Portuguese Star Luis Carreira to Race at the 2011 IOMTT

Four-times Portuguese Stocksport1000 Champion, Luis Carreira has confirmed plans to race at this year’s Isle of Man TT races, thanks to a deal signed with the CD Racing team. In 2010, the 34-year-old racer recorded his best-ever lap of the Mountain with a speed of 124.754 mph (200 km/h). That speed makes him the 32nd fastest rider of all time.

In 2011 he plans to contest the Dainese Superbike and Pokerstars Senior races on one of the all-new ZX-10R Kawasaki prepared by MSS Kawasaki, the UK’s factory Kawasaki outfit.

Carreira will also be Kawasaki-mounted for the Royal London Superstock TT, but on a Yamaha YZF-R6 for the two Monster Energy Supersport races.

“I am really looking forward to returning to the Isle of Man and I’d also like to thank Chris for this opportunity. We have some good bikes and I think that we can do a good job. I can promise everyone that I will work hard to be able to reward everyone with good results in all races. Lastly I want to thank team Benimoto for their honesty and the support that they gave me with this decision,” stated Luis Carreira.

“Everyone in the team is really excited to be bringing Luis on board. He has massive potential to make a real impression on the top 10 at this year’s TT and we will be putting everything we can into him to achieve that. We are grateful for the ongoing support from our loyal sponsors as well as the essential assistance from Nick Morgan at MSS Kawasaki,” CD Racing Team boss Chris Dowd said.