Remy Gardner says his expectations for 2025 haven’t modified “a lot” after ending on the rostrum in Race 2 on the third spherical of the World Superbike season at Assen.
The GRT Yamaha rider was working in fourth place within the closing phases of Race 2 at Assen, simply behind Alvaro Bautista within the closing podium place, however benefitted from a penultimate-lap technical problem for Nicolo Bulega that noticed the Italian retire from the lead.
Gardner was then promoted to 3rd place, and held on to attain his first rostrum of the 2025 season, and Yamaha’s fourth.
The circumstances, although, meant that he was not drawing any conclusions from the consequence about what it would imply for the results of the season.
“Not a lot,” Gardner mentioned when requested by WorldSBK.com if his expectations for the remainder of the season are modified by the rostrum end.
“Hopefully we will carry this confidence into the subsequent rounds, however for positive we’ve got loads of work to do and perceive with the bike the place we have to enhance.
“However hopefully it’s a very good confidence increase for the workforce, for Yamaha, and we will preserve pushing.”
Nonetheless, the Australian was happy to take the consequence after a troublesome finish to 2024 and starting to this season.
“It’s nice,” Gardner mentioned. “We had a extremely robust finish to final season; I completed the season with a damaged wrist that feels okay however we began this season struggling once more so it’s not been simple.
“So, it’s good to lastly have a very good outcomes once more and we’ve been constructing the arrogance again up.
“However positively not [an easy start to the season]: we completed Portimao with a crash on Sunday, I damage my shoulder [and] it’s been actually sore for the final weeks, so I used to be pleased I used to be capable of come right here and handle that.
“It hasn’t been a straightforward weekend, both, a little bit bit troublesome with tyre alternative, setup, and in the present day we put every little thing collectively, we had a little bit of luck, and at last we had a podium.”
