All the hard work put in by the PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Team during pre-season development and testing will culminate on Saturday 23rd February, when the first of 15 World Superbike Championship rounds gets underway for real at Losail, in Qatar. Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi, the team’s exciting rider line-up for 2008, have recently completed tests at the 5.380km circuit in the desert just outside the Qatari Capital of Doha, preparing the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R for its first ever competitive outing since the launch of the latest new model to bear the legendary name of Ninja.
PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse riders Régis Laconi and Makoto Tamada took part in a positive three day test of the all new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R World Superbike machine at Phillip Island between 8 and 10 January, and each found improvements day-by-day. Conditions at the 4.445km circuit varied from a cool first day to an incredibly warm final day, complicating the task of finding a consistent set-up, and evaluating the latest batch of control tyres.