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In the latter stages of the 2021 championship, the BMW WorldSBK project, in its entirety, was looking up. Having signed the obvious race winning talent of Michael van der Mark to race alongside 2013 World Champion Tom Sykes, the official team scored five podiums all in, including a wet race win for VDM and the morale booster of a Superpole win for Sykes at Catalunya.
The way Alvaro Bautista went away from the chasing pack in both the Superpole and full distance Sunday races at Motorland Aragon had shades of his rookie season in 2019, when he came, saw and conquered like Caesar riding a lighting bolt.
Despite breaking a rib in a testing crash at Barcelona’s Montmelo circuit recently HRC’s Xavi Vierge was seventh, ninth and eighth in his first three WorldSBK races at Motorland.
There was a lot of work done by Kawasaki’s factory WorldSBK team in the winter, especially with suspension partners Showa.
It is always theoretically possible for a factory Ducati rider like Michael Rinaldi to get on a podium in WorldSBK. The man himself, the 2017 Stock 1000 Champion for Ducati, has already scored four race wins in WorldSBK, and a total of ten podiums.
All winter long Alex Lowes and his WorldSBK crew have been concentrating on race setup for the start of the 2022 season - that has included working with the new forks that Showa brought to the works Kawasaki squad this year.
Loris Baz finished the second Aragon WorldSBK outing exactly where he thought possible after trying to work out why the BMWs were all slower this weekend at Aragon than in testing earlier in the week.
MotoGP exile Iker Lecuona led HRC to a strong season start at WorldSBK Aragon, picking up fifth place in the championship standings in his debut race weekend.