While waiting to receive the of racing version of their BMW, new World Superbike private racing team BMW Reitwagen Motorsport were at the Eastern Creek race track in Australia to try out a street version of the BMW S 1000 RR.

Andrew Pitt and Roland Resch, got a chance to ride for the first time the BMWmachine, but had to share since there was only one bike available. Both riders stated that they were satisfied by the potential of the bike.

“The speed and acceleration of the engine was very impressive for a standard bike and the standard gearbox was also very smooth and precise. It was like a race gearbox, or better. The bike does what you want it to do. They have done a great job on the standard bike for sure.” said Pitt.

Pitt did more laps than his teammate and did a best lap of 1’36 in the high summer temperatures in Australia. Present for this mini test were Peter Goddard, chassis engineer and Johan Stigefelt, technical manager.

Pitt and Resch will test the race-spec bike at Eastern Creek, starting February 8th.

Source | bikeracing

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Reitwagen Motorsport BMW has officially announced that Andrew Pitt, who signed a two year contract, will be riding with their new team, that will debut in the WSBK paddock next season. The team will be fielding BMW’s S 1000 RR and have already confirmed Austrian rider Roland Resch as their other rider.

The squad will be run by Alfred Inzinger and Johan ‘Stiggy’ Stigefelt, who just three days ago announced that he was pulling his WSBK and SS teams from the 2010 championship, will be the technical manager. Other key crew members from Stiggy’s ex team have also found a place in the team and former racer Peter Goddard will be working as the chassis engineer.

The Reitwagen Motorsport team are now preparing for their first test which will take place at the Eastern Creek circuit in Australia in January and then test at Phillip Island twice before the start of the season at the end of February, but will not be at the Portimao test.

Source | sbk

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According to Dutch website Racesport Aussie rider Andrew Pitt is lined up to be the second rider in the newly formed newly-formed Reitwagen Motorsport team that will debut next year in the World Superbike Championship.

The new team that will be fielding the first privately-run BMW S 1000 RR’s has already confirmed Austrian Roland Resch as one of their riders and is close to signing up the former 2001 World Supersport champion.

Pitt raced for Ten Kate Honda’s Supersport team in 2009 finishing 6th in the standings and was not confirmed for the 2010 season, with Ronald ten Kate preferring to sign-up Michele Pirro to contest the 2010 World Supersport championship on the Honda CBR600RR.

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