Jonathan Rea on the new Kawasaki (ZX-10RR) in Motorland Aragon – the Northern Irishman will be extremely disadvantaged on some routes such as Aragon and Portimão at the start of the season. He and his team have been bullied several times by the FIM for their looks (© Kawasaki Racing Team).

The FILM’s scandalous speed limits put Kawasaki at a disadvantage – sport fraud!

Now it finally became clear why the dubious gentlemen of the FIM only publish the speed limits of the WSBK at the very last minute. This is a veritable scandal that we haven’t seen for years. While the new BMW M-1000RR is allowed to turn up to 15500 rpm, the new Kawasaki ZX-10RR is cheated of every chance at 14600 rpm even before the first race on the straight and in acceleration. We are excited to see the reactions in the sports world, but for us this has nothing to do with sports. This is bullying, gentlemen of the functionaries, and if you do not want to go down in history as a fraudulent sportsman, we urgently advise you to correct it. Otherwise, in principle, all serious opponents of Kawasaki, except for Yamaha, are officially allowed to take doping substances.

The current models, which except for Kawasaki and Yamaha are allowed to turn significantly higher, are highlighted in dark grey, which makes Kawasaki’s task with their new developments extremely difficult and treats and disadvantages them unequally compared to all others.

The justification of the FIM is absolutely outrageous and pulled by the hair
“The 2021 BMW M1000RR engine received several new components. Therefore, the CTI decided that a calculation-based speed limit would be set for it. The 2021 Kawasaki ZX-10RR engine received only a limited amount of new components. Therefore, the CTI decided that it should be There is a rev limit based on the power balancing algorithm that corresponds to the 2020 season model “. Of course, the FIM deliberately refrained from disclosing their “calculation methods”. It is obvious that the further development of the BMW M-1000RR compared to the S-1000RR is in a similar framework to that of the Kawasaki. The FIM was looking for a “justification” to try to justify this scandalous discrimination against the Kawasaki. The bottom line is that all of this simply smells like fraud in sports, there is nothing else to add.

The new BMW M-1000RR – although similar to the Kawasaki ZX-10RR, a further development of the previous model without any revolutionary changes, the German brand was extremely favoured over the Japanese (© BMW Motorrad).

The increase in injustice compared to 2019 is blatant
Even with the new Ducati Panigale V4R, many observers suspected that Dorna and FIM were working together on this topic. Even today, the MotoGP replica of the red one has an astronomically high permitted maximum speed. It was not for nothing that Marco Melandri publicly stated after their presentation that, in his opinion, Ducati had thereby destroyed the spirit of WorldSBK. Before that, there were some points that were optimized and tuned sports bikes for sale, which usually cost just over 20,000 euros at the dealer, which competed against each other. Not only did Ducati basically transfer a MotoGP machine with lights and indicators to the WSBK, after 9 victories in a row by Bautista it was only slowed down by 250 rpm. When Kawasaki began to dominate with Jonathan Rea, however, after 3 races there was a reduction in the maximum speed allowed by twice the value. Mind you, this is at a much lower level than the astronomical 16,000 rpm of the Panigale V4R.

Alex Lowes on the new Kawasaki (ZX-10RR) in Motorland Aragon during the test drives of KRT – before the season starts, he and all other Kawasaki brand colleagues, especially world champion Johnny Rea, are brutally braked in a highly questionable way (© Kawasaki Racing Team).

On May 21st, the WorldSBK engines are already thundering in Aragon

The break was far too long, from mid-October 2020 to the end of May this year. This is thanks to fans, teams and drivers of the Dorna, as well as the pandemic, although this is anything but new. The first calendar planning by FIM and Dorna in November 2020 for MotoGP and WorldSBK already showed that the gentlemen had neither taken the corona pandemic nor the mutations that had been on everyone’s lips since autumn at the latest. The consequence of this were countless changes to the plan, which, with a more reasonable assessment of the situation, could at least partly have been avoided. But what the FIM now offered stinks so badly that you can be happy if there are no visitors on the route and most of them stay incognito.

Jonathan Rea on the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda before the start in Kyalami (South Africa) – the Northern Irishman is already used to competing with inferior equipment from this time, but even he could not expect that he would be slowed down on the new Kawasaki.

The extremely late announcement of the speed limits came specifically just before the start of the season
It is now at least finally clear why this communication took place at the very last minute. So Kawasaki has absolutely no chance to react before the first race in Aragon before the lights go out for the first time. This is precisely why this disadvantage of the Greens stinks twice to heaven. For many viewers it again seems as if officials want to do everything in their power to prevent Jonathan Rea’s dominance from continuing. If you look at the relatively modest results of his teammates since 2015, everything seems to be aimed at forcing a new world champion on a different make than Kawasaki by force. For now, the perfidious plan seems to be working. The extremely late announcement of the speed limits was therefore absolutely targeted so shortly before the start of the season.

WorldSBK Rookie Isaac Viñales (ORELAC Racing VERDNATURA), like Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing Team) and the two Pedercini drivers, is also one of the victims of the senseless castration of the Kawasakis by the arbitrariness of the FIM, regardless of whether he will drive the old or the new model (© Kawasaki Racing Team).

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Unless otherwise stated, this applies to all images (© WorldSBK).