The Kawasaki Racing Team enters the 2012 FIM MX1 World Motocross Championship with the strongest partnership since it was restructured under new management four years ago as outstanding young talent Gautier Paulin joins established team member Xavier Boog aboard the factory KX450F-SR.

When Thierry Chizat Suzzoni took over the reigns of the Kawasaki Racing Team at the end of 2008, the Frenchman was fully aware that neither business nor sporting success comes overnight and he set to work to build diligently a closely-knit workforce to put the green factory machines back on the top of the podium in the FIM MX1 World Motocross Championship.

Christophe and Sébastien Pourcel, one of the most illustrious brotherly duos in the history of motocross, are reunited in a single team for the first time since 2007 as they go for gold in the FIM MX1 World Motocross Championship for Team CP377 Monster Energy Kawasaki Pro Circuit this year.

The new squad is the MX1 division of the CLS Kawasaki team under direction of Jean Jacques Luisetti, owner of Floride Motos, one of Europe's top Kawasaki dealerships. It was decided early on to equip separate race trucks for the CP377 MX1 effort and the Floride MX2 team; the day-to-day activities of the MX1 team will be managed by Yann Lozano with Harry Nolte acting as technical supervisor for both teams.