Honda Predicts More World Supersport Success For CBR600RR

Honda Predicts More World Supersport Success For CBR600RR

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From a press release issued by Honda Racing:

First Among Equals

No global race class is a better test of machinery than the World Supersport Championship. Featuring close to production spec machines, with relatively few modifications and DOT tyres, Supersport is a true proving ground of the track readiness of any particular machine.

In 2003 the Honda CBR600RR made its spectacularly successful appearance on the World Supersport scene. Honda riders took 16 podium finishes including seven out of 11 wins – and six out of 11 pole positions.

With a second year of off-season machine development and increased experience of the CBR600RR, the officially supported Honda teams in World Supersport are primed for another year of exciting competition, in what is normally one of the most closely contested series in the world.

Six riders, in three teams will feel the benefit of Honda-supported status. The Ten Kate Honda squad has provided the set-up for the past two World Supersport Champions, Fabien Foret in 2002 and Chris Vermeulen in 2003. This year an all-Australian pairing of Karl Muggeridge and Broc Parkes will ride in the distinctive solid yellow livery of the Ten Kate squad. Each is a proven entity in Supersport, with Muggeridge the more experienced of the two.

Former World Sidecar Champion Klaus Klaffenbock lends his name to the Klaffi Honda team, and for the 2004 season he has relied on a mix of experience and youth in his Austrian-based team. Frenchman Sebastien Charpentier was a revelation when he joined Klaffi midway through the season in 2003, securing a podium finish and enough points in only nine races to end his year in the top seven. His team-mate this time around is young German battler Max Neukirchner, a relative four-stroke novice but a highly regarded investment for the future however immediate or long term.

Team Italia Megabike exists to promote Italian riders into the higher echelons of racing and this year the team’s tie up with Alessio Corradi and Denis Sacchetti takes place on supported Honda CBR600RRs. Corradi is a former European Champion and recent podium finisher in World Supersport while Sacchetti is the latest in a long line of Team Italia riders looking to break into the rarefied atmosphere of the World Championships.

The powerful wing beat of Honda’s awesome CBR600RR will propel all six factory backed riders from Australia to Imola, Brands Hatch to Valencia, as once more Honda’s unquenchable spirit of competition forms the vanguard of this intense World Championship competition.


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