Sam Lowes

Samuel Deane "Sam" Lowes^[1] (born 14 September 1990) is an British motorcycle racer from Lincoln, Lincolnshire currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship for Aprilia. He won the Supersport World Championship 2013 riding a Yamaha YZF-R6^[2] for Russian team Yakhnich Motorsport in the championship, as well as the 2010 British Supersport champion riding a Honda CBR600RR.

During his championship year in the British championship he scored five wins, including three consecutive wins and three pole positions, winning at Brands Hatch, Knockhill, Cadwell Park, Croft and Silverstone, along with five podium finishes. Afterward he moved to the Supersport World Championship full-time in 2011 signing for the Parkalgar Honda team.^[3] In his first complete year he scored six podiums, finishing 6th overall with 129 points. In 2012, he moved to Bogdanka PTR Honda,^[4] a sister team of the Parkalgar Honda, and earned two wins at the Donington Park and Aragón rounds. In 2013 he moved to Yakhnich Motorsport^[5] riding a semi-works Yamaha. He is the twin brother of World Superbike rider Alex Lowes.

Lowes at the Nürburgring in 2013

Lowes claimed the World Supersport championship in 2013 with one round remaining at Magny-Cours, finishing 2nd in the race.^[6] He was scheduled to race in the World Superbike Championship in 2014 with Yakhnich, however, these plans fell through as the team decided to jump to the championship without Yamaha. Instead, he opted to join the Moto2 World Championship riding with the Speed Up team,^[7] signing a two-year deal with the team.

For 2016 onwards, Lowes signed a three-year contract backed by Aprilia, enabling him to continue in Moto2 for 2016 with the Gresini team and a change from Speed Up to Kalex chassis. As well as this, Lowes has the added benefit of being Aprilia's official MotoGP test rider, with an anticipated move to compete for Aprilia in the premier MotoGP class for the 2017 and 2018 seasons.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Career statistics

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

British Supersport Championship

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Pts
2009	Honda	BHI 10	OUL Ret	DON 13	THR 19	SNE 13	KNO 10	MAL 9	BHGP 7	CAD 6	CRO DSQ	SIL	OUL 10	14th	50
2010	Honda	BHI 1	THR Ret	OUL 2	CAD 3	MAL 2	KNO 1	SNE 2	BHGP 2	CAD 1	CRO 1	SIL 1	OUL 8	1st	229

Supersport World Championship

Races by year

Year	Motorcycle	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Pts
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

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Number	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2014	Moto2	Speed Up	Speed Up	22	18	0	0	0	0	69	13th
2015	Moto2	Speed Up	Speed Up	22	18	1	5	3	1	186	4th
2016	Moto2	Kalex	Federal Oil Gresini Moto2	22	18	2	6	5	2	175	5th
Total					54	3	11	8	3	430

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts	WChmp
Moto2	2014–2016	2014 Qatar	2015 United States	2015 United States	54	3	11	8	3	430	0
Total	2014–Present				54	3	11	8	3	430	0

Races by year

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos.	Pts
2014	Moto2	Speed Up	QAT 6	AME 16	ARG 8	SPA Ret	FRA 9	ITA 8	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GER 20	IND 24	CZE Ret	GBR 7	RSM 18	ARA 9	JPN Ret	AUS 5	MAL Ret	VAL 7	13th	69
2015	Moto2	Speed Up	QAT Ret	AME 1	ARG 3	SPA 20	FRA 4	ITA 4	CAT 4	NED 3	GER 5	IND Ret	CZE 5	GBR 6	RSM Ret	ARA 3	JPN 8	AUS 2	MAL 13	VAL 5	4th	186
2016	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 9	ARG 2	AME 2	SPA 1	FRA 6	ITA 3	CAT 6	NED 4	GER Ret	AUT Ret	CZE 3	GBR 21	RSM Ret	ARA 1	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	VAL 4	5th	175

References

↑ "Sam Lowes". Genes Reunited. Brightsolid. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
↑ "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
↑ Watson, Chris (22 September 2015). "Derby-based Sam Lowes to have one more crack at Moto2 crown before joining MotoGP". Derby Telegraph. Local World. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
↑ "Lowes joins Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 for 2016". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
↑ "Bradl & Bautista remain with Aprilia for 2016". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Aprilia confirm Stefan Bradl and Alvaro Bautista as their line up for 2016, with Sam Lowes as test rider before making the step up in 2017.

External links

Supersport World Champions

World Series	1997: Paolo Casoli 1998: Fabrizio Pirovano

World Championship	1999: Stéphane Chambon 2000: Jörg Teuchert 2001: Andrew Pitt 2002: Fabien Foret 2003: Chris Vermeulen 2004: Karl Muggeridge 2005–2006: Sébastien Charpentier 2007: Kenan Sofuoğlu 2008: Andrew Pitt 2009: Cal Crutchlow 2010: Kenan Sofuoğlu 2011: Chaz Davies 2012: Kenan Sofuoğlu 2013: Sam Lowes 2014: Michael van der Mark 2015: Kenan Sofuoğlu

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