Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) continued his perfect start to the latest FIM Superbike World Championship campaign on the Ninja ZX-10RR by taking his second win of the weekend today and his fourth in succession. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) had his best finish of the year in second place, in a second race, which was shortened to...
It needed to be a fight-back of epic proportions, but Wellington's Sloan Frost and his Suzuki GSX-R1000 were up for it.The final weekend of racing in this season's New Zealand Superbike Championships at Hampton Downs at the weekend went right down to the wire, with Frost sensationally overcoming a massive points deficit to eventually...
I stumbled across this gem of a video while cruising YouTube, looking for something totally different. Sometimes that's the way you find something new, and worthy.In the 1970s, I wasn't old enough to ride a motorbike, let alone a superbike, but I sure dreamed of them. Later on I owned a Suzuki GT380 triple, but so wished it was the...
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) secured his second FIM Superbike World Championship in succession thanks to a second place finish in the opening race at Losail in Qatar. The last time this feat was achieved was 17 years ago. Tom Sykes (KRT) finished fourth in the race to remain second in the championship standings, with one race...
The main prizes in the WorldSSP championship were awarded at the penultimate round in Jerez when Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) secured the Riders’ Championship and Kawasaki took the Manufacturers’ trophy. In the ESS category, which races within the WorldSSP rounds in Europe, Axel Bassani (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki)...
After what feels like forever, we are finally starting to see some new models being released.Both press releases are a bit light on detail but we are promised much more detail sometime later.The star surely has to be the new Kawasaki H2. I'd love to put one in my lounge just to look at it. Stunning design.Suzuki Unveils...
After experiencing very different fortunes on the first race day at the Lausitzring Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes once again posted a contrasting set of results on Sunday. Rea convincingly won a wet 16-lap race this time around but Sykes finished 12th, after falling and then restarting from the back of the field.As the KRT duo lined up...
Waitangi Weekend 2016 was the date of the fourth Leadfoot Festival. Inspired by the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Kiwi racing legend Rod Millen turned his driveway into a race track then created a hill climb event around it. Drivers are invited from all over New Zealand and the world to bring cars and race the tricky and narrow 1.2km up...
Upon stumbling on to this website, I was pretty confused. First of all I didn't know there was such a thing as motorcycle chariot racing, and secondly that it has been going that long that it has a history??Yes sir, dating back to the 1920s people have been attaching motorcycles to chariots and then naturally, because they are males,...