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Sébastien Pourcel – Best Qualifier of the MX1 Season
16 September 2008
After claiming another pole position on Saturday at the last Grand Prix of the season in Faenza Sébastien Pourcel unfortunately posted his worst race results of the campaign with a double DNF in Italy. Winning his first ever MX1 GP on this track last year, Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing’s Sébastien Pourcel was confident coming into Faenza. The hard soil looks like the tracks found in the South of France when it’s dry and on Saturday Seb was always among the fastest riders. He entered the qualifying session feeling optimistic and claimed another pole position – the first one aboard the fuel injection model and his fifth in 2008.
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Livia Lancelot Takes the Women’s World Championship for Kawasaki!
09 September 2008
Livia Lancelot grabbed the first ever Women’s Motocross World Championship title and won her second GP of the season in Lierop on board her GPKR Kawasaki. It has been a long time since Livia got a Pee Wee as a present for Christmas. Nobody in her family was involved in motorcycling and she started practicing in the garden around her parent’s house. Later moving to real motocross tracks and starting her career with local, regional and later national races amongst the men she joined the Kawasaki family three years ago when Roger Pourcel offered her a ride in the GPKR team alongside his sons.
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GPKR team end racing relationship with Kevin Strijbos
07 September 2008
World Championship winning motocross team Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing have decided to release MX1 rider Kevin Strijbos two races prior to the end of the 2008 GP season.
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Impressive Comeback For Kevin Strijbos
01 August 2008
After sitting out a large portion of the season due to a serious thumb injury GPKR’s Kevin Strijbos makes a strong comeback at Nismes. As Kevin Strijbos’ GP comeback at Lommel looms, the likeable 22-year-old made a long awaited return to race action at the third round of the Belgian national United Telecom Trophy series at Nismes for the Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing team.
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Women's Motocross World Championship in Germany
01 July 2008
After their latest appearance in St. Jean d’Angely, the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship riders are back to action in Germany for the penultimate round of the series. The latest news is that series leader Katherine Prumm of Yamaha Van Beers will sit out of this weekend’s German round as she broke her left collarbone; the two time World Cup winner’s 2008 season started with a broken right ACL but Prumm could ride through the pain to collect the red plate at round three in St. Jean. With the Kiwi out, current runner up Livia Lancelot of GPKR is looking forward to taking back the red plate which she was snatched by Prumm at St. Jean, which was a bitter home event for Lancelot.
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Third Consecutive Win for Sébastien Pourcel
25 June 2008
One week after a successful French Grand Prix Sébastien Pourcel dominated the sixth and penultimate round of the French Elite Championship in Iffendic. Winner of the first race and then second behind Nicolas Aubin in moto two, the Kawasaki GPKR leader was unbeatable in the super final. He increased his leadership in the series and will arrive with a strong advantage of 39 points at the last round in Lacapelle Marival on August 17.
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Mixed fortunes for Sébastien Pourcel at Mallory
03 June 2008
The World Championship came to a new venue for the sixth round of the series as Mallory Park’s road race facilities welcomed the riders to a brand new track. Sébastien Pourcel was once more one of the riders who learned the new layout quickly as he posted the best lap time in all the practice sessions on Saturday. The Frenchman claimed his fourth pole position of the season and picked up the inside position on the grid for both races. The first moto was extremely brief for the GPKR rider who was third at the start. Philippaerts jumped over Sébastien in the second turn and hit his right hand - the bike was damaged too with a broken water pump and a damaged throttle cable so Seb was forced to retire.
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Double Win for GPKR with Sébastien & Livia
26 May 2008
The track of Villars sous Ecot hosted a round of the French Elite and Women’s Championship this weekend and Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing riders Sébastien Pourcel and Livia Lancelot dominated Double win for GPKR with Sébastien and Livia. Home of several Grand Prix in the 1980’s the track of Villars sous Ecot hosted a round of the French Elite and Women’s Championship this weekend. On a brand new layout the Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing riders took more success as Sébastien Pourcel and Livia Lancelot dominate their respective classes.
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Strijbos Sidelined With Thumb Injury
25 April 2008
Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing's Kevin Strijbos is almost certain to miss the next three rounds of the MX1 World Motocross Championship after undergoing minor surgery to repair an injured thumb.
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Sebastien Pourcel Second in French Mud
25 March 2008
The Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing team slog on through the deep mud at round two of the French MX1 championship.
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Fourth Place for Kevin Strijbos in Dutch Sand of Gemert
21 March 2008
Kevin Strijbos and Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing teammate Sébastien Pourcel both entered the opening round of the Dutch Championship this weekend in Gemert.
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Tough weekend for Sébastien in Bercy
16 November 2007
Sébastien Pourcel raced this weekend the famous Paris Bercy Supercross, an event that he prepared during his three week stay in California. Working with Pro Circuit, one of the most experienced companies, he tested suspensions and engines with his mechanic and came back to France with some parts in his luggage.
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Kevin Strijbos Signs With Kawasaki GPKR
01 November 2007
The Kawasaki GPKR team is pleased to announce that Kevin Strijbos has joined Sébastien Pourcel and will contest the 2008 FIM MX1 World Championship aboard a factory KX450F. Miss Livia Lancelot is the third member of the squad and will enter the Women’s World Championship on a KX250F.
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Livia, Christophe & Sébastien In Final Top Four Rankings
04 September 2007
The world championship ended this weekend in the deep sand of Lierop, where Livia Lancelot collected the best overall result of the season for Team GPKR with a second place in the Women’s World Cup. With Livia second, the absent Christophe third in the MX2 class and Sébastien fourth in the MX1 Championship, the team collected strong results from its second year of activity. Home of Grand Prix racing for several years Lierop is one of the toughest tracks of the series and was more demanding than ever as the riders had already raced five GPs in the last six weeks. For the ladies, who made their first outing on a sandy track, it was even worse but their races were finally as exciting as the MX1 and MX2 heats.
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Sébastien Clinched His Fifth Title
14 August 2007
Once more after Ernée three weeks ago, the French Championship round of Lacapelle Marival was under the Pourcel’s belt. Christophe and Sébastien dominated the races and shared the heat wins, with an overall success for Christophe followed by Sébastien who clinched his first MX1 French title. Lacapelle Marival was a perfect track for this final round, with a well prepared layout, sunny weather and big crowd for the last appearance of Christophe Pourcel and Mickael Pichon on a French MX track. During the timed practice session Pichon confirmed that he prepared this event seriously as he claimed the pole after a perfect lap, more than one second faster than anyone!
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Second Podium In A Row For Seb Pourcel
30 July 2007
Two weeks after his first GP win, Sébastien Pourcel claimed another podium with a second place in the Czech Republic for the eleventh round of the MX1 world championship. His brother Christophe had a tougher weekend as he was ill, and finished fifth in the MX2 class. Sébastien had a strong qualifying session and earned his second pole position of the season on Saturday followed by Tanel Leok from KRT. Sébastien had a great start from the gate in the first race but in the first corner he touched Ramon’s wheel and crashed.
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Livia Lancelot Leads the Women’s World Cup
03 July 2007
Livia Lancelot scored the best result for the GPKR team this weekend in Sweden with second position in the Women’s World Cup round. She now holds the red plate going into the third and last round in the Netherlands, while Christophe Pourcel was able to consolidate his second place in the MX2 standings with fourth overall.
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Sébastien Pourcel Fourth In Bulgarian MX1 GP
19 June 2007
Sevlievo, Bulgaria, 17 June 2007 - Bulgaria and the Sevlievo circuit entertained the hottest Grand Prix of the season this weekend and it was a tough event for the GP riders who had to deal with high temperatures and hard soil. The conditions suited Sébastien Pourcel who finished fourth overall while younger borther Christophe missed the MX2 podium after a lacklustre first moto.
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First GP Win This Season For Christophe Pourcel In Japan
27 May 2007
It seems that the Japanese round of the Motocross World Championship suits Christophe Pourcel and his Team GPKR. One year ago in Sugo he obtained the red plate as leader of the series and this weekend - on the bumpy Japanese track - he collected his first Grand Prix win of the season. Home of the Japanese round for three years now, Sugo is without any doubt one of the roughest track of the series. Designed in a natural valley, the circuit has a soft ground with sand and wood chippings mixed into the earth. After heavy rain on Friday the riders had to deal with deep ruts and bumps through practice and into the races on this challenging but demanding layout.
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Heat Win And Podium For Christophe Pourcel
20 May 2007
Christophe Pourcel won this weekend his first heat aboard a 450 bike, during the fourth round of the Belgian championship in Kester. Third and sixth of the other races, Christophe finished ths event in third position and is now second in the standings behind Ramon. Home of several GP of Belgium in the past, Kester is one of the most technical but also most popular race in the country and more than 7000 spectators enjoyed nice racing with numerous GP riders.
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