
At the end of May each year, just as the summer sun starts to heat up, business as usual resumes for a handful of motorcycle racers.
Drama and emotion were the prevailing traits of the sixth round of thirteen in the 2017 FIM WorldSBK Championship at Donington Park in England’s Midlands where the Kawasaki Racing Team saw both Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea take the chequered flags around one of the UK’s most distinctive motorsport venues.
Round two of the 2017 FIM WorldSBK Championship was almost a rubber-stamp of the opening meeting in Australia two weeks ago: namely World Champion Jonathan Rea as an unstoppable force to notch his third and fourth race wins of the season in the oppressive heat of the Chang circuit in Buriram, Thailand.