WSBK – Motorcycle video: Sofuoglu reaches 400 km-h on his Ninja H2R – A new record for Kenan Sofuoglu

Motorcycle video: Sofuoglu reaches 400 km / h on his Ninja H2R

WSBK - Motorcycle video: Sofuoglu reaches 400 km-h on his Ninja H2R - A new record for Kenan Sofuoglu

The attack perpetrated the day before yesterday in Istanbul did not deviate Kenan Sofuoglu from his trajectory, quite the contrary: the quadruple world champion of Supersport won his challenge to reach 400 km / h on the handlebars of his Kawasaki Ninja H2R. Video !

A new record for Kenan Sofuoglu

Kenan Sofuoglu is undoubtedly the greatest rider in World Supersport: crowned for the first time in Honda CBR600RR, he obtained three other world titles in, and on Kawasaki ZX-6R … and he is off to a good start this year. !

The n ° 1 in the discipline totals, 40 more than his teammate Randy Krummenacher and 54 more than his runner-up Patrick Jacobsen (71 more than our "Julo" Cluzel). In great shape, he won the last two races before the summer break (and).

While waiting to find his Ninja 600 prepared by the Kawasaki Pucetti team for the German event at the Lausitzring in mid-September (only the Superbike riders go to Laguna Seca next week) and to set new records in "his "category (75 podiums in 112 races, including 36 victories), Sofuoglu took up a whole other challenge…

This morning, Kenan set off on the gigantic Osman Gazi bridge, located 50 km from Istanbul (read, in order to improve his absolute motorcycle speed record: 396 km / h at the controls of his Ninja H2R, photo of its counter being authentic !

400 km / h counter, in 26 seconds

"I don’t remember where the idea for this record came from", admits the insatiable champion."When I ordered the bike, Kawasaki told me that its top speed was 380 km / h, but their dream was to reach 400 km / h.".

However, the dream of the Japanese manufacturer, who has also become that of their official World Supersport pilot, has just come true: after four months of preparation, Kenan brought the "Vmax" of the supercharged Kawasaki to 400 km / h (see the video in second page).

"I was planning to make this attempt for the official opening of the bridge", recalls the famous n ° 54 which has nearly 1.5 million fans on Facebook,"but we preferred to take advantage of optimal weather conditions so we started at 5am.

It is therefore in the cool, in particular in order to facilitate the task of the rear tire (a Pirelli, "what else"?) Which should not remain more than 30 seconds at full load, that the Kawasaki rider set off. , Red Bull, Shoei, Rev’it, Elf … and above all pilot of a whole people, devastated by the attack on the Ataturk airport.

The champion also strongly condemned the attack the day before yesterday, declaring that nothing could stop the growth of his country. By maintaining his attempt and establishing his new speed record, he has joined the deed to his word: bravo and respect, Mr. Sofuoglu !

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