WSBK’s only Kawasaki rider makes his demand for the bike clear

Garrett Gerloff reacts to൩ first test on a Kawasaki

Garrett Gerloff
Garrett Gerloff

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…”

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