team and must’ve been hoping that
he’d hit the ground running in 2020
because no one likes to be shown up by
their team mates.
Round 1 of World Superbikes 2020
was what we’d been waiting for. Edge
of the seat, nail biting racing between
riders who had to extract everything
they had to offer from themselves and
their bikes.
And this was all before Covid-19 threw
a huge viral spanner in the works. You’ve
seen the results and hopefully you’ve
seen the races (if not, hunt them down
and watch them with that time on your
50 KIWI RIDER
hands), so you’ll know that Lowes, Razgat,
Rea, Redding are capable of winning
races and neither Rea or any other rider
is likely to walk away with the series.
Then the lights went out. The question
now is whether there will even be a
complete series this year given that
we’re probably looking at a six month
shutdown. Of course, in the context
of Covid-19 a race bike series isn’t that
important and we’ll just have to be
patient and see what happens over the
next few months. Hopefully when things
start to roll again, the series will pick up
right where it left off at Phillip Island.