Alex Lowes

Alexander Thomas "Alex" Lowes (born 14 September 1990) is an English motorcycle rider. He currently competes in the Superbike World Championship aboard a Yamaha YZF-R1 for Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team. He was the 2013 title holder of the British Superbike Championship riding a Honda CBR1000RR for Samsung Honda.^[1] He previously raced in the British Supersport Championship and the FIM Superstock 1000 Championship. He is the identical twin brother of fellow rider Sam Lowes.

Career

Born in Lincoln, England, Lowes began racing motorcycles at the age of 6 years old. In 1998 he switched to motorcross and raced there until 2001, racing in various championships around England. In 2002 he made the switch to road racing in the JRA Championship, racing a Cagiva finishing 2nd overall. In 2003 he raced in the Aprilia Superteen Championship despite only being 12 years old at the beginning of the season. Despite everybody else taking part in the championship being between the age of 13 to 19 years old, Lowes managed to finished 4th overall.

In 2004, he made the switch to the GP125 MRO Championship, he also raced in two events in the German championship, and one event in the British Championship, at the end of the year he finished runner-up in the GP125 championship, including a win in the Pembrey Circuit at Wales. Next year he switched to the British 125cc championship, racing there until 2006, he also made his debut in the 125cc World Championship racing as a wildcard in Donington Park but he did not finish the race, in 2007 he switched to the British Supersport Championship riding a Honda CBR600RR, he was the youngest racer in the Championship at the time making some good results like a 10th place in Thruxton and Croft, finishing behind various experienced racers in the championship.

Superstock: 2008–2010

For 2008, he switched to the European Superstock 600 championship riding a Kawasaki for Kawasaki Italia he had a best finish of 2nd, finishing 16th overall, in 2009 he switched to the FIM Superstock 1000 Championship riding a MV Agusta for the factory, but he struggled during the season, finishing in the points twice, and he and the team missed the final race of the season, due to MV Agusta owners Harley-Davidson putting the marque for sale. His struggles continued for 2010, when he signed with a new Suzuki team, but the team folded before the season began, after this he received an offer from Seton Tuning Yamaha team and he finished 12th in the final standings with 41 points, despite missing 3 races, he also made his British Superbike debut riding a KTM in the then new EVO class he finished 35th in the points scoring 1 point. He also made his debut as Wildcard in the World Supersport Championship riding a Yamaha,^[2] for Silverstone but he retired due to an accident in the race.

BSB: 2010–2013

In 2011, he raced for four different teams in the year, he began the year with Team WFR in the EVO class riding a Honda, after 3 rounds with a best finish of 5th, he replaced Stuart Easton in the MSS Colchester Kawasaki team he had a best finish of 7th with the team,^[3] later he replaced an injured Jonathan Rea in Ten Kate Racing for the Brno and Silverstone rounds,^[4] He had a best finish of 15th in Brno in Race 1, but he retired in the next 3 races, returning to the British Championship, he lost his ride with the MSS Colchester Kawasaki team, he finished the season with the Motorpoint Yamaha team ^[5] finishing the season with 60 points with a best finish of 5th with WFR Honda and 7th with Motorpoint Yamaha.

For 2012 he returned to race with Team WFR in the championship,^[6] he had a highly successful season finishing 4th making a double win at Silverstone Circuit and entering the championship Showdown he finished the season with 584 points.

For 2013 he joined Samsung Honda, the works team for Honda in BSB. He was highly successful, winning the championship over three-times champion Shane Byrne at the last race at Brands Hatch in October 2013. He then announced that he would be leaving BSB in 2014 to join the World Superbike Championship, resulting in Honda closing down their BSB team for 2014.^[7]

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Pts
2006	125cc	Honda	SPA	QAT	TUR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR Ret	GER	CZE	MAL	AUS	JPN	POR	VAL	NC	0

British Superbike Championship

Races by year

Year	Bike	1		2		3			4		5		6			7			8			9			10		11		12			Pos	Pts
Year	Bike	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R3	Pos	Pts
2010	KTM	BHI	BHI	THR	THR	OUL Ret	OUL 20		CAD DNS	CAD 15	MAL	MAL	KNO	KNO		SNE	SNE	SNE	BHGP	BHGP	BHGP	CAD	CAD		CRO	CRO	SIL	SIL	OUL	OUL	OUL	35th	1
2011	Honda	BHI 12	BHI 12	OUL 12	OUL 14	CRO 5	CRO 11																									20th	60
	Kawasaki								THR 7	THR Ret	KNO Ret	KNO DNS	SNE 16	SNE DNS		OUL 13	OUL C		BHGP 21	BHGP 20	BHGP 16	CAD 12	CAD Ret	CAD Ret
	Yamaha																								DON 16	DON Ret	SIL 7	SIL 12	BHGP 15	BHGP Ret	BHGP DNS
2012	Honda	BHI 17	BHI C	THR 22	THR 8	OUL DNS	OUL 10	OUL 10	SNE 5	SNE 6	KNO 9	KNO 8	OUL Ret	OUL 9	OUL 6	BHGP 7	BHGP 6		CAD 2	CAD 4		DON 6	DON 5		ASS 3	ASS 3	SIL 1	SIL 1	BHGP Ret	BHGP Ret	BHGP Ret	4th	584
2013	Honda	BHI 2	BHI 2	THR 3	THR 2	OUL 1	OUL 3		KNO Ret	KNO 4	SNE 1	SNE 2	BHGP 2	BHGP 3		OUL 3	OUL Ret	OUL 3	CAD 1	CAD 1		DON 1	DON 1		ASS 1	ASS DSQ	SIL 1	SIL 2	BHGP 2	BHGP Ret	BHGP 2	1st	643

Supersport World Championship

Races by year

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Pts
2010	Yamaha	AUS	POR	SPA	NED	ITA	RSA	USA	SMR	CZE	GBR Ret	GER	ITA	FRA	NC	0

Superbike World Championship

Races by year

Year	Make	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		14		Pos.	Pts
Year	Make	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	Pos.	Pts
2011	Honda	AUS	AUS	EUR	EUR	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	USA	USA	SMR	SMR	SPA	SPA	CZE 15	CZE Ret	GBR Ret	GBR Ret	GER	GER	ITA	ITA	FRA	FRA	POR	POR			33rd	1
2014	Suzuki	AUS Ret	AUS 13	SPA 10	SPA Ret	NED 9	NED 2	ITA 8	ITA 10	GBR 3	GBR 9	MAL Ret	MAL 9	SMR Ret	SMR 8	POR 6	POR 4	USA 8	USA DNS	SPA Ret	SPA 9	FRA Ret	FRA Ret	QAT 10	QAT 9					11th	139
2015	Suzuki	AUS 9	AUS Ret	THA 7	THA 3	SPA NC	SPA 14	NED Ret	NED 9	ITA 12	ITA 10	GBR 6	GBR 6	POR 10	POR 13	SMR 12	SMR Ret	USA 6	USA Ret	MAL 6	MAL 8	SPA 7	SPA 18	FRA 8	FRA 10	QAT Ret	QAT Ret			10th	135
2016	Yamaha	AUS Ret	AUS 14	THA 6	THA Ret	SPA 8	SPA 9	NED 8	NED 7	ITA	ITA	MAL	MAL	GBR	GBR	ITA	ITA	USA	USA	ITA	ITA	GER	GER	FRA	FRA	SPA	SPA	QAT	QAT	10th*	44*

* Season still in progress.

References

↑ Crash.net."Battle lines drawn as Kiyonari returns to BSB". 10 December 2012. Retrieved on 5 September 2013.
↑ WorldSBK.com, "Full house of wild-card entries". 23 July 2010 Retrieved on 6 September 2013.
↑ Crash.net,"Lowes gets MSS Stand-in seat". 23 May 2011. Retrieved on 5 September 2013.
↑ WorldSBK.com. "Alex Lowes to replace Rea". 22 June 2011. Retrieved on 5 September 2013.
↑ Crash.net. "Lowes chooses Motorpoint Yamaha". 2 September 2011. Retrieved on 5 September 2013.
↑ Crash.net ."WFR eyeing title with young line-up". 16 November 2011. Retrieved on 5 September 2013.
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motogp/25351314

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