Bucking the trend for race wins to only be taken by full factory teams, Kawasaki Puccetti started to secure podiums and then finally race wins, with no less a racing force than Toprak Razgatlioglu taking the first WorldSBK race wins, after some strong podium performances from other top riders.
Puccetti continued to race in WorldSBK as an Independent Team right up to the end of the 2024 season, when the arrival of the bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team on the grid for 2025 saw KMC promote the Puccetti operation to be the sole WorldSBK entry on the official Ninja ZX-10RR machine.
2018, and the entry to WorldSBK for Razgatlioglu, saw him secure two podiums the year after, at Donington and Argentina. One year later and Razgatlioglu scooped up 13 podiums on the privateer Ninja ZX-10RR, including his first two race wins.
After the departure of Razgatlioglu in 2020 the Puccetti effort was still racing in the WorldSBK category, with first Xavi Fores (2020) and then Lucas Mahias (2021 and 2022).
A tough but ambitious 2023 season, with former World Champion Tom Sykes starting the season inside the Superbike team, led to Tito Rabat joining later in the season, and then staying on to ride a more closely supported WorldSBK one rider effort last year.
Now, in 2025, American rider Garrett Gerloff has joined what is now called the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team, to take on the challenge of WorldSBK mounted on a Ninja ZX-10RR that was still capable of winning races in the 2024, in the hands of Alex Lowes.
The journey of Puccetti from a small team racing in the Stock 600 and then WorldSSP championships has been on an almost consistently upward curve, culminating in taking over the baton as Kawasaki’s lead WorldSBK team this year.
Kawasaki WorldSSP Team Racing really began for the Puccetti team when team principal Manuel Puccetti commenced his racing career way back in 1996. International competition for the team began in the European Supersport championship in 2005. Subsequent and repeated success in domestic CIV championship racing led to wildcard rides in Stock 600, WorldSSP and then full global participation with the support of the Italian federation.
After some excellent results for a national level team in the WorldSSP category as occasional one event entries, no less of a racing legend than Kenan Sofuoglu joined the WorldSSP squad at the end of the 2014 season.
Both new WorldSSP regular Sofuoglu and the team’s Superstock 600 rider Toprak Razgatlioglu won their respective championships inside the WorldSBK paddock in 2015. In 2016, Sofuoglu won the WorldSSP championship once again, while young talent Axel Bassani ensured victory for the team its fourth consecutive Stock600 Championship inside the WorldSBK scene.
In the WorldSSP category Manuel Puccetti's team has won two world titles with Kenan Sofuoglu, and a total of 69 podiums - of which 23 were victories - with riders like Randy Krummenacher, Lucas Mahias, Phillip Oettl, Yari Montella and Can Öncü.
On the same models of Ninja ZX-6R - although in a more standard specification than WorldSSP - Kawasaki Puccetti Racing has won four European-based Stock600 titles - with Franco Morbidelli, Marco Faccani, Toprak Razgatlioglu and Axel Bassani. Of 31 podium finishes in this class, 16 were race victories.
Now with a former Moto2 competitor and Moto3 race winner in control of the revised and larger engined Ninja ZX-6R 636 to get the most out of, much is expected from the combination of the newly renamed Kawasaki WorldSSP Team and their exciting new riding talent, Jeremy Alcoba.