Sport Rider Photos
After thinking that he might be sitting at home in '09 when Kawasaki initially announced its withdrawal from MotoGP, Marco Melandri found himself at the Qatar pre-season test riding the barely-tested '09 version of the ZX-RR. His initial impressions of the machine were good, but the lack of testing showed in his times that were at the bottom of the leaderboard.
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