Personal opinion: lets hope he can stay in the points….
Birthdate: November 4th, 1976 Birthplace: Ehime, Japan
Height/Weight: 171cm/60kg
WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team
1995 All Japan Road Race Championship Debut
2003 FIM Road Race World Championship (MotoGP) Debut
2004 2 Wins at Rio GP and Japan GP
2008 World Superbike Championship from Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse
Race Profile
1994 Kyushu Road Race Championship GP250 & SP250: Champion
1995 All Japan Road Race Championship GP250: Ranking 11th
1996 All Japan Road Race Championship GP250: Ranking 14th
1997 All Japan Road Race Championship GP250: Ranking 6th
1998 All Japan Road Race Championship GP250: Ranking 4th / Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race: 10th
1999 All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike: Ranking 5th / Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race: 8th
2000 All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike: Ranking 3rd / Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race: 43rd
2001 Superbike World Championship SUGO Round: Champion
All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike: Ranking 2nd
Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race: 4th
2002 Superbike World Championship SUGO Round: Champion
All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike: Ranking 4th
Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race: 2nd
2003 Road Race World Championship MotoGP Class: 11th（Mugello GP 4th, Rio GP 3rd）
2004 Road Race World Championship MotoGP Class: 6th (2 Wins at Rio GP and Japan GP; Portugal GP 2nd)
2005 Road Race World Championship MotoGP Class from Konica Minolta Honda
Road Race World Championship MotoGP Class: 11th（Japan GP 3rd）
2006 Road Race World Championship MotoGP Class: 12th
Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race: 5th
2007 Road Race World Championship MotoGP Class: 18th
2008 Superbike World Championship: 20th
Kawasaki World Superbike Team rider Broc Parkes enjoyed a better weekend when round two of the Hannspree World Superbike Championship took place at the Losail circuit in Doha, Qatar earlier today.
Riding for Paul Bird's team, the Australian not only managed a battling eleventh place start on the grid in the new Superpole format, but scored the team's first points of the campaign when he brought the Kawasaki ZX-10R into fourteenth place in the opening leg having run inside the top ten for much of the race until he lost traction towards the end of the race.
In race two, once again Parkes made a great start but was unable to sustain the pace and frustratingly, ended up just outside the points in sixteenth place but was happy to have made progress following on from the disappointment of Phillip Island two weeks ago.
Sadly for Japanese team-mate Makoto Tamada, once again he struggled in qualifying, securing 22nd place on the grid, but worse was to follow when he crashed in morning warm up which necessitated a hospital check up whereby he was diagnosed as having sustained heavy bruising to his hip and pelvic area with a suspected dislocation, broken thumb and left big toe and was declared not fit to race. He is hoping to be ready for the Valencia test in two weeks time.
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