.RACER JESr
By Alan Cathcart
Photos by Kel Edge
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ife's a roller coas ter. After
coming so close to retainin g
their World Su perbike title
in 1994, Rob M u z z y ' s
Kawa sa k i te am looked set to do th e
whole job in '95 after the season kicked
into action with the p reseries warm u p
on the Daytona bankin gs - we ll, if that' s
what you can call a 200-m ile race ru n on
an engine-breaking speed-bow l! In sp ite
of givi ng his rivals a head start by stepp in g off hi s ZXR750 right in fro nt o f
them all on the second lap, Scott Russell
am azing ly com pleted a hat-t rick of Daytona 200 victories by remoun tin g an d
chasing them down - and without nearly as much he lp from the p ace car as
some of his Eu ropea n foes later contende d . Kaw a sa ki w a s loo kin g good for
ano ther world title.
Yet , ju st as a m az in g ly, onl y two
m onth s later at Hockenheim (Europe's
equ ivalent of Daytona but without the
ban kin gs ) th e newly bu ilt ' 95 Mu zz y
Kawasakis were com p lete ly ou tp ace d.
Th o u gh Joch e n Schmid on th e Ku rt
Stu cki-tuned Kawasaki Germany ZXR
repeatedl y blitzed all the other facto ry
opposition in a straight line, the Mu zzy
bikes were obvious ly stru ggling. A new
2-1ยท2 twin-silencer exhaust su pposed to
Anthony Gobert's Muzzy Kawasaki ZXR750
