{"id":683267,"date":"2026-05-20T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683267\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:57:13","slug":"garrett-gerloff-has-nothing-against-rising-worldsbk-star-after-intense-most-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683267\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Gerloff has \u201cnothing against\u201d rising WorldSBK star after intense Most battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best battles of the entire Czech WorldSBK<\/a> involved Kawasaki\u2019s sole rider in the class, and an unexpected rising star in the shape of Alberto Surra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The intense fight, which also highlighted the different strengths of the Kawasaki ZX-10RR and Ducati Panigale V4 R, took place in Race 2 as Garrett Gerloff<\/a> eventually came out on top.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t before the American was repassed by Surra on several occasions, with the Italian very feisty in his defence.<\/p>\n

\"Garrett <\/p>\n

Garrett Gerloff, Czech WorldSBK 2026.<\/p>\n

\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n

Race 2 was not the first time that Surra raced his opponents hard, as he was also part of an intense fight with Sam Lowes during Race 1 which ultimately led to contact between both riders and a crash for Lowes.<\/p>\n

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But there was no such drama for Surra or Gerloff in Race 2, as both riders finished the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was clear early on in the race that Gerloff was the faster rider, however, his strongest areas of the track were immediately followed by sections of tarmac where the Ducati worked very well, allowing Surra to fight back each time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But after multiple attempts, Gerloff finally made his move stick at turn 20. Speaking after the race, Gerloff told WorldSBK.com: \u201cI\u2019m glad you guys liked it; I was getting frustrated!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got nothing against him, it was a good and clean race, but I was like, \u2018Just let me do a couple of laps in front of you!\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big slide at turn four was the one pass where I was a bit [like], \u2018come on man!\u2019. In the last moment, he came and was right there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had no space and had to pick the bike up. I was just happy I crossed the line in front of the group. I hope Manuel\u2019s happy! It\u2019s good for the sponsors and stuff, but we\u2019re still pretty far behind from the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be closer to the front. I felt really good and that I had more pace than Surra, but I couldn\u2019t make the pass stick or stay in front of him, he just passed me back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Alberto <\/p>\n

Alberto Surra, Czech WorldSBK 2026.<\/p>\n

\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n

Surra also spoke about the battle and where the Kawasaki was stronger, saying: \u201cIt was a very good race for me, and I\u2019m really happy for the whole weekend. It was a very strong battle with Garrett.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kawasaki has very good grip but in Race 2, I had a different tyre; the new one. The Ducati has very good electronics and the grip is good with used tyres, but the electronics are very sensitive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn this situation, I was very focused on the race. I didn\u2019t overthink too much. Garrett is a very good rider and in the last laps, he closed the corners very well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy target and the team\u2019s was top ten or 15. It\u2019s very difficult in WorldSBK. All riders are very fast. My target is top ten and it\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best battles of the entire Czech WorldSBK involved Kawasaki\u2019s sole rider in the class, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[325727,64,63,324706,586,17197,109804,144556,34827,806,805,803,804,56672,85,113816],"class_list":["post-683267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alberto-surra","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-autodrom-most-circuit","tag-czech-republic","tag-ducati","tag-garrett-gerloff","tag-kawasaki","tag-most","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-prague","tag-sports","tag-world-superbikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683267","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=683267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}