Kawasaki's Villopoto jumped out to an early lead and dominated the supercross class main event at Daytona just minutes after Kawasaki's Pourcel won his third straight supercross lites main event. Pourcel's teammate Dean Wilson scored his first podium finish coming home third. Nick Wey earned his best finish of the season finishing seventh and Chad Reed posted the fastest lap in practice, but did…
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Aranda took an impressive overall win in Sommieres last weekend, closely followed by Boog who finished second. In MX2 Frossard took the overall win with teammate VanHorebeek finishing third overall. Kawasaki Bud Racing:  Winner of the three heats during the opening round of the French Elite Championship, Gregory Aranda confirmed in Sommières his huge progression for his second year…
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Kawasaki's Christophe Pourcel won his second-straight supercross lites main event battling throughout the 15-lap race at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Pourcel had to chase down his teammate Dean Wilson who flew out to the holeshot and led the first two-thirds of the race. Wilson would finish one spot off the podium in fourth. In the supercross class, Monster Energy Kawasaki's Nick Wey came home…
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Kawasaki Racing Team riders Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen found the opening race weekend a challenging one, but Sykes got into the points in the first leg after qualifying on row three. Sykes was a fighting 13th in the 22-lap race, but Vermeulen fell while trying to move forward from seventh, crashing out on lap four. Tom was forced out of the second race when a small technical issue caused him…
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Joan Lascorz and Katsuaki Fujiwara were both on target for a superb double podium finish at Phillip Island, but only Joan was to take home some silverware, finishing second overall. He and Katsuaki looked set to fight it out for second on their Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R machines when the Japanese rider went past into second place, only to fall at the fourth turn on lap 18 of 21. The race had been…
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Kawasaki Racing Team riders Tom Sykes and Chris Vermeulen will start of the third and fourth row respectively for Sunday's 22-lap World Superbike Championship races in Australia. After finishing 12th and 15th fastest in the first qualifying session on Friday, today's second qualifying saw Vermeulen seventh fastest, and Sykes 13th. Combined qualifying times placed Chris eighth and Tom 15th, each…
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Joan Lascorz and Katsuaki Fujiwara enjoyed their first 2010 season qualifying outings at Phillip Island, with Lascorz on pole on his 25th birthday, and Fujiwara almost on the front row. Lascorz, a main force all through practice and qualifying, headed both official qualifying session and approaches the 21-lap race with a new track best lap for Supersport in his possession, a 1'33.847, set in…
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With an all-new line-up of riders and a great increase in the scale of its overall effort, the Kawasaki Racing Team now starts the 2010 season with well-founded optimism and determination. Former GP star Chris Vermeulen and the increasingly experienced Tom Sykes make-up a strong riding combination for the official Kawasaki squad in 2010, having built up a good working relationship already with…
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Kawasaki's official Supersport team has now completed extensive winter tests and intense backroom preparations and racing for points gets underway for real on Sunday 28th February. Katsuaki Fujiwara and Joan Lascorz put in strong testing performances at Phillip Island recently on their Ninja ZX-6R machines, but the effort for 2010 began immediately after the conclusion of last season's final…
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Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto dominated the main event Saturday night leading all 20 laps at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. on his way to his second win of the season. Nick Wey earned his third straight top-10 finish with the team, riding for the injured Chad Reed. In the supercross lites class, Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki's Jake Weimer finished eighth after falling while…
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The Kawasaki Provec Motocard.com team completed its last European test of the 2010 pre-season on February 8th, lapping the Calafat race circuit in Spain for a short time before rain stopped play. The planned two-day test was cut to a single day for logistical reasons as well, with all the team's equipment set to be boxed up and flown to Australia on Thursday 11th, in readiness for the first race…
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Weimer brought home his fourth win in five races. The 22-year-old claimed the supercross lites victory and extended his points lead to 26 with just three races remaining in the West Coast season. Josh Hansen battled the track all night to finish 11th. In the supercross class, Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto was collected in a first turn pile up, but recovered to finish fourth. His…
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The Kawasaki Racing Team made a solid start to the 2010 European motocross season in the traditional season-opener at the sandy track on the outskirts of the ancient north Italian city of Mantova. With two months to the start of the World MX1 Championship series, actual results in the invitational race at Mantova seldom reflect world championship form but all three Kawasaki riders proved that…
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The Pedercini team has confirmed that Matteo Baiocco will join their team to contest the 2010 World Superbike championship season. The 26-year old rider is an extremely talented and dedicated rider. In 2003 Matteo won the European Supersport championship and in 2004 he made his debut on the International scene competing in the Supersport World Championship. In 2006, Baiocco participated in the…
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Fabien Foret will return to the Kawasaki fold with the Lorenzini by Leoni Kawasaki World Supersport squad in 2010, and the 2002 World Champion spoke to us about his joy at landing such a strong ride. Foret has every reason to be happy returning to the Kawasaki family, having won races twice before on Ninja machinery; at Misano in 2003 on a ZX-6RR operated by the Kawasaki Racing Team, and at…
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Villopoto returned to the top step of the podium Saturday night with his first win of 2010. Kawasaki's Jake Weimer earned his fourth straight supercross lites podium with a runner-up finish. Villopoto had been looking for a breakout race and San Francisco showed the 21-year-old was ready to battle for the title. After moving into second, Villopoto started to cut the gap to first. When the…
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Weimer had another great night at Anaheim as he won the main event for the third straight week. Hansen blasted out to the holeshot and finished fourth. Villopoto finished seventh. Weimer's victory marks his third win of the season as well as his fourth win in the last five races at Angel Stadium. Weimer hasn't thought about any type of streak as he is focusing on one race at a time. "Winning…
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Chris Vermeulen and Tom Sykes had a chance to ride their Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R machines alongside many of their rivals during the first official tests of 2010, at Portimao, between 22 and 24 January. The three day test was often affected by adverse weather conditions, with the first day proving dry and sunny, then the second one was wet to start and the track never quite dried out. The final day…
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Joan Lascorz ended up second in the rankings after three days of testing at Portimao in Portugal, with the weather playing its part in disrupting some of his plans. The first day of testing for Joan and his team-mate Katsuaki Fujiwara began well, but rain on day two, and a still damp track on the final day, held back the progress of the team as it continued its preparations for the new…
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After the New Year holidays the Kawasaki Provec Motocard.com team returned to work with a test session at Almeria in Spain last weekend, 16th and 17th January. The Provec team was evaluating new technical improvements that had arrived from Japan, and gave the opportunity to Joan Lascorz and Katsuaki Fujiwara to enjoy some valuable track time and improve their bike fitness before the next test…
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