Kawasaki Racing Team Ninja ZX10R

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Kawasaki Racing Team is the European Netherlands based subsidiary of Japanese Big company Kawasaki deals in Motorsport Activities. It was responsible to hold Moto GP Activities since 2002 till 2008 but for 2009 Kawasaki provided a scaled down team named Hayate with Marco Melandri as a sole rider. Hayate Racing is now NGM Mobile Forward Racing. Kawasaki's first title was with Dave Simmonds in 1969 when they won the 125 cc World Championship. Kawasaki dominated the 250 cc and 350 cc grand prix classes from 1978 to 1982 winning four titles in each category. With the introduction of the four-stroke engines into MotoGP in 2002, Kawasaki decided to take part in the new MotoGP World Championship. Kawasaki entered the championship in 2003 with 250 cc Grand Prix racer Harald Eckl's Team Eckl. In 2003, the Kawasaki Racing Team was formed after Kawasaki had developed their new 990cc ZX-RR bike throughout 2002 and raced it in the last three races of the 2002 MotoGP season. The racing activities were managed by Harald Eckl's team based in Germany. It wasn't until 2004 that Kawasaki had two riders - Alex Hofmann and Shinya Nakano, who raced for the entire season. Nakano placed 3rd in Japan that year achieving Kawasaki's first podium finish in MotoGP. In 2007, Kawasaki split from Harald Eckl because of Eckl’s involvement with a competitor's MotoGP activities, which forced Kawasaki to terminate the relationship immediately. Kawasaki formed Kawasaki Motors Racing, a European subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries responsible for managing the racing activities of the MotoGP team and any other motorcycle racing activities Kawasaki may enter in the future. For the first time since Kawasaki returned to the premier class of motorcycle racing, the team became a complete ‘in house’ factory team. On January 9, 2009, Kawasaki announced it had decided to '... suspend its MotoGP racing activities from 2009 season onward and reallocate management resources more efficiently'. The company stated that it will continue racing activities using mass-produced motorcycles as well as supporting general race oriented consumers. Kawasaki's involvement in the World Superbike Championship started in 1990 with the USA-based Team Muzzy Kawasaki, which managed the superbike activities until 1996. Between 1997 and 2002, Kawasaki gave factory backing to the Harald Eckl's team, based in Germany, while Muzzy focused on the AMA Superbike domestic series. From 2003 to 2008, only privateer teams like Bertocchi and PSG-1 entered the world championship, with small factory support. In 2009, Kawasaki officially returned to SBK with Paul Bird Motorsport, but after three seasons, in 2012, Kawasaki switched the factory support to the Spanish-based Provec Racing team. Kawasaki has won several superbike racing championships. They won the rider's Superbike World Championship in 1993 with Scott Russell, two decades later in 2013 with Tom Sykes, and a third time in 2015 with Jonathan Rea. Also, the manufacturer has claimed nine AMA Superbike Championships with riders such as Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey. During the 1990s, they also dominated the Endurance World Championship. Kawasaki's traditional racing colour is green. Many Kawasaki racing teams are called Team Green. The 'Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green' provides a support program developing amateur motocross racers. The team currently signs Jonathan Rea since 2015 and Tom Sykes since 2010. being in team Rea scored 3 champions where as Sykes scored only 1 champion. Kawasaki is also best noteable manufacturer and prominent among 3 other Japanese Motorcycle manufacturers. Bike is designed by me by downloading pictures from WSBK official website, pictures taken of the angle that could made me to design easily, As I've used my original own designed Kawasaki Ninja ZX10R road bike model for retexturing purpose for converting to Race version, numbers removed, tank caps removed, headlights removed but in actual WSBK Bikes headlight stickers like NASCAR are featured but I didn't feature here. can be used for any purpose either you put numbers on it by yourself. #kawasaki #ninja