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The SB8K is the only production bike in the world using Bimota's own radial injector fuel injection (Radial EFI). The racing version, SB8R participated in 2000 season of Superbike World Championship with Anthony Gobert victory for Race 1 in Phillip Island. This to be the first and only win for Bimota and SB8R.
Bimota is an Italian manufacturer of custom and production motorcycles. It was founded in 1973 in Rimini by Valerio Bianchi, Giuseppe Morri, and Massimo Tamburini . The company name is a portmanteau derived from the first two letters of each of the three founders' surnames: Bianchi, Morri, and Tamburini.
Axel Bassani (born 24 July 1999) is an Italian motorcycle racer who will compete in the Superbike World Championship aboard a Bimota KB998 with Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team for the 2025 season. In 2022 and 2023 he won the trophy for Best Independent rider. [1] He was the FIM Europe Supersport Cup winner in 2016. [2]
After negotiations with DORNA, Kawasaki provided a scaled down team named Hayate Racing Team for the 2009 season. The team was renamed due to limited factory involvement, with Kawasaki providing only one bike with Marco Melandri as the sole rider. [9] The team achieved better than expected results with 6th and 5th placings early in the season.
The Superbike World Championship began in 1988, being open to modified versions of road bike models available to the public.For many years, the formula allowed for machines with 1,000 cc V-twin engines (principally Ducati, but later Aprilia and Honda) to go up against the 750 cc four-cylinder engines (Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki).
For 2008, he switched to the European Superstock 600 championship riding a Kawasaki for Kawasaki Italia he had a best finish of 2nd, finishing 16th overall, in 2009 he switched to the FIM Superstock 1000 Championship riding a MV Agusta for the factory, but he struggled during the season, finishing in the points twice, and he and the team missed the final race of the season, due to MV Agusta ...
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Team Kawasaki France 3 R1 West Germany Hockenheimring: 8 May Alex Vieira: Christophe Bouheben: Davide Tardozzi: Bimota SpA Report: R2 Virginio Ferrari: Davide Tardozzi: Bimota SpA 4 R1 Austria Zeltweg: 3 July Malcolm Campbell: Davide Tardozzi: Marco Lucchinelli: Ducati Team Lucky Report: R2 Christophe Bouheben: Davide Tardozzi: Bimota SpA 5 R1 ...