Sam Lowes
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 14, 1990 Lincoln, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Speed Up | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sam Lowes (born 14 September 1990) is an English motorcycle racer from Lincoln, Lincolnshire currently competing in the Supersport World Championship riding a Yamaha YZF-R6[1] for Russian team Yakhnich Motorsport in the championship, he was the 2010 British Supersport champion riding a Honda CBR600RR, during his championship year in the British championship he scored 5 wins, including three consecutive wins and three pole positions, he won in Brands Hatch, Knockhill, Cadwell Park, Croft and Silverstone and other 5 podium finishes, after this championship year he moved to the Supersport World Championship in 2011 signing for the Parkalgar Honda team,[2] in his debut year he scored 6 podiums finishes, finishing 6th with 129 points, in 2012 he moved to the Bogdanka PTR Honda,[3] a sister team of the Parkalgar team he was successful in this year scoring 2 wins in Donington Park and Aragón rounds and scoring three podium finishes finishing 3rd in the year, and 2013 he decided to move to Yakhnich Motorsport[4] riding a semi-works Yamaha, he has scored 6 wins and 9 pole positions and he is leading the championship with 250 points. He is the twin brother of British Superbike rider Alex Lowes.
He claimed the World Supersport championship with one round remaining in Magny-Cours, finishing 2nd[5] He was scheluded to race in the World Superbike Championship in 2014 with Yakhnich, however, these plans fell out as the team decided to jump to the championship without Yamaha, after this he opted to join the Moto2 World Championship riding with the Speed Up team[6] He signed a deal of two years with the team.
Career statistics
Supersport World Championship
| Yr | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos | Pts |
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| 2009 | Honda | AUS |
QAT |
SPA |
NED |
ITA |
RSA |
USA |
SMR |
GBR |
CZE 18 |
GER 16 |
ITA Ret |
FRA Ret |
POR Ret |
NC | 0 |
| 2010 | Honda | AUS |
POR |
SPA |
NED |
ITA |
RSA |
USA |
SMR |
CZE |
GBR 10 |
GER |
ITA |
FRA |
25th | 6 | |
| 2011 | Honda | AUS 3 |
EUR Ret |
NED Ret |
ITA 5 |
SMR 3 |
SPA 2 |
CZE 6 |
GBR Ret |
GER 3 |
ITA 2 |
FRA 2 |
POR Ret |
6th | 129 | ||
| 2012 | Honda | AUS 5 |
ITA 2 |
NED Ret |
ITA 2 |
EUR 1 |
SMR 18 |
SPA 1 |
CZE 4 |
GBR 2 |
RUS 12 |
GER 13 |
POR 5 |
FRA 2 |
3rd | 172 | |
| 2013 | Yamaha | AUS 2 |
SPA Ret |
NED 1 |
ITA 1 |
GBR 1 |
POR 1 |
ITA 2 |
RUS C |
GBR 2 |
GER 1 |
TUR 2 |
FRA 2 |
SPA 1 |
1st | 250 |
References
- ↑ "Super Sam storms to fourth victory". Derby Telegraph. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ↑ Crash.net."Parkalgar Honda signs Lowes for 2011". 3 October 2010. Retrieved on 13 October 2013
- ↑ Crash.net."Buckmaster defends 2012 line-up".8 February 2012. Retrieved on 13 October 2013
- ↑ motomatters.com."Sam Lowes to race a R6 in WSS With Yakhnich". 3 November 2012. Retrieved on 13 October 2013
- ↑ WorldSBK.com. "Sofuoglu wins as Lowes is the new World Supersport Champion". 6 October 2013. Retrieved on 13 October 2013
- ↑ MotoGP.com."Sam Lowes to join Moto2 with Speed Up". 11 October 2013. Retrieved on 13 October 2013
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