{"id":167327,"date":"2025-09-25T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167327\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:17:07","slug":"garrett-gerloff-optimistic-for-aragon-worldsbk-after-productive-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167327\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Gerloff \u201coptimistic\u201d for Aragon WorldSBK after \u201cproductive tests\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A year on from his most recent podium in WorldSBK, Garrett Gerloff returns to Aragon hoping to repeat the feat in 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gerloff was in the top-five in all three races aboard the Bonovo BMW at Aragon last year, including a Race 1 podium in third place.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Having moved to Kawasaki in the winter, Gerloff has not scored a podium all season and has been in the top-six only once (Donington Race 2).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, his results were generally improving before the summer break, taking five top-10 finishes in succession before sitting out the Sunday races in Balaton with a back injury from the lap one crash on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> after the break at Magny-Cours saw Gerloff join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995303\/andrea-locatelli\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Locatelli<\/a> on the back row for all three races after they both crashed in Superpole. While Locatelli was able to get up to fifth in Race 1, and into the top-10 in ninth in Race 2, Gerloff crashed after getting into the top-10 on Saturday before going 14-11 in Sunday\u2019s two races.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The return to MotorLand, then, perhaps comes at a good time for Gerloff, who now needs to rediscover the form he had before the Hungarian Round.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI really like the MotorLand Aragon and scored two fifth places and a third-place finish last season,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995206\/garrett-gerloff\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Gerloff<\/a> said ahead of the Aragon Round. \u201cA fantastic weekend that I\u2019d love to repeat again this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe completed some very productive tests here about a month ago and will try to make use of all that hard work to score good race results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m optimistic and very determined to achieve the kind of results that the team and I deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year on from his most recent podium in WorldSBK, Garrett Gerloff returns to Aragon hoping to repeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,109804,109805,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-garrett-gerloff","11":"tag-kawasaki-worldsbk-team","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}