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MotoGP – Rossi tames Sachsenring

26 April, 2020
Today’s race at the Sachsenring circuit was decided by 0,099 of a second and won by Valentino Rossi who held off his teammate Jorge Lorenzo to take his fourth victory of the season and also equal Giacomo Agostini’s record of…

Serious injury for Joan Lascorz during WSBK Imola test

26 April, 2020
At 12.54 today, just minutes before the end of morning session of official Superbike testing at Imola, Spanish rider Joan Lascorz lost control of his Kawasaki in the uphill section of the circuit from Tosa to Piratella and crashed. The…

Marco Melandri about to sign with Kawasaki

26 April, 2020
Marco Melandri will ride in 2009 MotoGP with Kawasaki. Marco informed his decision to team chef Michael Bartholemy after Sunday’s last MotoGP race in Brno.Marco could also sign at the Honda Fausto Gresini, the Honda satellite team, but he toke…

Video: Kawasaki Superstock break-up at Imola

26 April, 2020
If you missed today’s opening round of the 2012 FIM Superstock 1000 Championship at Imola won by Sylvain Barrier, just check out why the race was red flagged. Heber Pedrosa came off his Team Brazil Kawasaki at high speed at…

WSBK Miller – The Texas Terror Takes Seven

25 April, 2020
Ben Spies took his seventh consecutive Superpole yesterday at Miller Sportspark and while he was at it also broke fellow American Doug Polen’s record that had been standing since 1991.The first stint of the session saw Jamie Hacking, who is…

Tom Sykes grabs the Superpole in wet Misano

25 April, 2020
If someone would have said that Tom Sykes would be in pole position for tomorrows’s World Superbike round at Misano, they would have been judged nuts, but they didn’t take in account a rain shower that drenched the Italian circuit…

Kawsaki Ninja: celebrating 25 years

25 April, 2020
We give you a full gallery of the Kawasaki Ninja in honour of its 25th anniversary this year. As we can see from the pics, the Ninja has undergone quite a few stylistic changes over the years, with the last…

WSBK Nurburgring – Haga takes his 1st Superpole

25 April, 2020
Noriyuki Haga took his first Superpole of the season in today’s session at the Nurburgring race track in Germany. Haga led all three Superpole stints with a final best lap of 1:55.489 and 0.260s in front of second place Jonathan…

Tom Sykes on Superpole at Imola with record breaking lap

24 April, 2020
With 14 riders grouped in less than a second, today’s Superpole at Imola was all about tire management and using Pirelli’s two qualifying tires at the right time, with the riders who had the slowest race pace using both tires…

Kawasaki ZX10R Hayate replica

24 April, 2020
German company Hoely has created this tuning of the ZX10R, calling it the Kawasaki ZX10R Hayate Replica. The bike was presented to Marco Melandri during a delivery of a mini-moto which was also a Hayate replica.This ZX10R replica is made…

WSBK – Chris Vermeulen on the Mend, Expects to Race at Assen

24 April, 2020
Chris Vermeulen expects to be fit enough to race at the upcoming World Superbike round at Assen on April 23-25th.The Austrialian badly injured his right knee at the season opener at Phillip Island underwent keyhole surgery to repair the extensive…

New 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R

24 April, 2020
The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R gets a brand new engine, chassis and suspension components for 2011, making it one of the stars at the 2010 Intermot show. The ZX-10R has a new curved body look, rather than edged surfaces, and uses…

2011 EICMA: Kawasaki ZZR 1400 m.y. 2012

24 April, 2020
The Kawasaki ZZR 1400 for the year 2012 is also at the EICMA. At a first glance the model doesn’t seem to show many differences compared to its predecessor, just some subtle aesthetic modification here and there. Basically, the newly…

WSBK Gallery of Pics from Misano

24 April, 2020
After reading about how the two World Superbike races went at the Misano World circuit and the rider quotes, you can now check out our gallery of pics, courtesy of our Italian cousins over at Motoblog.

Kawasaki WSBK and Supersport teams testing at Valencia

23 April, 2020
While BMW, Aprilia and Crescent Suzuki are at Portimao for a three day test session, away from prying eyes and displaying only carbon bodywork, Kawasaki’s World Superbike and Supersport teams were testing at Valencia yesterday.Confirmed riders Tom Sykes and Joan…

WSBK Nurburgring Images

23 April, 2020
Check out our fantastic gallery of pics from this WSBK weekend at Nurburgring. With just three rounds left in the season who is going to win the 2009 World Superbike title, the rookie Ben ‘Texas Terror’ Spies or the veteran…

Freddy Foray tries to blend in with the Brits (w/video)

23 April, 2020
Being the only French rider in the British Superbike Championship can’t be easy, so this time Quattro Plant Kawasaki rider Freddy Foray, in another great video documenting his adventurous life in the British series, tries to blend in with the…

MotoGP Laguna Seca – Rider Quotes from Qualifying Session

23 April, 2020
Rider quotes from yesterday’s dramatic and crash strewn qualifying sessione at the Mazda Speedway at Laguna Seca.Update on Jorge Lorenzo’s conditions: The Spanish rider besides dislocating his collarbone, has a fractured metatarsal in his right foot and mini fracture to…

WSBK Imola Race 2 – Michel Fabrizio Wins

23 April, 2020
Italian machinery ruled again in race 2 at Imola. This time it was a Ducati Xerox 1 -2 with Michel Fabrizio who took first place followed by team mate Noriyuki Haga and wildcard Marco Simoncelli on the Aprilia RSV4 Factory,…

2010 Kawasaki Z1000 pics

23 April, 2020
The 2010 Kawasaki Z1000 is a brand new bike, with all new four-cylinder engine, alluminium chassis and a meaner look. It has been designed to draw on past naked streetbike tradition, but provide a totally new Z1000 riding experience for…

WSBK Misano: Tom Sykes pips Carlos Checa in QP2

22 April, 2020
In the final qualifying practice ahead of this afternoon’s Superpole, Tom Sykes found the pace he was looking for and it looks like he wants another Tissot watch as the Kawasaki rider went under the 1.36 minute barrier to lap…

WSBK Portimao Tests – Day 2 with rider quotes

22 April, 2020
Jonathan Rea was once again the fastest rider on the final day of testing at Portimao posting the fastest time of 1’41.7s. Rea’s lap on race tires was almost a second faster than his best qualifying time from the weekend…

WSBK Superpole cancelled

22 April, 2020
Today’s World Superbike Superpole has been cancelled following a horrific four rider crash during one of the Australian support class races. Unfortunately there has been a tragedy and reports from Phillip Island say that one of the riders has passed…