Over the past decade or so Kawasaki has been the manufacturer to beat if you wanted to win any of the major championships in the WorldSBK category itself . With the Barcelona-based Provec Racing outfit heading off to run the new bimota-based WorldSBK challenge Puccetti Racing has taken over the mantle of the official Kawasaki WorldSBK squad . It now runs a one rider Ninja ZX-10RR factory team under the title of the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team . Kawasaki also continues to race in WorldSSP with one official Ninja ZX-6R 636 , and competes in much greater numbers in WorldSSP300 .

Honda HRC , naturally enough , is the lead team campaigning the CBR1000 RR-R Fireblade once again , and with an unchanged rider line-up of Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge . The ( then-new homologation ) Fireblade and Lecuona jumped on the Race One Estoril podium in 2024 but even greater things are always going to be the ambition for any Honda HRC team . The distinctive two-rider PETRONAS MIE Honda Racing Team again forms the second WorldSBK entry . Honda will run not one but four CBR600RR machines in WorldSSP , in addition to the four bikes that form its full WorldSBK entry . bimota , in its various forms , has won 11 races in WorldSBK , starting from the very first round at Donington Park in 1988 . The Italian-based effort is back with an entire new chassis and a derivation of the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR engine . In some ways this is a whole new way to go WorldSBK racing . Why ? bimota is a manufacturer laden with mystique , yet now enjoying full support from one of the Japanese ‘ big four ’ manufacturers . Kawasaki is indeed a part-owner of the bimota company . The Provec Racing outfit will run the KB998 Rimini as the official ‘ bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team ’.

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6RR Honda CBR 1000RR bimota KB998 Rimini

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