The 23rd consecutive year of International Motorcycle sports.
The Dutch owned team
DOCSHOP RACING
entered international motorcycle racing in 1986 starting in the Dutch
National
Championship competing in the 250cc and 500cc class and in the 125cc World
Championship. In 1987
the first title was gained with Dutch National Champion
Gerard van der Wal in the 250cc class
Under the leadership of Team manager Henk van Asselt,
over the past 22 years
DOCSHOP RACING
has grown into an internationally acknowledged professional racing team with an
excellent infrastructure
and technical expertise.
Many different nationalities have been a part of the
team,recognized by several
big names in motorcycle racing who rode under the
DOCSHOP RACING
banner in the World Championship 125 cc, like Olivier Liegeois, Lucio
Pietroniro, Akira Saito, Noboru Ueda and Masaki Tokudome as well as in in
the World Championship 250 cc, like Jean-Michel Mattioli, Rene Delaby, Wilco
Zeelenberg, Gary Cowan,Dutch brothers Patrick and Jurgen van den Goorbergh,
Niall Mackenzie, Jamie Robinson, Jürgen Fuchs and Marcellino Lucchi
DOCSHOP RACING gained several pole positions and over 10 top three
places in both classes.
1997
DOCSHOP RACING
stayed in the 2-stroke classes
competing in the IDM (International German Championship) and since the year 2000
the team is one of the main contenders. Two 125cc titles were gained with Maik
Stief and Dirk Reissmann and two times in a row the 250 cc title was gained with
Matthias Neukirchen.
2003 until 2007
DOCSHOP RACING
moved up to the 4-stoke classes
as the Official Importers team for
Kawasaki
Germany
and during this time
Kawasaki
was added into the teams name:
Kawasaki
DOCSHOP RACING.
During the year 2003 European
Champion Kai-Børre Andersen was contracted to compete in the
Supersport 600 class on the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6RR. After the 3rd place in
the Lausitzring in 2003, the bike was further developed and in 2004 there
were a further 6 podium places, two wins and three pole positions in the last three
races, resulting in a 3rd place in the championship, only 1 point behind the
champion. In 2005 after 6 consecutive pole positions (9
in
a row) 6
podium places and 4 wins Kawasaki
DOCSHOP RACING
and Kai-Børre Andersen became IDM
Supersport Champion! The same year the team was extended with the famous
Swedish Superbike rider Jimmy Lindström, who reached as a rooky in
Germany
a credited 10th place on a developing ZX-10R. For 2006 double
German Champion Stefan Nebel was brought into the team to concentrate on the
Superbikes further development and after several podium places a fabulous 4th
place was the final result for the championship, putting
Kawasaki
back up the sharp end ! The Norwegian youngster Christoffer Nilsen during
2006 was on the Supersport hunt,riding an impressive 7th overall
in his first year.

2007 saw the contract with
Kawasaki
Germany expire,
leaving
DOCSHOP RACING
to find other support from one of the major motorcycle manufacturers within Germany but with
all of the other major teams already finalised for 2007 meant that the team
could no longer be competitive for 2007.The last two years we have mainly focused on
D.A.R.E Events teaching motorcyclists from all levels how to
ride fast and secure on a closed race track with them benefiting and becoming a
more advanced rider and with the decades of experience within International
Motorcycle Sports passing on to the participants. This started in 1998
sidelining the Team under the name
D.A.R.E.
(Docshop
Advanced
Riding
Events).
2008 we extended our program to deliver professional clothing, accessories,
parts, tyres,etc as used by DOCSHOP RACING during
competition and events.This department is
called
D.A.R.E.-M.O.R.E.-products
(DARE-Motorcycle
Online Riding Equipment). It consists of a
complete line of exclusive motorsport
articles from our highly professional partners of
DOCSHOP RACING-
D.A.R.E..