The all-new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R race bike has been unveiled to international press at the Nürburgring race track, and at the same time the riders for the 2011 World Superbike Championship season were introduced. NÜRBURGRING, September 02, 2010 - The presentation of the new bike and riders comes just before the German round of The World Superbike Championship, which will take place…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, Ont. (August 10) - Alex Welsh and the Competition Systems Kawasaki Race Team enjoyed a successful conclusion to their 2010 race season with a win and a runner-up finish in the Pro Sport Bike class at the final round of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship at Atlantic Motorsport Park last weekend. In his first appearance aboard the Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja this…
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Kawasaki Racing Team rider Tom Sykes won both of Sunday's races during the British Superbike Championship weekend at Brands Hatch, shortly before he and his team commenced their summer break.Superbike World Championship regular Tom qualified second on the grid for the first race of a busy BSB weekend, which took place on Saturday 7th August. In that two-part wet race he finished fifth, putting…
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Katsuaki Fujiwara rode his official Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R into the points at Silverstone afterfinding his race set-up not ideal for the often bumpy English circuit.He was the lone finisher from the Kawasaki Motocard.com team as third place qualifier Joan Lascorz was involved in a first lap accident after he and another rider touched exiting turn one, and Joan fell. A following rider could not…
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Tom Sykes scored points for 14th place in race two at his home round of Silverstone, remaining 16th in the overall championship standings after two long races in round ten of the championship. Tom was 18th in race one, but after some changes to his technical set-up he improved his finishing position in race two, after what was an overcast but dry day of high-speed action in the English…
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Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen fought hard through intensely hot weather conditions this weekend in the Czech Republic, with the highpoint being a strong points scoring ride for Tom in race one. The Kawasaki Racing Team duo endured air temperatures of over 30 degrees and had to make tyre and set-up choices to match track temperatures that rose to almost 60 degrees, but only Tom was able to score…
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Joan Lascorz led for ten of the 18-laps of the Supersport race at Brno and his team-mate Katsuaki Fujiwara was a strong top five, in what was a positive day of racing for the official Kawasaki squad. Lascorz was starting from pole and looked capable of running away at the front for a time, but the high track temperatures and tough competition from eventual winner Kenan Sofuoglu made the ultimate…
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TORONTO, Ont. - Alex Welsh and the Competition Systems Kawasaki Race Team are looking forward to the fourth and fifth round of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship at Mosport International Raceway July 8-11 after a pair of sixth place finishes at Calgary's Race City Motorsport Park last weekend. The 22-year-old rider of the team's Kawasaki ZX-10R Ninja heads to Mosport in the thick…
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Ottawa, Ontario-  SPEED TV's Greg White will replace injured Kahuna Powersports Kawasaki rookie Pro rider Vicki Schouten at the upcoming round of the Parts Canada Superbike series in Calgary, Alberta June 24-27.   Schouten, who sustained a broken right foot, including a compound fracture in a qualifying heat race last month at Shannonville Motorsport Park, is unable to race the…
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May was a particularly busy month for the Kawasaki Racing Team, with three full-on championship rounds, on three different continents, in the space of four weeks. We check out how they made it happen.In terms of logistics and planning, the multi-national Kawasaki Racing Team had a more complicated time than most this May, with staff from almost ten different countries arriving at all three WSBK…
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Front row starters Joan Lascorz and Katsuaki Fujiwara each made strong points scores at Miller in the USA, after 18-laps of high-speed action in the Memorial Day holiday Monday race. The 4.907km Miller Motorsport Park suited both riders and machinery better than the previous round at Kyalami and each rider saw that in their final results, with Joan third in the race and Katsuaki sixth. Joan was…
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Kawasaki Racing Team riders Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen scored points in each Miller Motorsports Park race today, maintaining their championship positions. The riders also improved on their qualifying positions in each race, as they got to grips with the big and fast corners at Miller, during another intense day of race action in the Superbike World Championship. In the first 21-lap contest…
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Toronto, ON (May 20th ) - The Competition Systems Kawasaki Racing Team with rider Alex Welsh just completed 3 days of testing at the Calabogie Motorsports Park in conjunction with the Turn2 organization. "We are more than pleased with the improvements we have made to our championship winning bikes over the winter months,'' said team owner Mike Crompton .  "The new Öhlins suspension…
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WSS, Kyalami, South Africa, 16 May 2010 Joan Lascorz ended his Kyalami weekend just a handful of points from the championship lead despite finishing fifth and off the podium for the first time in 2010. The Spanish rider could not get his set-up to match the tricky and very bumpy Kyalami circuit and no matter how hard he rode he could not keep the leading riders in his sights after qualifying…
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WSBK, Kyalami, South Africa, 16 May 2010 Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen worked hard on raceday at Kyalami but the nature of the circuit and set-up issues did not help their joint push towards the top places in two 24-lap races. The Kawasaki Racing Team Ninja ZX-10R riders had been 12th and 19th respectively in qualifying, with the best single result of raceday being 14th for Tom, in race two. …
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WSS, Kyalami, South Africa, 15 May 2010 Katsuaki Fujiwara (Kawasaki Motocard.com) had the honour of finishing top Kawasaki rider in WSS qualifying at Kyalami, fourth overall. His team-mate Joan Lascorz starts the race eighth on the grid. Katsuaki's front row qualification came is slightly peculiar circumstances, as he set a personal best lap of 1'41.415, exactly the same lap time set by the…
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WSBK, Kyalami, South Africa, 15 May 2010 Tom Sykes put up a good fight in qualifying and Superpole on his Kawasaki Racing Team Ninja ZX-10R, finally reaching Superpole 2 and going 12th on the grid for Sunday's two 24-lap races. His team-mate Chris Vermeulen was still working around the limitations of his injured right knee, but made improvements all through practice to make it into Superpole 1,…
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WSS, Kyalami, South Africa, 11 May 2010 Round six of a busy World Supersport race season takes place at Kyalami in South Africa only a few days after the culmination of round five at Monza, Italy. Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motocard.com) finished third at Monza, his fifth podium score in a row. Remarkably third place (only just over three seconds from a win) was Joan's lowest individual race score…
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WSBK, Kyalami, South Africa, 11 May 2010 The 4.246km circuit of Kyalami is the venue for the sixth round of the Superbike World Championship, as both Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen go for strong points scores yet again. Sykes was on superb form in qualifying and in the two Monza races themselves a few days ago, and he intends to keep the momentum up as he attacks the hills and bumps of the…
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WSS, Monza, Italy, 9 May 2010 Joan Lascorz was third today at Monza and his fifth podium place in succession was enough to keep him in the championship lead. Katsuaki Fujiwara was also on good form, finishing fifth after 16 laps. Third in qualifying Joan was second on lap one, then third as Eugene Laverty and Kenan Sofuoglu headed the field. On the final two laps Joan drew close to Sofuoglu but…
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