KRT, Kawasaki’s FIM Superbike World Championship squad, will face two final days of preseason testing on the all-new Ninja ZX-10R at Phillip Island in Australia before the season itself gets underway this coming weekend. Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes are now looking forward to lapping the 4.445km Phillip Island circuit in Australia on Monday 22nd […]
Words by Robert Portman. Kawasaki has been up-front about the path it planned to take with its new superbike. With the World Superbike Championship’s governing body continuously tightening the noose around the modifications racing teams are allowed to make on their motorcycles, Kawasaki countered by loading their new production model with the equipment they needed […]
Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team star Clement Desalle underwent surgery today after suffering a fracture of the left radius in a crash during the weekend’s Valence International Motocross. Desalle was on his way to a fifth consecutive victory in the French event until his crash during the Superfinal. He had already won both MX1 races, […]
Belgian Clement Desalle will be the sole Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team representative during the first two GPs as teammate Jordi Tixier underwent wrist surgery this week. Tixier, MX2 world champion in 2014, switched to the MXGP class this winter due to the age regulation in the MX2 class. The 23 year old Frenchman, whose […]
KHI’s official 2016 FIM Superbike World Championship entry, Kawasaki Racing Team, unveiled its machinery and full package of partners and sponsors to a waiting world at the prestigious Esfèric facility in Barcelona today, 11 February. Striking colours and graphics on the all-new 2016 Ninja ZX-10R were unveiled by KRT riders Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes, […]
Only two weeks ahead of the first round of the 2016 FIM Superbike World Championship season the official Kawasaki Racing Team will unveil the all-new WorldSBK specification Ninja ZX-10R on the evening of 11 February. With a whole new showroom model for KRT to base its race efforts around this year, in what is the […]
When insurance broker Mitch Feingersch bought a new supercharged Kawasaki H2 to park alongside the original ’72 Kawasaki 750 H2 two- stroke triple and ’85 GPz 750 Turbo at his Los Angeles home he agreed to take part in a couple of marketing surveys conducted by the American importer’s marketing guys. After participating in two […]
Kawasaki won two of the five races at the famous Le Touquet Beach Race, contested by nearly 1800 riders in northern France, thanks to Matheo Miot (KX 85) and Yves Deudon (KX 500 1990). Matheo and his younger brother Florian, both members of the Kawasaki VHR team, came to this final round of the French […]
