Kawasaki?s Factory WSBK Team Down to Two Possibilities

After taking bids from teams to obtain factory backing for the 2012 World Superbike season, Kawasaki has narrowed the choices down to two teams, and will likely announce its decision next week. This season the embattled Paul Bird Motorsports team has had factory backing for riders Chris Vermeulen, Joan Lascorz, and Tom Sykes, though the results have not been spectacular, and Vermeulen has spent much of the season recovering from injuries. With Kawasaki second to ...

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Kawasaki?s Factory WSBK Team Down to Two Possibilities

After taking bids from teams to obtain factory backing for the 2012 World Superbike season, Kawasaki has narrowed the choices down to two teams, and will likely announce its decision next week. This season the embattled Paul Bird Motorsports team has had factory backing for riders Chris Vermeulen, Joan Lascorz, and Tom Sykes, though the results have not been spectacular, and Vermeulen has spent much of the season recovering from injuries. With Kawasaki second to ...

John Hopkins Shinichi Itoh Olivier Jacque Yukio Kagayama Mika Kallio

Official: Colin Edwards to Forward Racing?s CRT Team ? Hopes for an R1 Motor in a Tech3 Chassis

As we published at the Indianapolis GP this past weekend, Colin Edwards’ time in the Monster Yamaha Tech3 garage seemed to be coming to an end, as the veteran MotoGP racer and former-World Superbike Champion was linked to several other possibilities in WSBK and MotoGP for the 2012 season. Making his thoughts clear, Edwards believes there’s some value to the claiming rule team (CRT) formula, saying ?I think there?ll be tracks where it?s going to surprise ...

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