Alex Lowes says he and his brother, Sam Lowes, have shared goal for the 2026 WorldSBK season that they “didn’t achieve” in 2025.

The Lowes brothers have both lined up on the World Superbike grid since the Marc VDS Ducati team signed Sam Lowes for the 2024 season, meaning 2026 will be their third competing against each other.

Sam Lowes’ late move to WorldSBK, aged 33 at the start of the 2024 season, came after a long career in Moto2 that began in 2014, when Alex Lowes first moved to World Superbike from BSB.

Their careers have thus been very different, with Alex Lowes having much more experience in WorldSBK, but both proved to be podium contenders in 2025.

Marc VDS’s Sam Lowes took five rostrum finishes, including his first in World Superbike at Assen after clinching his first pole position in the class on Saturday. Bimota’s Alex Lowes, meanwhile, scored four podiums, three of which came at the French Round in Magny-Cours, in the KB998’s first season of racing.

Despite nine podiums between them, though, they never stood on the podium together in 2025, and it is this that Alex Lowes says is the siblings’ objective for 2026.

“After Christmas, get focused on making next year the best one year, which will not be easy but I’m feeling like I’m riding the best I’ve ridden,” Alex Lowes told WorldSBK.com at the Jerez test on 26–27 November. I’m enjoying it, understanding the bike well, the team’s doing a great job, so I can be quite optimistic going into next year. 

“My brother’s [Sam Lowes] going to be really fast as well, so he’s going to be a pain in my ass, let’s say. 

“We’re going to work hard together this winter so we’re both fighting at the front together.

“Our target – which we didn’t achieve this year – is to be on the podium together, and after that let’s see what we can do.”