2015 name | Team Pedercini |
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Base | Volta Mantovana, Italy |
Team principal/s | Lucio Pedercini |
Race riders |
Superbike World Championship 23 Christophe Ponsonn 44 David Salom 27 Riccardo Cecchini 56 Peter Sebestyen 67 Bryan Staring 98 Romain Lanusse |
Motorcycle | Kawasaki ZX-10R |
Tyres | Pirelli |
Riders' Championships | none |
Team Pedercini is an Italian motorcycle racing team, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship and with Kawasaki ZX-10R motorcycles.
The team was founded in 1993 by Lucio Pedercini. Pedercini rode in the 500cc World Championship with a ROC-Yamaha until 1998, when he switched to World Superbike Championship. The team then extended its participation in the following years also to the Italian Championship and the . Pedercini raced with his team until 2006, when he retired from racing. Other riders who raced in the World Championship with Team Pedercini were Marco Borciani, Mauro Sanchini, Serafino Foti, Nello Russo, Gianluca Nannelli, Alessio Velini, Ivan Clementi, Max Neukirchner, Kurtis Roberts, Ayrton Badovini, Vittorio Iannuzzo, Luca Scassa, David Salom, Roger Lee Hayden and Matteo Baiocco. The team used Ducati motorbikes until 2008, when they started using Kawasaki machinery.
In 2014, the team competed in the World Superbike Championship with riders Alessandro Andreozzi and Luca Scassa. The also fielded a team in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup consisting of Lorenzo Savadori, Balazs Nemeth, Romain Lanusse and Javier Alviz. In 2015, the team were chosen by Kawasaki to be their satellite team competing in the World Superbike Championship with Javier Alviz and David Salom riding Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R motorcycles.