After months of teasers, the new Kawasaki Ninja was shown to the press at the Nürburgring racetrack.
“The new race bike has been eagerly anticipated by everyone involved in the Superbike racing project for a while now. The PBM team have evolved and restructured continuously in order to be in a position to utilise the new bike's potential to the maximum next season,” Steve Guttridge, the Race Planning Manager from Kawasaki Motors Europe, said.
While no mechanical details have been released, it appears there is a centrally-mounted front airscoop and conventionally-angled cylinders.
Ichiro Yoda, the Kawasaki Project Director, confirmed that racing is at the heart of the new machine’s DNA. “We have started development this bike with slick tyres and racing spec engine. This is a quite different procedure than previous models.”