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…
WorldSBK’s 2-day test comes to an end at Circuito de Jerez Ángel Nieto with reigning World Champion Jonathan Rea back at the top of the charts. The sun shine brightly on the final day of testing at the Spanish circuit of Jerez, where the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship riders were able to continue their…
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…
With a nine year relationship coming to an end, Tom Sykes will part ways with Kawasaki at the end of the 2018 season, as Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK announce his departure from the team. Signing with the Japanese manufacturer back in 2010, Sykes spent a season learning and developing the ZX-10R, securing his debut pole…
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…
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…
Photos: WorldSBK World Champion in imperious form in Portugal as he wins Race 2 ahead of Van der Mark and Melandri. Race 2 at the Portimao’s Autodromo Internacional do Algarve saw Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) complete a perfect weekend, with a victory by almost six seconds over second-placed Michael van der Mark (Pata Yamaha…
It was a dominant win from pole for the World Champion in Race 1 at Portimao, with Davies and Melandri also on the podium. Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) took his tenth win of 2017 with a fantastic ride at the Prosecco DOC Portuguese Round – which saw him dominate the race from pole and…