders who were fighting for the 2020 title, or rather Brit Sam Lowes on the Team Marc VDS Kalex and Marco Bezzecchi, who continues with the Sky Racing Team VR46. These two riders were both very strong last season, amassing wins and podiums, and were also out front during the recent test sessions in Qatar. The pair were separated by just 0.013 of a second in fact, which probably means they&rsquo;ll both play a starring role this coming weekend.  On the attack   But several riders are ready to make things difficult for the pair, not least Remy Gardner and Jake Dixon, but also Xavi Vierge and Joe Roberts. In 2020, the race was won by Tetsuta Nagashima, now on sabbatical, but the second-placed rider was Lorenzo Baldassarri, now with Team MV Agusta Forward Racing. Will he be able to score a similar result this year? Other strong Italians are Gresini Racing&rsquo;s Niccol&ograve; Bulega, seventh overall at the Qatar test, and his team-mate Fabio Di Giannantonio who, despite still needing to adapt his style to the Kalex (after the Speed Up), knows what he wants this season.  Who are you calling rookie?   And some of the rookies arriving from Moto3 may also prove to be unexpected front runners. Several have already made their presence felt, including Raul Fernandez (the quickest in testing), current champion Albert Arenas, but also Tony Arbolino who will race for Intact GP this season, Celestino Vietti Ramus aboard the SKY Racing Team VR46 Kalex and Yari Montella with the Team Speed Up Boscoscuro. One thing is sure, and that is that we&#39;re in for some real entertainment!  Translated by Heather Watson  SBK, Go Eleven throws down the gauntlet: &ldquo;This blue bike needs to beat the red Ducatis&rdquo; 

If the Qatar test is anything to go by, these two riders will be battling it out right from the opening round. But look out for Gardner and the Moto3 rookies who also start with the bit between their teeth

Moto2, Qatar GP: Lowes and Bezzecchi relaunch the title fight

        He had a tough season and it could have had a very different outcome; instead he finished third in the overall standings. Marc VDS rider Sam Lowes spoke about his 2020 season, the wins, podiums but also a defeat: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve learned to have fun on the bike again&rdquo;. &ldquo;Overall it was a good season&rdquo;  Lowes starts by analysing his championship: &ldquo;If you&rsquo;d told me at the start of the year that I would win again and that I&rsquo;d finish third overall despite two injuries, I&rsquo;d have taken it for sure. Of course, when you get to the last race and still have chance to win and then don&rsquo;t, it&rsquo;s a little disappointing. But, overall, I&rsquo;d say it was a very good season&rdquo;. But there was more to it than that: &ldquo;This year I tried to work hard and improve in many ways. I learned a lot in the garage, I worked well with the technicians to prepare the bike. We often had three races in a row and I had to manage my physical prep. But the most important thing is that I&rsquo;ve learned to have fun on the bike again. I&rsquo;ve enjoyed myself and improved my riding. Basically, it&rsquo;s been a great year, while previous years were a struggle. I always have fun on the bike, but sometimes, as hard as you try, you can&rsquo;t have fun like I have this year&rdquo;. The injury  The problems arrived in Valencia, when he crashed during FP3 and hurt his hand: &ldquo;I crashed because I was pushing too hard in a sector of the track where I was already very fast &ndash; he explains &ndash; What could have been a little crash actually had important consequences for the end of the season because it meant I had to run the last two races with an injured hand, and just 10 more points would have given me the title. I don&rsquo;t know if the final result would have changed or not, but I&rsquo;ve learned from what happened. If I could go back, I&rsquo;d have done FP3 in a different way&rdquo;. &ldquo;In 2021 I&rsquo;ll fight for the title&rdquo;  Lowes is now fully focused on 2021 when he&rsquo;ll have another chance to fight: &ldquo;This season&rsquo;s performance and results encourage me to want to work harder and continue to improve next year. I&rsquo;m highly motivated and feel comfortable saying that next year I want to win the world championship. My goal this year was to be competitive and win races. I hadn&rsquo;t seriously considered fighting for the title until I was really in the mix. In 2021 I&rsquo;ll fight to become world champion. I think it&rsquo;s a realistic, feasible goal. Perhaps I won&rsquo;t manage it, but I think it&rsquo;s right to start the season with this mentality&rdquo;. Translated by Heather Watson MotoGP, Puig: &ldquo;Winning? Impossible without Marc Marquez&rdquo;       

The Marc VDS rider was interviewed about some of the key points of his 2020 season: &ldquo;If I could go back, I&rsquo;d do the Valencia FP3 in a different way&rdquo;

Moto2, Lowes: “I’ll fight to become world champion in 2021”

        Brit Sam Lowes surprised the world when he stoically raced in the final Portimao GP with a double fracture of the right hand, reaching the third step of the podium. A result that wasn&rsquo;t enough to secure the Moto2 title, which went to Enea Bastianini, but that underlined his ability to ride through the pain barrier. A few days since that final race, Sam Lowes talks about the Portuguese GP. &ldquo;During the race things weren&rsquo;t too bad because I had painkillers and the adrenaline but once I crossed the line it was really painful&rdquo;, he tells website LincolnshireLive.com. &ldquo;I just lacked a little strength in the last five or six laps. If it had been a normal race, it would have been difficult, but with the adrenaline, the championship, with it being the last round, all that got me through&rdquo;, says Lowes, the first to be surprised by his result. &ldquo;I was surprised to get through and do a good race. Podiums in Grand Prix are difficult to get anyway. I said to my guys before the race that I had no idea what pace I could do, I was just going to do the race and see.&rdquo; Fast and consistent  When asked about his season, Sam Lowes appears quite pleased. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a good year. I&rsquo;ve been lucky in some ways and unlucky in others. I&rsquo;m really happy to be back at the front. After coming back from MotoGP, it didn&rsquo;t go how I thought it would go. (Lowes returned to Moto2 in 2018 after a year in the reigning class with Aprilia). &ldquo;This year, things have changed a lot and I&rsquo;ve changed my attitude with working with such a good team. And I&rsquo;ve always been fast. Even in the past few years, I&rsquo;ve been fast at certain points, I&rsquo;ve just not put it together for the full year. I&rsquo;ve massively gained in confidence. I&rsquo;ve put my efforts into the right things rather than worrying about things I can&rsquo;t control&rdquo;, explains Lowes. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve changed my riding style a bit, which I had to do for this Triumph engine. I feel positive and like I can improve again this winter.&rdquo; MotoGP goal  And while this year's aim was to be competitive after a couple of tough seasons, after finishing third overall Lowes is now aiming for the Moto2 title. &ldquo;Now I can openly say that next year I want to fight for the championship. I think that&rsquo;s realistic. That&rsquo;s the focus. I&rsquo;ve been to MotoGP and done one year, not a successful one. My first goal is to win the Moto2 championship. If I do that, then I deserve a good ride in MotoGP. &ldquo;If I could go there with a good team, on a good bike, then I would do it. I wouldn&rsquo;t go back there with Aprilia for example&rdquo;, concludes Sam Lowes who, during his GP season with the Italian manufacturer, scored just 5 points, a thirteenth-place finish his best result. Translated by Heather Watson MotoGP, Rossi: &ldquo;Welkom 2004, my masterpiece&rdquo;       

&ldquo;Having come back from MotoGP, which didn&rsquo;t go as I expected, this year&rsquo;s been positive. Now I&rsquo;m aiming to win the Moto2 championship&rdquo;, states Sam Lowes

Sam Lowes: “I want MotoGP, but not with Aprilia”

The last dance is about to play out in Moto2, the category leader holding more points (194 points Bastianini) than the frontrunner in both MotoGP (174 points Mir) and Moto3 (170 points Arenas).  Of the four fighting for the title - Bastianini, Lowes, Marini and Bezzecchi &ndash; only the Brit has seen Portimao before (2013, when he won the Supersport race) but he is the least physically fit after a crash at Valencia left him with a swollen hand and only a fourteenth-place finish.  Let&rsquo;s look at the possible winning combinations for the Moto2 Fantastic 4.  Bastianini: a world-class &lsquo;Bestia&rsquo;     Enea has more than one hand already on his first title, after having come so close to the Moto3 trophy in recent years. After an apprenticeship Moto2 season in 2019, Bestia set out with the aim of fighting for the title this season, and that&rsquo;s exactly what he&rsquo;s done, now with a good chance of moving up to MotoGP as Moto2 champion.  Bestia is champion if&hellip;  He finishes top four  He finishes 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th and Lowes doesn&rsquo;t win  He finishes 9th, and Lowes and Marini don&rsquo;t win  He finishes 10th, 11th, 12th or 13th, Lowes does no better than 3rd and Marini doesn&rsquo;t win  He finishes 14th or worse, Lowes doesn&rsquo;t reach the podium, Marini does no better than 3rd and Bezzecchi doesn&rsquo;t win  Lowes: world-class after some unlucky years   &nbsp;  Alex&rsquo;s twin brother started the season with physical problems and a few crashes too many but he rejoined the title fight during the Le Mans, Aragon 1 and Aragon 2 races, benefitting from problems suffered by the Italians (Marini and Bezzecchi especially). His mistake at Valencia 1 could have been his undoing but he&rsquo;s not lost heart and following the FP3 crash at Valencia 2, he gritted his teeth to cross the line 14th.  Sam is champion if&hellip;  He wins and Bastianini does no better than 5th  He finishes 2nd, Bastianini does no better than 10th and Marini doesn&rsquo;t win  He finishes 3rd, Bastianini does no better than 14th, and Marini and Bezzecchi don&rsquo;t win  Marini: back on the straight and narrow     The third title contender is &lsquo;Maro&rsquo;. At a certain point of the season, he almost looked like a shoo-in for the title considering the difficulties faced by Bastianini and Bezzecchi but a bad accident in free practice at Le Mans has seen Luca on the defensive in the last four races. Winning a championship would mean so much to Luca, also in light of his move up to MotoGP next year.  Maro is champion if&hellip;  He wins and Bastianini does no better than 9th  He finishes 2nd, Bastianini does no better than 14th, Lowes and Bezzecchi don&rsquo;t win  Bezzecchi: the underdog     Last but not least is the other Sky Racing Team VR46 rider, Marco Bezzecchi. Despite some highs and lows this season, &lsquo;Bez&rsquo; has scored two important wins (Stiria and Valencia 1). Marco will need to give it his all come Sunday at Portimao and see what the others do, also because both he and Lowes will stay in Moto2 while Marini and Bastianini will move to MotoGP next year.  Bez is champion if&hellip;  He wins, Bastianini does no better than 14th and Lowes does no better than 3rd  Translated by Heather Watson  Moto3, Portuguese GP: here&rsquo;s how Arenas, Ogura and Arbolino can score the title 

The intermediate class arrives in Portimao with four riders within 23 points of each other. Let&rsquo;s see how D&rsquo;Artagnan Bastianini and the other Three Muskateers can win the title

Moto2, a four-way battle in Portugal: here are the combinations for title glory

Following the Valencia GP, the Moto2 title fight is still wide open, with four riders in with a mathematical chance of being crowned champion, namely Enea Bastianini, Marco Bezzecchi, Luca Marini and Sam Lowes. The British rider, competing for the MarcVDS team, lies 14 points behind leader Bastianini and finished fourteenth at the latest round, despite wrist problems resulting from a crash during FP3. Here we look at the pros and cons of the talented Lincoln native.  Pros: speed and experience   One point in the 30-year old Brit&rsquo;s favour is the experience he has compared to his closest rivals. Sam is the only one of the four to have already won a world title, having triumphed in the 2013 Supersport championship aboard the Yamaha of team Yakhnich. He has also won at the very Portuguese track that will host the season finale, again in 2013, and knows the circuit better than the others.    Another aspect that makes Lowes a tough opponent is his speed. When he&rsquo;s on form, the Brit is able to set blistering pace, as he demonstrated over the two Aragon race weekends.  Cons: physical problems   For every pro, there&rsquo;s a con. And although Sam is extremely fast, it&rsquo;s unlikely he&rsquo;ll be in top shape at Portimao following the injury to his right hand sustained at Valencia. The Portuguese track runs in a clockwise direction and the undulating surface will clearly put the Brit to the test. He&rsquo;ll need to grit his teeth if he wants to finish ahead of his closest rivals.  On paper, it looks almost impossible for the MarcVDS rider. But there&rsquo;s no doubt that we&rsquo;re in for a real battle, during what promises to be an unmissable season finale.  Translated by Heather Watson  Moto2, who will win? The pros and cons of Enea Bastianini 

The 2020 Moto2 world champion will be decided at Portimao, the battle coming down to Bastianini, Marini, Bezzecchi and Lowes. Here are some of the Brit&#39;s strengths and weaknesses&hellip;

Moto2, who will win? The pros and cons of Sam Lowes

Sam Lowes&rsquo; bad accident during free practice 3 at Valencia looked as if it had left him with a fractured wrist. But a visit to the medical centre ruled out any such injury.  Still in the mix for the Moto2 title, along with Enea Bastianini, Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi, the Brit therefore took to the track yesterday, trying to give it his all during the race.  The social media post   From eighteenth on the grid, the Marc VDS rider was unable to do more than a fourteenth-place finish. But he had a more than valid reason&hellip; Today he revealed the hand that powered his Kalex across the line only 24 hours ago, a&nbsp;&lsquo;monstrous&rsquo; hand and wrist that show the obvious signs of yesterday&rsquo;s effort.  &quot;Nobody likes Mondays&quot; &ndash; commented Sam with irony, alongside a photo of his right hand immersed in ice. A visibly swollen hand and wrist that don&rsquo;t auger well ahead of the season finale at Portimao, a race that will decide the Moto2 champion.     &nbsp;   &nbsp;  &nbsp;    &nbsp;     Visualizza questo post su Instagram   Un post condiviso da Sam Lowes (@sam.lowes22)      Will he be in shape for Sunday?   Will Lowes be able to recover with the help of some cryotherapy in time for the weekend? The battle with championship leader Enea Bastianini is still wide open, considering the 14 points that separate the pair. But he will also need to look out for Marini and Bezzecchi, hot on his heels in the general standings.  Translated by Heather Watson  Moto2, Marco Bezzecchi: a Street Triple RS for a season to remember 

The Brit competed yesterday despite Saturday&rsquo;s accident, but this morning he was faced with a very swollen hand and wrist&hellip;. Will he be fit to fight Bastianini for the title this Sunday?

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