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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Weimer won for the second straight week in the supercross lites class. In the supercross class, Villopoto won his heat race and returned to the podium in the main event where he finished second. Weimer's race didn't start the way he wanted, but a late race charge moved him from a podium position to the top of the box. In the final four laps, Weimer moved from third to first to secure his second…
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New Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team rider Tom Sykes starts his second full time SBK season full of enthusiasm and commitment to make another positive step in his career. Sykes, already a podium finisher in the Superbike World Championship, after some brilliant wild card rides in 2008, ended his first full-time season in WSB last year well inside the top ten. That overall ninth position came…
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Jake Weimer stood on the top step of the podium for the second consecutive year as he dominated the lites class at the season opener. The season opener at Anaheim is the Super Bowl of supercross as everyone is excited for the new season. With that excitement comes added pressure, but that didn't seem to affect Weimer at all. He paced both practice sessions, easily won his heat race, rocketed to…
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The Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team ended an intense period of recent testing activity with two days of riding at Jerez and now continues its preparations for 2010 in confident mood. Chris Vermeulen in particular was impressed with the great progress which has been made in the past few weeks, despite losing almost all of the final day of the test as the track conditions finally took a turn…
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After finishing a test at Almeria recently the Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team made further progress in its goal of finding the optimum set-up for the Ninja ZX-10R. Chris Vermeulen had his first experience of riding at Almeria while simultaneously making improvements to his Ninja ZX-10R over two fruitful days. He said of his first taste of the Almeria layout, "Our test went well. It was…
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For three days the Kawasaki Provec Motocard.com team evaluated new developments at Almeria, Spain, making real progress in terms of set-up and testing new material. The team worked through the latest suspension developments and advances in its electronics package once again, from 16 to 18 December. In the pit garage the Provec Motocard.com squad has changed its way of working to improve its…
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Chris Vermeulen rode his 2010-spec Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R machine in a two-day test at Cartagena, Spain, on November 30 and December 1, getting to know his full technical crew for the first time. The Aussie rider said of his Cartagena experience, "It was all good and our first real time on the bike to get familiar with it. It was also the first time working with the mechanics and engineers…
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