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’.

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