WSBK’s only Kawasaki rider makes his demand for the bike clear
Garrett Gerloff reacts to൩ first test on a Kawasaki

Garrett Gerloff will be the only Kawa🧜saki on track in 2025 in the World Superbike Championship.
After his first two seasons in the series on a BMW, Gerloff is adapting at t🧜his week’s Jerez test.
He has made his main demand very clear.
“Not bad,” Gerloff summarised Day 1 at Jerez, “you guys can hea꧋r but the wind was awful all day. It made it difficult to get a solid answer f𝐆or the set-up changes that we’d made.
“It was nice ♈to be on a bi🌊ke again after a long winter.
“One of the biggest things that I want is an abilit༺y to push more on the front, and a bit more connection.
“It’s not bad now. We had things to t🍌ry, different forks. They were pretty sweet.
“It was not comple🅘tely conclusive. But t𒁃he standard board with a different internal was the best one that I tried.
“It improved how I felt with the wind.
“B𓄧rembo had some stuff that wꦗe weren’t able to try, but it looks nice…”
Gerloff reacted to his change of teams: ﷽“I 🌱miss my Bonovo guys a lot! It was a fun team, we had a blast!
“These guys are also fun, professional, the wor🌳k is really good. The s🃏upport I feel from Kawasaki is nice.
“Everybody is working grea☂t and I feel good on the bike.
“We haven’t changed much from how Alex Lowes had the bike last 🌠year.
“I am trying to change my riding to adapt to the bike, to discover some things in my style that I co🐈uld improve.
“It’s nice not to change much, and to focus o🥂n myself and my ridi🎃ng.”
Ge🔜rloff set himself a target for 2025: “We all want to do well.
“To be the only Kawasak𝄹i on the grid is a൲ pressure but it’s nice.
“I want to bring the green bike close to the f🍸ront. We can fight for the top five. It will be tough with all the Ducatis.
“But we have something in our back pocket…”

James was a꧙ sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sp⛄orts, to football, to F1.