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As witnessed recently in Qatar, the KRT SBK Evo team and rider David Salom proved victorious in the EVO series, which was run as an integral part of the overall World Superbike category in 2014. How this tough feat was managed despite some bad luck before the season had fully got into its stride is testimony to the abilities of the Ninja ZX-10R, Salom and all the personnel involved.

Kawasaki won the EVO category with fabulous record of 13 best EVO race finish and a final championship advantage of 30 points. It was not all plain sailing for KRT’s one man EVO squad, however.

Salom had to show a high degree of grit and determination to overcome his painful right hand injury he had while testing at Jerez early in the year: “It was a difficult year because in early testing I broke my hand and it was very swollen, but at the end the championship was ours,” said Salom. “We started winter testing not knowing where we could finish in the championship but we worked very hard in the closed season to make a good bike.

“We went to the first round in Australia and were the best classified in the EVO class in both races. It was incredible because I did not expect this. I had problems all year with my injured hand, but we rode fast in all the races and at the end we had a very good bike and won 13 races from 24,” said Salom.

As has recently been announced, Kawasaki is making good use of its 2014 EVO success by taking David, some of his technical crew, official technology and know-how into the Team Pedercini Kawasaki squad for 2015, to enhance the overall Ninja ZX-10R challenge. In other words, the 2014 EVO success proved to be one that just keeps on giving.