WSBK » PBM, Kawasaki deal signed and sealed

How long before he starts slagging them off, and his riders, and the weather, and ...and...and

Hope dies last

Euripean?!

YES YES YES! I give full support to Poul Bird as a official (finally!) factory manager and yes, he has the opportunity to make miracle with such an underestimated Kawasaki now. And if he does, let say, MotoGP greens gates are openDD Strongly belive in him.

Does anybody know whether his riders were 'gifted' from kawasaki europe or bird himself signed them ?

Dean Dean - the riders were announced a fair while before the deal with PBM, which suggests that he didn't choose them. However if Kawasaki are now planning a proper effort there is logic in keeping Tamada for development continuity and feedback to Japanese engineers. For these reasons I think Tamada was a dead cert regardless of who took over the team management.

Tamada was a top class rider when he rode for Honda, however after spending a year with Tech 3 trying to develop Dunlop tires in moto gp and another year wasted on Kawasaki in WSB he seems to have given up, perhaps if the bike was competitive? Broc Parkes is in my opinion a retrograde step, Laconi did at least try and paid the price by crashing too much. I hope I am not wrong but I can not see things improving given Kawasaski's track record in international road racing, perhaps Paul Bird motorsports is the team to develop the bikes and give Kawasaki Japan a real shake up!

Congrats to Paul Bird and Kawasaki. Go Parkes & Tamada "Let the Good Times Roll"
Broc Parkes(Checked Stats)2004-2007 2' World SSP 2006-2008 4' World SSP 2005:6' World SSP 23Podiums 11Pole 14FastL fr 67races:Placed 11th in the WorldSBK in a privateer team bike.So proved he can ride a superbike on Pirelli tyres.He was spons by Kawasaki in Aust.on dirtbikes so hope he and Kawasaki are as successful as they were then. Makoto Tamada(Checked Stats)MotoGPVictories:2 MotoGPPodiums:5 MotorGPPoles:3 WorldSBK 4Podiums 1Pole 3FastL fr34races. If Kawasaki Factory and the team get behind these riders they can be good again. Next year will be a real test with the largest amount of factory backed SBK Teams

Well done Paul & team.

How long will it be untill we see Paul's golden boy, Scott " I won at Donnington ! " Redding move over to the green side?

Good work KR, you have made a great choice in PBM.