This set of pages will hopefully prove useful to those starting or thinking of starting racing. Having raced a Kawasaki KR1-S for the last two years I have learnt it is not cheap (though this depends on how serious you want to be) and it is easy to make mistakes. I do not claim to know all the answers, so I strongly recommend that you talk to others and/or visit some of the other web sites. However, at the end of the day you will only find out by doing it - that's what they call experience.

The pages are unashamedly biased towards running a KR1-S in F400 - though the info should be useful regardless of the bike and class.

First a bit a about me - I am just finished my second season racing a KR1S. I have had limited success equal 5th (on points) in the EMRA F400, 4th (I think) in the Derby Phoenix F400 - a class win, a second and several fourths. However, these results were in wet or damp conditions. In the dry 7th or 8th is usually a good result. My KR is normally the first two stroke home, except when Lloyd Cripps (very fast NSR Honda) or some of the Aprilia's are about. I have yet to come across a faster KR1 (Now that is a challenge if I ever heard one). One lesson you learn early is that initially no matter how good the machine, the rider makes all the difference. When the pace hots up then machinery starts counting. Then ultimately it looks like it is back to the rider, i.e. you can spend a fortune on a machine and still get beaten. To put everything into context I reckon I am a reasonable rider but I am still two seconds short of times that have been done on KR1's at the various circuits I have ridden at, and about three seconds off the pace of people like Mick Cheshire, Adam Greenwood and Colin Wilcock (all ride ZXR400).

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