
Rea and Lowes are now in their third season as teammates at Kawasaki, and while the latter's spell with the Japanese manufacturer started well with a win at Phillip Island in 2020, since then he hasn't been a match for Rea.
While Rea won his sixth WSBK title in 2020 and finished a close runner-up to Toprak Razgatlioglu last year, Lowes slipped from an early lead to sixth in 2020 and concluded an injury-ridden '21 campaign eighth.