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Misano Cauldron Awaits World Superbike Contenders
26 June 2008
The action in the 2008 HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship is undoubtedly set to heat up this weekend as the runners and riders head for the Misano World Circuit cauldron on Italy’s Adriatic Riviera coast for Round 8, the San Marino Round organized in collaboration with the motorcycling federation of the tiny, Italian-speaking but independent, Republic state. With 7 rounds done and dusted, the season now enters its second half and the revised Santamonica circuit could not be a better place for this next phase of the championship, with scorching weather expected at the holiday venue to liven up proceedings. The last two rounds have produced two double winners in Carlos Checa (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) at Miller Motorsports Park and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) at the Nurburgring, but more to the point they have seen Troy Bayliss’s leadership grip on a championship gradually come under threat.
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Good Results Boost Kawasaki Riders’ Totals
16 June 2008
PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse riders Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi finished each Nürburgring well in the points, with Tamada scoring the day’s best individual result of ninth in race one. The return to the Nürburgring started off as a tough challenge for Tamada and Laconi, who were 21st and 13th on the grid respectively, but they battled hard in each race, and to great effect, pushing themselves up in the championship rankings. In race one Tamada rode strongly in the early laps and made up several places on the first lap itself, eventually going into the top ten for the first time since Assen.
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Haga Scores Magnificent Double Win at the Nurburgring
15 June 2008
Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) scored a fantastic double win at the Nurburgring on World Superbike’s return to the German track for the first time in ten years. Just two weeks after breaking his collarbone in the USA, Haga fought off Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) to win race 1, and then got the better of his team-mate Troy Corser in a rain-shortened second encounter to take the double. Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) took two thirds in front of his home crowd. Despite unfavourable weather conditions, the German Round of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship, reached a satisfactory overall attendance of 41,000 over the 3 days.
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Kawasaki Riders Work Hard For Points
03 June 2008
Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) rode with conviction in the two Miller Motorsports Park races and each rider scored points at this new WSB venue. In race one, shortened to 20-laps after a startline grid position delay involving backmarkers, Laconi looked set for a strong finish until a crash on lap five stopped him from capitalising further on his seventh place qualifying position. Tamada was a distant 19th in the race, after struggling to find a suitable set-up on his raceday machine.
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Tough Raceday For Monza WSB Duo
12 May 2008
Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi found their early ambitions at Monza not matched by their raceday fortunes, as neither rider managed to finish a race today. Laconi has a technical problem in race one and then had to start race two from pitlane, after his original machine developed a fault. He was running strongly and looking set for a points score, until he fell on lap seven, at the Parabolica corner.
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Tamada And Laconi Make Real Progress At Monza For PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse
11 May 2008
PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse riders Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi found their Ninja ZX-10R machinery generally well-suited to the Monza circuit in qualifying.
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Tamada Takes Two Assen Points Hauls
28 April 2008
PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse rider Makoto Tamada moved up to 15th in the championship standings today after two strong points scoring rides. Tamada finished race one in a strong eighth place and followed that up with ninth in the second 22-lap contest, passing riders off the start each time. Régis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse) went 11th in race one but chatter from his machine meant it was difficult for him to post a better result in race two and he slid down from a top ten place on lap one to 16th, missing out on any points for race two. Laconi is now 18th overall in the rankings, with 21 points.
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Laconi & Tamada In the Valencia Points
07 April 2008
Two 23-lap races allowed the PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Team’s riders to compete for strong top ten positions in Spain, during round three of the World Superbike Championship. Régis Laconi scored an eighth place in race one today and followed that up with a second race ninth place to overtake his team-mate Makoto Tamada in the championship standings. Tamada was ninth and then a non-finisher in race two after a crash caused by eagerness to pass an opponent and get to a higher position.
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Tamada 12th In Spanish Superpole
06 April 2008
Two dry days of qualifying saw each PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse rider, Régis Laconi and Makoto Tamada, qualify with ease for the Superpole session, with Tamada eventually finishing up 12th on the grid. Tamada had also found himself 12th going into Superpole but on qualifying tyres he set a weekend best of 1’34.930 in the final one-lap contest that determines the front four rows of the grid, putting down a good marker for raceday.
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Tamada Top Ten After Valencia Tests
17 March 2008
Makoto Tamada (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse) made great advances in finding a good race set-up for his 2008 specification machine, after a busy two days at the official tests in Valencia, Spain. Régis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse) had a less happy time on his machine, working hard but not finding the same degree of improvement as his team-mate. Laconi was, however, very close to Tamada in terms of his single best lap time, with Tamada setting a 1’35.591 and Laconi a 1’35.740.
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Laconi Fast But Stopped In His Tracks
02 March 2008
Régis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse) looked set for a strong finish in race two at Phillip Island until he was penalised with a ride-through penalty for jump-starting. Both he and his team-mate Makoto Tamada had found improvements in the set-up of their Ninja ZX-10R machines during final qualifying and morning warm-up, with Tamada finishing 14th in race two. Neither rider managed to complete race one, each suffering the same form of technical problem with their electronics systems.
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Tamada & Laconi Score Points On New Kawasaki
25 February 2008
Makoto Tamada (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse) finished 12th in race two at Losail, shortly after his team-mate Régis Laconi had secured a point in race one. Tamada had been forced out of race one with a technical problem but charged hard from a lowly starting position, passing many riders on the first few laps on his new model Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R.
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New World Dream For PSG-1 Kawasaki
19 February 2008
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.
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Improvements Continue Apace for New Ninja ZX-10R
11 January 2008
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.
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Kawasaki’s New Ninja ZX-10R Rises to the WSB Challenge
10 January 2008
A three-day Development Teams’ test at Phillip Island between 8 and 10 January will give PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse riders Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi a great opportunity to measure the progress of the all new Kawasaki SBK machine against the established order. Armed with the critically acclaimed new Ninja ZX-10R, new boy Tamada and old hand Laconi will be testing not only their machines but the latest developments in the SBK’s series control tyres, in readiness for the first round of the championship at Qatar, on 23 February.
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Nieto Scores Fabulous 3rd At Magny-Cours
08 October 2007
Fonsi Nieto (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) rode two impressive races at Magny-Cours and topped a great day for him and his team off with the podium they had been searching for. Nieto was fifth in race one, but after a race laden with determination from Nieto and race-long ability from his machine he scored a fabulous third in race two. Regis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) worked hard for his two top ten finishes at his home track, and in going ninth and eighth scored a final top ten in the overall championship chase. Nieto finished his raceday 12th.
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Last Round Promises Final Flourish
02 October 2007
After the largely encouraging results posted by both Regis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) and Fonsi Nieto (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) at the previous SBK round last weekend, Laconi’s home circuit of Magny-Cours can be approached with confidence by both riders.
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Laconi Seventh As Nieto Doubles Up
01 October 2007
Regis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) scored the single best Kawasaki rider finish at Vallelunga with a seventh in race one, but his regular team-mate Fonsi Nieto (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) scored a pair of eighth places to make the biggest mark in the points haul. Laconi slowly fell to earth in race two after outbraking himself into the corner after the back straight, while third team rider at Vallelunga Vittorio Iannuzzo (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) was a more than respectable tenth and 12th in the two 24-lap contests.
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Strong Scores For Kawasaki’s Front Row Starters
10 September 2007
Superpole winner Fonsi Nieto (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) and second fastest qualifier Regis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) each started from enviable positions in Germany, and scored good points in each 24-lap race, which were held in mercifully dry conditions. In race one Laconi was highest finisher for the team, in sixth place, just one up on Nieto. The race was won by Noriyuki Haga, by 11 seconds from Max Biaggi.
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Nieto Takes Sensational Superpole Win
09 September 2007
Fonsi Nieto (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) chose a successful Superpole strategy to secure his first ever SBK pole position, and in a great day for the Kawasaki riders Regis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) took second best time. With the ‘wet’ Superpole rules in place, due to wet weather marring most of the second day of qualifying, the 50-minute session started out with a largely dry track surface and most riders running slicks. Nieto could sense the rains coming and decided to make a quick exit from pitlane, getting out fastest and first, and he managed to get his ZX-10R across the line just before the rains came back with real vengeance. Hence his best time was almost four seconds faster than his team-mate Laconi, who made the best job possible after half the track suddenly became drenched in rain water.
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