WorldSBK and WorldSSP riders completed the final day of testing around Autodromo do Algarve in Portimao, which hosted from 27th-28th January the final two-day European pre-season test before the 2019 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship season will kick off in Australia next month. A stronger wind blew at the Portuguese rollercoaster race track, but riders…
The Jerez Angel Nieto Circuit once again for the second of a two day test in Southern Spain, where four MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship teams continued to work on their 2019 set-ups. Over 600 laps of the 4.2km circuit were run by the eight riders, and steps were made ahead of what is set to…
Great news for Kawasaki big bikes enthusiasts – Team Green’s eagerly-awaited Model Year 2019 Ninja-series of motorcycles, the Ninja ZX-636R and Ninja ZX-10RR, have just made their debut in Malaysia during the ongoing 2018 Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show (KLIMS) which is held at MITEC. Both bikes were unveiled by Kawasaki Motors (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd…
Reigning world champion Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) has put in a strong opening day on track around MotorLand Aragon, ending the first day of winter testing fastest as unofficial times were recorded at the Spanish circuit. But it was Ducati stealing the headlines, with the debut of the V4 R. Beginning 2019…
Seventeen down, one to go. Jonathan Rea of KRT (Kawasaki Racing Team) has won the first race of the Pirelli Qatar Round and matched Doug Polen’s record for the most race victories in a single season, with 17 additional laps still to go tomorrow morning (early Sunday in Malaysia) at the Losail International Circuit. He…
Kawasaki Racing Team’s (KRT) rider, Jonathan Rea has made history once again at the Circuito San Juan Villicum, winning the first ever race of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship on South American soil in authoritative fashion. Aruba.it Racing – Ducati’s Marco Melandri, who secured pole ahead of Rea, had to contend with 2nd place more…
The official Team Green entry for the 41st running of the classic Coca-Cola Suzuka 8-Hours World Endurance Championship race, comprising Jonathan Rea, Leon Haslam and Kazuma Watanabe, took the second best time on their Ninja ZX-10RR at the end of the final official test session before the race itself later this month. In a grueling…
Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) has taken his second win of the weekend at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli after a scorcher of a race around the Rimini track. If yesterday was a relatively comfortable affair for the defending champion, on Sunday Rea had to dig deep and get the best out…
Reigning WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) won his 60th historical victory today at Brno in Czech Republic by beating Ducati Aruba.it’s Marco Melandri and as well as KRT teammate Tom Sykes. When the FIM Superbike World Championship last graced the flowing hills of the Automotodrom Brno, Rea was a promising 25-year-old…
Photos from WorldSBK.com Kawasaki Racing Team’s (KRT) Jonathan Rea secured his first double wins of the 2018 WorldSBK season after he cruised to victory in Race 2 over 4 seconds adrift from compatriot Chaz Davies of Ducati Aruba.it. The victory also gives the Northern Irishman a record-equaling 59 wins with another Briton, 4-time WorldSBK champion…
If Dorna and the FIM wanted to slow down the ultimate lap times of the three-time WorldSBK Champion Jonathan Rea, thanks to the new 14,100rpm rev limit imposed on all the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR machines on the grid at the start of the 2018 season, it has not worked so far. The Kawasaki man did…
Windy conditions welcomed riders to the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit as the final pre-season test of 2018 was underway, but there were no surprises from the timing screens as Marco Melandri of Aruba.it Racing – Ducati ended the day on top, followed by the Kawasaki Racing Team duo of Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea…