The Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team heads for the Czech Republic this forthcoming weekend aiming to replicate their strong showing at Aragon last month when round eight of the World Superbike Championship takes place at Brno.

Last time out aboard the Paul Bird Motorsport Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10Rs at the Spanish track, Joan Lascorz celebrated the first race meeting at his home circuit with a seventh and a fifth place, his best combined points score of the season so far, whereas British rider Tom Sykes, who started from fifth place on the grid, took fifth position in race one before sliding off in the second race. Aussie Chris Vermeulen also scored 12th in race one before battling to 14th and more important points in race two.

With all three riders now fit, Yorkshireman Sykes is best placed in 13th in the series, the two races will provide a stern test for the team once again as they go in search of their first podiums of the season. Sykes only managed an 11th place finish at the corresponding World Superbike race last year although Lascorz came within a tenth of a second of winning the World Supersport race the same day.


Paul Bird, Team Owner:

"Hopefully we have turned the corner with a solid performance at Aragon and we can now continue this forward for the rest of the season. We showed we had good pace earlier in the season but things didn't work out for us for a few rounds but I feel we have made good progress recently. Both Tom and Joan are now pushing each other and I feel a podium is just around the corner and with another home race at Silverstone coming up after this round, we need to be challenging at the front from now on."



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