Kawsaki WSB - Hacking to replace Tamada - Salt Lake

[MadKaw]

Parkes And Hacking Team Up For Miller Superbike Round
WSBK, Salt Lake City, USA, 24 May 2009
Broc Parkes finds himself partnered with another fast local rider for a long-haul WSB championship round, as Jamie Hacking joins the Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team for the Miller race weekend. Last time out, at Kyalami in South Africa, local Kawasaki competitor Sheridan Morais put in two strong performances as a stand-in for injured team regular Makoto Tamada, and the team hopes that the fast and experienced Hacking will also be able to make a quick transition to the World Superbike scene at one of his home tracks.
Parkes, who was still suffering from the lingering effects of a testing injury in South Africa, expects to be much closer to 100% fit for the American round. He found the bumpy and intensely physical Kyalami circuit a difficult place to make his comeback, and is glad to have had a weekend off to allow his body to return to normal before heading to the US for raceday on 31 May.
Hacking is a well-known and well-respected force in American racing and having been a Kawasaki rider for the past few seasons, he has memories of riding the Ninja ZX-10R at Miller in the AMA Superbike class last year. Rider and team are both keen to get to work this coming weekend and have positive expectations, despite the vast strength-in-depth of World Superbike racing in 2009.
Hacking, the AMA Supersport and Superstock champion in 2006, has raced WSB on two previous occasions, as a wild card at Laguna Seca in 1998 and 1999. He posted a best single result of seventh.

Broc Parkes: “I'm grateful to have a two week rest between Kyalami and Miller to give my body a break and to get back to a decent fitness level as I really struggled in Kyalami. I'm looking forward to seeing how we go when I'm back to myself as the bike has been improving each race and we're showing good progress with solid points scoring finishes. I didn't race at Miller in World Supersport last year so this will be my first visit but I'm looking forward to it and also welcoming another new team-mate who is a local and will have experience he can bring to the team.”

Jamie Hacking: “I rode World Superbikes back when I first started racing at Laguna Seca. Obviously a lot has changed and I have more experience. I can't really say what a realistic expectation would be without riding the bike, but Miller does seem to suit my style. Last year, it was our best track on the ZX-10R and I hope that we can try for a top ten.”

[hoffy]

Good Tamada is shite !

[Gosling1]

That should make for an interesting round !!! Hacking can pedal alright.....

[MadKaw]

Superb Second Row Starts For Parkes And Hacking
WSBK, Salt Lake City, USA, 31 May 2009
The best qualifying sessions of the year for the official Ninja ZX-10R riders put Broc Parkes seventh and Jamie Hacking eighth for Sunday’s 21-lap World Superbike races. This is the first time that Parkes has made it through to Superpole Three, but in doing so he guaranteed that he would have a first or second row starting position.
The Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team’s joy was redoubled when local rider Hacking, competing in place of the injured Makoto Tamada, slotted in just one place behind Parkes, displacing many more experienced WSB regulars in the process.
Parkes has improved his level of fitness since the previous round, but is still not quite 100% back to normal, making his pre-race performances all the more worthy of recognition. Unlike many of his regular WSB rivals, he had never ridden at Miller before first practice on Friday afternoon, but was fast and adept from the very start.
Hacking has a greater level of experience of the 4.907km Miller Motorsports Park than his new team-mate, but as he races a 600cc machine this season in the AMA series his immediate promotion into the upper echelons of WSB qualifying is a singularly impressive achievement. He even headed the entire field after Superpole One.
The strong pre-race results are a boost for all in the Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team members, but their immediate attentions now turn to the races on Sunday, and the possibility of a return of the rain which arrived late today. Impressive lighting strikes all around the circuit were the backdrop to most of Superpole, and very light rain was evident on the riders' visors towards the end, although the track surface proved to be largely dry.
Broc Parkes: “That’s the best qualifying this year. This is my first time here and straight out of the box we were quite fast. The bike works well, but we haven’t got a perfect race set-up yet. I think we can work around that for tomorrow. I’m really happy for the team because we are going forward. I’m also starting to get my fitness back again because it’s been two weeks since Kyalami. Jamie has a lot of local knowledge and that has brought quite a lot into the team. That's been really good. The track is lots of fun, big, open and flowing, and that’s what I like. It reminds me a lot of Qatar.”
Jamie Hacking: “To have gone all the way through every Superpole session, with a total of just over three hours on this bike, I’m pleased. We have a good, really good, race set-up on the bike, got the race tyres picked and I am real happy with it. Obviously I would have liked to have improved more but with the conditions we had out there, it wasn’t worth risking crashing a bike and having to start all over. None of the corners were wet, but you could see the water on the visor and feel it on your neck, you knew it was not truly dry. We had a very good shot at the front two rows there, and it should be a good race. I’m really looking forward to it. ”

-----------------------------

Pole Breakthrough For Lascorz At Miller
WSS, Salt Lake City, USA, 30 May 2009
Joan Lascorz took his first career pole position in WSS racing at Miller Motorsports Park, securing a new best lap of 1’51.749 on his way to the best grid slot for Sunday’s 18-lap race. Lascorz was the leading rider throughout the lone qualifying session, and his success was also the first Kawasaki pole in 2009. This result for Joan and his team was particularly sweet because he has been second on the grid no fewer than four times this year, but not quite in the prime starting spot until now.

Lascorz’ Provec Motocard.com Kawasaki team had a new engine specification for him to try at this race and he made good use of both his machine’s high pace and his own determined and skilful riding performance to beat his nearest challenger, Eugene Laverty, by 0.080 seconds. Joan also finished 0.302 seconds up on the third best rider, Cal Crutchlow, with the rest of the field some way behind those three.

Katsuaki Fujiwara rode his Ninja ZX-6R into the top ten, earning a third row start in the only US-based round of the 2009 calendar, which signifies the halfway point of the 14-round season.

The Miller circuit, in use by World Supersport for the first time this year, has proved relatively easy to learn for most of the WSS riders. The fact that only one of the main protagonists has ever raced there before is sure to make Sunday’s race an entertaining event for competitors and fans alike.

Joan Lascorz: “My fast lap was perfect and we took the pole position. At the end I had learned how to run at a consistent level and could keep the pace high. Then I needed to put in a new tyre and see if I could go faster, and we went a tenth or so better. I just rode a bit better and it made the difference. Other riders are fast and maybe we will have a race between three or four riders, not like in Kyalami. I think we still have more potential from our bike, it’s still new this year. This was a new track for us although it is not that technical. But when you go at the fastest pace the track always feels technical enough!”

Katsuaki Fujiwara: “Our qualifying wasn’t so bad but I wanted more, a little bit more, to get into the 1’52s. We got better through all the sessions. The track is fun, but a little bit bumpy. Tomorrow we will have a look at something in the warm-up session to help us with our overall race pace.”

[dilligaf]

haga had a dramatic off




http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport ... hagacrash/

[Greenblood]

I watched the race last night & was thinking what is Hacking on, he hit Brock & almost took them
both out & in the second race hit another Kawasaki the guy wemt down & ran off twice.