Kawasaki Racing Team riders Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes completed a positive test at Jerez in Spain on Friday 17 December, marking KRT’s first major step into the 2022 FIM Superbike World Championship season. Both riders carried out evaluations of new components and settings on the official Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR to allow the KMC and […]
Kawasaki certainly came, saw and conquered in South African National and GXCC Gauteng Cross Country racing in 2021. Now the green machines will be back with a star-studded 20-bike twin Pepson Plastics Motul and Franchise Company Tork Craft team attack on the 2022 championship. Kawasaki made a quiet return following a few decades out of […]
Article by Dave Cilliers / ZA Bikers We are so spoilt for choice and inundated with excellent bikes these days, that it is easy to get dismissive of the current crop of middleweight options. The bikes that make up this class, like the Yamaha MT-07, Triumph Trident, Honda NC 750, Suzuki 650’s and Kawasaki’s 650’s, […]
Kawasaki put the finishing touches to an incredible comeback cross country season. CIT Franchise Co. star Mike Pentecost added the overall GXCC Gauteng, OR1 and Northern Regions titles to his national OR1 championship with overall victory at a muddy Carletonville on Saturday. It was a winning weekend all-round for Kawasaki, as Pepson Plastics Motul trio […]
Jonathan Rea (KRT) conquered both dry and wet track conditions to win each WorldSBK race at the inaugural Mandalika WorldSBK round in Indonesia and end the season just 13 points from the championship win. With a violent rainstorm cancelling the planned Race One on Saturday at the brand new Indonesian circuit, all the race action […]
The much-anticipated 2021 WorldSBK season finale got underway at the all-new Mandalika in Indonesia on Friday 19 November, with KRT riders Jonathan Rea second and Alex Lowes seventh fastest after the opening two Free Practice sessions. The impressive layout of the all-new 4.3km circuit, close to the shore on the Island of Lombok, made an […]
The 2021 South African Cross Country Motorcycle Championship may have been Kawasaki’s comeback year, but few would have imagined that the green machines would dominate as they did as the season progressed. It started quietly and without much expectation earlier in the year, but come championship time, not only is Kawasaki hero Mike Pentecost the […]
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) scored third and second places on the final day of race action at the Circuito San Juan Villicum which means that the final round in November will be the championship decider. Alex Lowes (KRT) was ninth in the Superpole Race and but opted to let his injured hand recover and […]
