The lone American in the WorldSBK paddock is a high quality rider with a championship winning pedigree in MotoAmerica and a proven podium record ever since he arrived in WorldSBK in 2020.   Garrett, who will turn 30 midway through the 2025 season, is now a well-stablished rider in WorldSBK. His partnership with Kawasaki in 2025 will see him ride for his third different manufacturer at this level. Added to his 164 WorldSBK race starts, his great experience  has now made him the point of the Kawasaki spear alongside the new-look Kawasaki WorldSBK Team this season.   Born in Oregon but spending most of his life in Texas, Garrett spent some early years moving from state to state to follow his father’s expanding career within the motor industry.   He started racing on the asphalt at what was then called AMA level in 2011, and within five years he had won the first of two consecutive MotoAmerica Supersport championships.   In 2018 he graduated to the AMA Superbike class, finishing fifth on a Yamaha. One year later he was third for the same manufacturer, and that was when he chose to move to Europe to compete in the WorldSBK Championship.   Garrett scored three podiums in his first WorldSBK season of 2020, and then two more in year two. He even enjoyed a stand-in ride inside the MotoGP paddock. Another WorldSBK podium in 2022 was the eventual sign-off from Garrett’s long involvement with Yamaha. He then embarked on two season of WorldSBK racing aboard a BMW for an Independent team - albeit with close factory links.   For 2025 Gerloff has made another step forward in his career, riding the lone official Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR in WorldSBK, for the recently promoted Kawasaki WorldSBK Team, based in Italy.   A change to the WorldSBK schedule in 2025 means that Gerloff has located back in the USA for the bulk of the season.    Both rider and team are ent