Kawasaki unveiled its official KRT FIM Superbike World Championship machinery and graphics package at the team launch in Barcelona on February 6, 2020 - the final step before the on-track action resumes at Phillip Island at the end of the month.
The KHI official riding line-up will feature record-breaking five-time WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea aboard the latest race specification Ninja ZX-10RR. Joining him is exciting new signing for the 2020 season, Alex Lowes.
The event took place in KRT’s European HQ, with the on-stage elements hosted by WorldSBK paddock show host Michael Hill, "inside the very workshops that have been instrumental in propelling Kawasaki riders to the top in recent seasons".
With winter testing in Europe now complete, Jonathan Rea said: "We have had a solid pre-season where I felt fast and consistent and the target is to win another championship - for the team, Kawasaki and myself."
Proven WorldSBK race winner and former BSB Champion Alex Lowes said about the final unveiling of his 2020 package: "I have been with the team for a few months now and it has been great to be part of this team."
Steve Guttridge, Racing Manager for KME, said: "Eight years ago we started a new history that - at the time - was a big step for Kawasaki Motors Europe, as we were charged by our headquarters in Japan with all aspects of managing the official project, along with KHI and the team. We commissioned Provec Racing to move up a category to the premier league of World Superbike for the 2012 season and always enjoyed strong support from a small but very clever group of KHI engineers in Japan, all of whom started working on the Ninja ZX-10RR as a race-orientated base machine to fit our riders perfectly ever since. By 2013 we had already won the title with Tom Sykes and narrowly missed out in 2014 before Jonathan Rea's record-breaking run."
The team now heads for the first of the 13 rounds that will make up the 2020 season. The first official WorldSBK test will take place at Phillip Island on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 February. Race weekend in Australia will start on Friday 28 February and finish on Sunday, the first day of March.
