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NEWS (ENG)

Minoru Kanamori apart from being an employee, research and development rider and jet ski enthusiast he is a race too. Usually we notice lots of tricky parts on his race crafts and he also has got some factory stickers, gear and parts that bring memories from the good old days of personal water craft racing. The pictured stickers were seen at the World Finals on one of his motor home chairs.

This year South African ex world champion Dustin Motzouris had competed in Pro Ski and GP Ski class. Dustin was riding a special carbon hull SX-R in GP Class prepared by Steve Webster of Kommander Industries. We have seen all fine tuning work done during the last week before the event and we rode his Trinity carbon hull SX-R that was equipped with a DASA power valve engine. Read all about under the Race Tests section.

Since four-strokes came out in pwc scene we have not heard anything about new exhaust systems and Factory Pipe is still selling a lot of these SX-R pipes. Though, someone thought of making a brand new exhaust pipe for Ultra. We have seen this picture at Rogue Jets web site and we are looking forward to hear more about this new project. It nice to see something really new coming up for the Kawasaki four-stroke engine.

This particular sport looking rear seat has been designed by Costantino, a firm that we presented in the past (read all about it under the Features Section). Its new creation scopes to replace the standard heavy OEM rear seat of Ultra that weighs -including the base- 15kg. This sporty seat weighs only 3,41kg and enables the owner to use the OEM rider’s seat. It is available in fiberglass (500euro), carbon (750euro) and carbon/kevlar (750euro) and it bolts on straight without needing any further adjustment. Also, the rider can remove the stock front seat easily. The new seat is available from Costantino (tel.:+30210-2321201) and Champions store (www.championsjetski.com).

East Coast Freeriders are sponsored by Hot Products USA and lots of their “air time” pictures are featured to the company’s blog. Though, these riders have their own web site (www.eastcoastfreeriders.net) so spent some time to take a look at their wonderful action shots.

Lagopoulos adds two distance records aboard Sea-Doo watercraft in 2009 by riding 286-miles in six-hours and 880-miles in under 24-hours. Eric Lagopoulos set two new world records by riding his Sea-Doo RXT iS 255 watercraft further than anyone before him, in six-hours (286 miles/460 km) and 24-hours (880-hours/1416 km) to bring the count of world records, accomplished on BRP's Sea-Doo watercraft in 2009, to five. Eric Lagopoulos, a professional personal watercraft racer and model from Sarasota, Florida, set the two endurance marks Thursday, November 12, 2009 on Guinness Book of World Records day joining Mike Pagliccia, Juan Felix Bravo, and Dale Vranckx as riders setting new world records in 2009 on Sea Doo watercraft. Lagopoulos achieved the two world record marks piloting an Action Watercraft (Venice, FL)-backed Sea-Doo RXT iS watercraft around a 20.5-mile loop on the C-54 Canal south of Palm Bay, FL. The first of Lagoupoulos' two world records fell early in the morning on November 12th after overcoming strong winds, dark skies, and scattered rain when he completed 286 miles (460km) at the six-hour mark with his Sea-Doo RXT iS watercraft performing flawlessly. The cold front moved through as Lagopoulos continued to log miles at over 62 mph (100km). After riding over 17 hours with minimal stops and the sun setting, Lagopoulos was satisfied with bettering the previous mark by nearly 100miles, and finished with 880 miles (1416km).

It is obvious that Team Kawasaki run out of luck this year at the World Finals. Though, Craig Warner proved just another year that he is the man to beat in Pro Runabout Open. He won the Qualifier, Moto 1 and he was ahead in Moto 2 until he faced a mechanical issue on lap 8. Still the package Kawasaki/Warner were in a class of their own although they use the same engine recipe for 4 years. Read all about it in our exclusive test and report under the Features section.