Kawasaki is a world renown motors corporation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands that contributes to the motor sports through kawasaki motorcycle parts, ATVs and parts, RUVs, Jet-Skis, utility vehicles and more. They area always launching new products and have expanded quite a bit since the year 2000. Kawasaki is also the name of a Japanese city one that houses many leagues and facilities that focus on motor sports. But that’s in a different article.

This article is all about the Kawasaki Motor Racing alliance which is a European subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries located in the Netherlands. This corporation handles all racing activities of the MotoGP team and any other motorcycle racing event that Kawasaki wants to partake in the future. This subsidiary was set up back in 2007 when the Hapenes manufacturers wanted a split from production and racing. After this, Kawasaki returned to the class of motorcuycle racing and subsequently became a complete “in house” factory team.

The Kawasaki Racing team was not formed until 2003. It was then that they feceloped their new 990cc ZX-RR bike and raced it in the 2002 MotoGP season. In 2004 this team managed two official riders, Alex Hofmann and Shinya Nakano. Because of Nakano’s third place victory, team Kawasaki gained it’s first podium finish in the MotoGP.

In the 2007 season, the team used their new 800cc Ninja ZX-RR. Their team riders were Oliver Jacque and Randy de Puniet. Unfortunately, due to several crashes during practice and the last race, Oliver Jacque was injured and doomed for competition. He then retired and was replaced by Australia’s own Anthony West. Randy de Puniet finished managed to grap the second place slot with a Japanese Grand Prix.

In 2008, the team decided to pull out of the MotoGP competition due to the global financial crisis. After negations with DORNA in 2009, the team scaled their team down to the Hayate Racing team which was renamed due to limited Kawasaki involvement. They only provided one bike and one rider. Miraculously, the team finished 5th and 6th and it happened to be the best result on the podium since 2007.

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