WorldSSP: Motozoo Racing confirms Booth-Amos

January 16, 2023 January 16, 2023

Tom Booth-Amos will race for Motozoo Racing in the World Supersport Championship in 2023 and will ride the Kawasaki ZX-6R.

British rider Booth-Amos will return to Motozoo racing for the 2023 season and will join forces with the Italian team. It will be his second year on the Kawasaki ZX-6R, as prepares to race with the Puccetti-supported squad.

It will be his second year in the class, and after finishing 23^rd in the World Championship, scoring 29 points previously. Booth-Amos would switch to the Motozoo team and get his best finish at Phillip Island, finishing eighth.

He will race alongside Australian Luke Power, who raced in the MotoAmerica championship in 2022. Power would finish his season in the states, with two podiums and fifth in the standings, onboard a Suzuki.

The 26-year-old wildcarded in the British Supersport championship with Gearlink Kawasaki at the end of 2022. Booth-Amos would finish fourth in both races at Donington park and fifth place at Brands Hatch.

Booth-Amos would spend four years on lower capacity bikes, racing in Grand Prix and Supersport 300. Achieving a best of second, in the 2021 World Supersport championship, with the title going to Adrian Huertas.

Tom Booth-Amos said: “I’m really very happy to compete in 2023 with Motozoo Racing on their Ninja ZX-6R as well. We only played the last three events of the season together, but with them I immediately found myself very well and we got excellent results.

“Although we had never done tests together, we were already very fast from Argentina and at every race it was a steady growth in performance. The team is really great, the bike just as well. I can’t wait for the engines to turn on.”

Fabio Uccelli, Team Manager of Motozoo Racing, added: “I’m really very happy to have confirmed Tom Booth-Amos for next season. With him, we got our best placements of 2022, playing together with the last three events of the season.

“He settled quickly with the new bike and the team, the results came immediately. He is a really very fast rider but at the same time he uses his head a lot, he has shown it, especially in moments when the track was slippery.

“In this 2023 we certainly have a well-assorted team, thanks to the presence of Tom, who already has experience in the world championship, having first played the SSP300 and now the SSP600 as the protagonist, and that of the Australian rider Luke Power, very young, but who has proven to be very fast and to grow just as fast. At his debut in America, he immediately managed to be among the protagonists. I’m sure we’re going to play a great championship!”

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