242534011112233021: no, it's not the number of grains of sand surrounding the Losail circuit but the places obtained by Sam Lowes in the 18 official IRTA test sessions since the start of the season.
If we except the sole performance of Axel Pons in Jerez, the 25-year-old British driver therefore emerges as the big winner of this 2016 pre-season, with a 5th place as his worst result.
It is undeniable that the transition from Speed Up to Kalex therefore seems to be successful at #22, and that it will be a more than serious candidate for victory next Sunday, facing opposition a priori led by Tom Luthi and Jonas Folger, but to which we will obviously add Alex Rins, Takaaki Nakagami and Johann Zarco, even if the latter did not dominate these IRTA tests at all.
Sam Lowes : “I’m really happy because it’s really been another good day! In fact, we tried more things on the bike today than any other day. So it was really interesting, because we had to find a good direction and I think we've already done a lot of the work. We're ready and I'm feeling happy, so I'm looking forward to the race weekend because it's definitely going to be a good race! We will continue to work during the sessions and qualifiers, and only then will we see how it goes!”
