The bikes were run almost completely stock, with only race mufflers and some new levers fitted for track use. Both Kawasaki technicians and riders were enthusiastic about the capability of the stock suspension units, as well as the way the machine delivered power through the rev-range.
Sheridan Morais, who is a Kawasaki racing regular in his native South Africa, was instantly blown away by the capabilities of the machine.
”It’s really impressive, incredibly fast. Even as a stock bike, on standard suspension, with the road fairings still on it, it has still been really quick. Even after only a couple of sessions in the dry we are not far off the World Superstock times already. It’s really quick: it blows my mind!” he stated.
Tom Sykes and Katsuaki Fujiwara gave the full World Superbike version of the Ninja ZX-10R its first public outing on Wednesday, opting to miss the first wet day of testing to concentrate on the dry second day.
“I am happy with this test because our bike is really new and we are up against bikes with two and three years of development,” Sykes said. “Overall, on our race run this morning I did some 1’39 laps and low 1’40s, where in the race on the 2010 bike I only achieved one 1’39 and rest were in high 1’40s. We are not worried about the outright lap time at the moment. We have a couple areas where we need to keep working on. Losing the first day was no help to us but we are already fast.”
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