VAN DER MARK'S HONDA CBR600RR
RACER TEST
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEL EDGE
T
ake a bow, Honda. In winning the 2014 World
Supersport Championship's Manufacturers'
title, the Japanese giant did so for the 10th time
since the series achieved world status in 1999. It
also did so with the bike with which it invented the
600cc Supersport class back in October 1986
with the launch that year of the CBR600. Since
then more than 800,000 examples of this and its
more track-focused CBR600RR successor
have since been manufactured, making it the
best-selling and certainly most profitable
sportbike model ever made.
But maybe even more to the point, 2014
was also business as usual for the Dutch
Ten Kate Racing team that has won
those titles for Honda, as well as nine
rider's crowns so far - the last of which
came in 2010 via Kenan Sofuoglu.
Since then the flow has dried up, with
the CBR600RR seemingly outclassed
Dutch treat:
Riding a Dutch
team's Honda
CBR600 that
was ridden to the
World Supersport
Championship
by a Dutch rider.
Works for us.
MAGIC MIKEY'S
Spinning laps around Assen on the World Supersport
winner… not a bad way to spend a day
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