Tom Sykes is to remain with Kawasaki for the 2012 World Superbike season, despite the Japanese manufacturer switching factory support from the Paul Bird Motorsports team to the Provec team that ran Kawasaki's World Supersport squad in 2011. The Yorkshireman impressed on the Kawasaki ZX-10R throughout the 2011 season, and his strong results earned him a new contract with the Japanese factory.
Sykes had been racing with Kawasaki for the past two years, after spending a year as teammate to Ben Spies in the factory Yamaha squad. The Englishman was consistently fast on the Kawasaki, showing an improvement when the Japanese factory introduced the new 2011 model this year. Sykes got his long-awaited first victory in WSBK in Germany this year, in the atrocious conditions that caused race 2 at the Nurburgring to be red-flagged, handing Sykes the win.
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