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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.
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.
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).
Bimota V Due: Bimota 500 cm 3 2-stroke 150 1997–1999 V Due Corsa: 26 1999–2001 V Due Corsa Evoluzione: 120 2001–2003 V Due Evoluzione: 14 2003 V Due Racing Edizione Finale: 30 2005 BMW: BB1 Supermono: Rotax extract from BMW F650: 376 1995–1997 BB1 Supermono Biposto: 148 1996–1997 BB2: S1000RR: 1 2012 BB3: 26 2013-2015 Ducati: 666 LE ...
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.
Kawasaki Motors Philippines Corporation (KMPC or Kawasaki Philippines) is a subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. under the motorcycle unit. It manufactures motorcycle/motorcycle parts, and bicycle/bicycle parts. Kawasaki Philippines is also the official distributor and assembler of Bajaj and Modenas in the Philippines.
The KMR Kawasaki Team's 2012 Isle of Man TT races got off to a disappointing start when both Farquhar and Jamie Hamilton were forced to retire from the opening 6-lap Superbike TT race. Farquhar was forced out on the third lap after experiencing handling problems from lap one onwards whilst Hamilton, on his TT race debut, had to stop on the ...
The team started competing in the MotoGP class as the Hayate Racing Team, a scaled down version of the Kawasaki factory team that withdrew from MotoGP for the 2009 championship due to the Great Recession. [1] The team took its name from the Japanese word Hayate meaning hurricane. The team ran one Kawasaki ZX-RR motorcycle that was ridden by ...