The Misano event will he held just a few kilometres down the Adriatic coast from the bimota factory HQ in Rimini. Misano has another significance because at the end of this event half of the 12-Round WorldSBK season will have been completed.

After the opening five rounds and 15 individual races of the 2025 season the bimota KB998 Rimini has already proved potent enough for Alex and Axel to post some strong results, even in the relatively early stages of the WorldSBK machines' development.

So far Axel’s personal best is a fifth place, which he secured in the final race at Assen in April. Alex has taken the single best result of the season with fourth place in the opening race of the recent Most race weekend.

Axel is currently tenth in the championship standings and Alex is 11th. The riders from seventh to 12th in the overall rankings are separated by a mere 11 points entering the Misano round. The close nature of the fight for top ten places means that there is a great opportunity at Misano for both bimota riders to make progress in the points table.

Axel and Alex have had a chance to test at Misano recently, against almost all their 2025 rivals, in a two day track session held between 27-28 May. Axel was in particularly strong form at his home venue, finishing third fastest in the combined times.

Misano has been something of a WorldSBK regular venue for decades and has hosted over 60 individual WorldSBK races. It is almost completely flat but contains a great variety of cornering challenges along its 4.226km length, including the awesomely fast Curvone at the end of the back straight.

Misano is a form of stadium circuit, with grandstands in many strategic areas, It has even hosted floodlit night races in the local Italian CIV Championship series.
 
Race weekend for what is the second and final Italian-based round of the year gets underway with Free Practice One, on 13 June. There will be three points scoring races in all at Misano, with the first one on Saturday 14 June and two more on Sunday 15 June.

Axel Bassani stated: “This weekend we will have another home race. It is always good to ride at home and especially because this time we are really close to the bimota factory, only 20 minutes away. It is a real home round. Like always, I hope to enjoy it, to push 100% on track and give to bimota what they deserve - some good results. We will try to continue to improve the bike set-up. We know which areas we have to improve. It is not easy to improve immediately but I hope in the near future we can. Now, the level of WorldSBK is really high and we have a brand new bike this year. We are trying to do our best and after the recent test at Misano I am feeling quite good. Our pace is not bad. So, with team I think we can do a good job during the weekend.”

Alex Lowes stated: “It’s going to be a fun weekend at the real home race for bimota. We worked hard at the Misano test a few weeks ago and learned a lot about the bike. Since the test we’ve been working hard to analyse the data and put everything together for race weekend. The track itself is a lot of fun to ride and I want to keep trying to improve and fight for our best results of the season with the bimota KB998.”