Ten Kate Racing
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| 2017 name |
World Superbike Honda World Superbike Team |
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| Base | Nieuwleusen, Netherlands |
| Team principal/s | Ronald ten Kate |
| Race riders |
Superbike World Championship 6.  Stefan Bradl69.  Nicky Hayden
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| Motorcycle | Honda CBR1000RR |
| Tyres | Pirelli |
| Riders' Championships | 10 2014 Michael van der Mark 2010 Kenan Sofuoğlu 2008 Andrew Pitt 2007 James Toseland 2007 Kenan Sofuoğlu 2006 Sébastien Charpentier 2005 Sébastien Charpentier 2004 Karl Muggeridge 2003 Chris Vermeulen 2002 Fabien Foret |
Ten Kate Racing is a motorbike racing team, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship under the name Honda World Superbike Team, and the Supersport World Championship under the name Honda World Supersport Team.
Gerrit ten Kate was a full-time rider, who like many undertook his own mechanics. After semi-retirement from his own career, he guided his nephew Ronald ten Kate through regional motocross series to fourth place in the Dutch national championship. Having founded a workshop undertaking mechanics for other riders during his career, it was noticed that Ronald's bike was fast, which resulted in Gerrit expanding his workshop to the point where he was selling and maintaining 50/60 bikes per annum.
In 1993, Gerrit gave up his own motocross activities to concentrate on developing his motorcycle dealership Ten Kate Motorcycles in Nieuwleusen, near Zwolle in the north of the Netherlands. Soon after foundation, local road racing rider Harry van Beek came to the showroom looking for help, so Gerrit fixed it. Van Beek got a wildcard entry in the European Superstock round at Hockenheim, where he found he had the fastest bike. As a result, from 1994 Ten Kate entered road racing maintenance.
From 1995, the team entered its own team in regional Dutch road racing. Managed by Ronald ten Kate, each season Ten Kate Racing has increased in scope and size, and now takes a team of 28 - including technicians, administrative staff and four riders - to contest the World Superbike and Supersport champ:
The team first entered the Supersport World Championship full-time in 2001, using Honda CBR600F4i motorcycles. In 2002 Ten Kate rider Fabien Foret won the championship, Honda's first in Supersport.
The team went on to win all of the last six Supersport World Championships using the Honda CBR600RR. In 2003 Chris Vermeulen won the title, followed by Karl Muggeridge in 2004, Sébastien Charpentier in 2005, who retained his title in 2006, the first rider ever to do so, and Kenan Sofuoğlu who won the championship in 2007. Also in 2008 Ten Kate wins with Andrew Pitt.
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