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[MadKaw]

Kawasaki Racing Team Looking Forward To Round One Of The Australian Superbike Championship.
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From Kawasaki Australia
Australian Superbike Championship Round 1 – Phillip Island.

Jamie Stauffer (Superbike #27) and Josh Waters (Supersport) have benefitted from two pre-season test sessions in the build up to the 2005 Australian Superbike Championship, the first round kicking off at picturesque Phillip Island this coming weekend.

In an all-out assault on the Australian Superbike Championship (ASC) the KRT will be fielding Jamie Stauffer on the Ninja ZX-10R Superbike and teenager Josh Waters on the Ninja ZX-6RR Supersport bike. At the most recent test on Sydney’s 3.93km Eastern Creek circuit both had plenty of track time to give their bikes a good shakedown in preparation for their first Phillip Island track session during qualifying on Saturday morning.

"We’ve changed a few things for this year and we’re trying out a different rear shock in an attempt to maximise traction out of corners" said Jamie in regard to his Ninja ZX-10R. "Luckily, the bike is basically the same as last year, we’re just going for that little bit extra to take us from the third step of the podium to the top.”

"Jamie was lapping Eastern Creek consistently in the 1 minute 32 second bracket – that’s right on lap record pace, so we’re hopeful we’ll be on track for a great result at Phillip Island!" said team boss Scott Breedin. "We’re getting very close to a good set of baseline settings and using last year’s data has enabled us to pick up where we left off and then go a bit better still... "

On the other side of the pit garage, youngster Josh Waters was riding the all-new ZX-6RR. "It’s a jet!" was Josh’s initial impression. "The bike is a fair bit more powerful than last year’s bike which I rode at the first test. We’ve obviously got some work to do to extract as much as we can out of the bike for Phillip Island, but the basics are there." Scott Breedin was impressed. "Josh rode well during our tests, now he’s on the new bike and managed consistently fast lap times which improved as the day progressed. He’s still adapting to the bike but has a lot of natural talent – he’ll do very well, especially as the season unfolds."

Kawasaki Racing Team Manager, Murray Sayle said, "the expectation is to fight for podium positions, especially in the Superbike class where we have the bike data from last year and Jamie back on the Ninja ZX-10R. The 600 is all new and we’ve not had much opportunity to set it up but it’s going to be very competitive horsepower-wise. I’m sure Josh and the Ninja ZX-6RR will get faster as the weekend progresses and Josh gets an opportunity to continue his work in setting up the new bike by putting some high speed Phillip Island miles behind him."

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[Phil]

jamie has qualified 4th, .6 behind gilesy on pole. lets hope he gets off the line well so he can fight for the lead.

wish i was there to watch

[Steph]

Wish I was there too! I'm very excited to see Jamie on the front row. Phoned him after qualifying and he seemed pretty happy but did say that he wished he had a cleaner run and he would have done a better time.
Jamie rides best when his confidence is up and I'd say that's the case right now. Wonder if he's wearing his KSRC t-shirt under his leathers!

Stephanie

[Jonno]

Go Jamie.

Welcome Steph, keep up the good work wth the team.

Give him our best!

[MadKaw]

Wish I was there too! I'm very excited to see Jamie on the front row. Phoned him after qualifying and he seemed pretty happy but did say that he wished he had a cleaner run and he would have done a better time.
Jamie rides best when his confidence is up and I'd say that's the case right now. Wonder if he's wearing his KSRC t-shirt under his leathers!

Stephanie

Hi Stephanie
Good to see you joined us...

I hope Jamie catches up with the KSRC guys, there looking forward to it, if there sober enough...

Me, I'll just be watching it on TV with my new son..

[Steph]

Thanks Dave. I figured I'd join in on the forum since I feel like part of the family now. By the way, big congrats on the birth of your son.
When I spoke with Jamie last week about his visit to turn one, he thought he should have some time on Sunday morning as his only race that day is scheduled for 2:20. If someone gets some good photos with the banner, I'll put one up on his website.

Stephanie[/quote]

[MadKaw]

Thanks Dave. I figured I'd join in on the forum since I feel like part of the family now. By the way, big congrats on the birth of your son.
When I spoke with Jamie last week about his visit to turn one, he thought he should have some time on Sunday morning as his only race that day is scheduled for 2:20. If someone gets some good photos with the banner, I'll put one up on his website.

Stephanie

[/quote]

Thanks Stephanie,
I'll text the guys and let them know. Hopefully they'll only be onto there first beers by then..

[Phil]

woo hoo, jamie just finished second behind brooksy in the first race. looks like he's up for a good weekend.

race wins....i can smell them in the air.

[Steph]

Excellent start! Wonder if he could have pulled off the win if not for Krusty slowing him down. Maybe not, sounds like Brookes was flawless out front.

[MadKaw]

and he set a new lap record... bloody Krusty must have held him up.....

[Steph]

Just spoke with Jamie. He's pretty happy with race one. After Brookes started to pull the gap he decided to cruise in order to conserve his tires.
He also said that he plans to be over at turn one sometime tomorrow morning.
When I asked if he could see the KSRC group from the track he said no, he looked for them after the first race but didn't see anyone. I told him to look again after race two this afternoon. Please let them know that Jamie is trying to spot them from the track at the end of the race so be obvious!
Stephanie

[Steph]

Race 2 - Text message from Jamie's mechanic said that Jamie got pushed off while racing for first. Don't know yet who did the "pushing".
Stephanie

[MadKaw]

I rang the guys and they have set up about 80 - 100 metres up the straight from the corner. They said they were all yelling and cheering for Jamie and have the banner on the fence..
They are looking forward to his visit tomorrow, I told them to stop drinking, don't know the chances of that ..

What happened in race 2, he was leading then dropped to 9th.

[MadKaw]

Thanks Steph.. I'd suggest it was thay Krusty fellow...

[Steph]

Received message that Krusty was on to Giles and Jamie had nowhere to go. Sent KSRC location so he hopefully he'll find them. Thought things would turn out better after getting the holeshot. Glad I called Jamie earlier, he's probably stewing about now.