Before heading out on track for the final day of pre-season testing in Portugal, the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team unveiled the 2019 livery for their new BMW S1000RR. To lift the covers on the brand new SBK machine of the German manufacturer were riders Tom Sykes and Markus Reiterberger, revealing the iconic BMW M Motorsport…
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…
BMW Motorrad is making a comeback to WorldSBK championship with a Factory team in 2019, following the German company’s unveiling of the new S1000RR during the annual motorcycle show, EICMA in Milan. The return of BMW’s Factory effort will see the all-new 2019 S1000RR superbike developed and prepared by the Munich factory alongside the Shaun Muir…
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…
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…