Sheridan Morias in World Superbike at Kyalami

Going hard. Really hard. Hard enough to challenge!

Sheridan Morais is as well as competing in the National Superbike championship, also running a ZX6 Kawasaki in this year’s National Supersport championship. It seemed only natural that his father and tuning guru Ricky would prepare a bike for the World Supersport round at Kyalami.

There was a press conference on the Thursday before the race and Sheridan was sitting there as I walked in. He told me that he was on a Superbike for the Weekend. I asked him if he was riding his own bike, he said “No, I’m on the Vent Axia bike.” For those of you that don’t know, Vent Axia is the factory backed Kawasaki team for 2009. With Mokoto Tamada injured after a crash at Monza, Sheridan, with the help of Kawasaki South Africa, got the wild card ride on the Kawasaki. He graciously handed his 600 over to Robert Portman.

I asked Shez how the bike felt, he said, “I don’t know, I haven’t sat on it yet”.

Sheridan rode the bike in anger for the first time on Friday in free practice. He was 7^th on the timesheets with a 1:40.502, which is nothing short of amazing. I again asked him what the bike felt like compared to his, he said completely different but the most surprising was the brakes, “I thought my teeth were going to come out the first time I braked”. He adds; “I can’t get to grips with the electronics so I have switched everything off”. No electronics and he managed to be 7^th fastest with just his throttle hand, oh and track knowledge of course.

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