Emotions: Bimota in SBK 2025 with Kawasaki factory team / World Superbike Championship

Bimota last competed in the 2013 World Superbike Championship, when the Italian manufacturer teamed up with Belgian team Alstare and installed the S1000RR engine in its own frame. However, because the homologation requirements were not met, this project ended before the end of the season.

Bimota is now partnering with Kawasaki and the Provec Racing team, which handles the appearance of the Japanese factory. The origin of the partnership is that Kawasaki bought the Italian luxury manufacturer. Bimota will develop a new chassis for the inline four-cylinder engine of the ZX-10RR.

It can be considered that the appearance of the newly created team will depend on the design of Bimota. Not much will change in terms of personnel or organization in the Provec Championship, it will be a superbike team with two riders.

“Over the last thirteen years, myself and all the staff at the KRT workshop in Granollers have devoted ourselves wholeheartedly to the Kawasaki Superbike project and have won seven SBK rider titles as well as numerous team and manufacturer awards during this time, ” recalled the team manager. Guim Roda’s previous success. “Now, after nearly four decades of Kawasaki competing in the World Superbike Championship, we are proud to be part of a new era that is building the infrastructure for the new Bimota and Kawasaki Racing Team.”

For Provec, in a sense, one era ends, but at the same time a new one begins. “We will certainly take some time to reflect and celebrate Kawasaki’s heritage in Superbike racing, but we are also very much looking forward to being a central part of this new Bimota-Kawasaki partnership,” stressed Roda. “This is an evolution of Kawasaki’s approach to the first class of racing and we are honored to play a role in this new project. I am confident that we have the technology and human resources necessary for success.”