The second Supersport Kawasaki in Emil Weber's team will remain unmanned at the Öhlins IDM race on the first weekend of September. The team boss had been hoping for a guest appearance by Randy Krummenacher. However, the 2019 Supersport World Champion will stay home in his adopted country of Italy.
Ever since 16-year-old racer Valentino Herrlich left the Kawasaki Weber Racing team two weeks ago, just before the races in Assen, team boss Emil Weber has been searching for an experienced rider to help move the IDM project forward, which has been progressing rather slowly. Instead of putting another young rider on the now-vacant Ninja ZX-6R, Weber was hoping to pair his regular rider, Luca Göttlicher, with an experienced rider whom he could look up to.
A vertebral fracture sidelined Krummenacher
That’s not going to happen, at least not at the Nürburgring. Weber reached out to his Swiss compatriot Randy Krummenacher, but the 35-year-old Supersport World Champion turned him down. “We were in talks because we’ve known each other for years and Emil has always stood by me and supported me. The IDM ride would have been tempting, but I’m injured and haven’t been cleared to race,” explains the father of three.
Krummi began his second full season in the World Endurance Championship in 2025. He races for the EWC team Tati AVA6 Racing on a Honda CBR 1000 RR-R. During practice ahead of the Spa 8 Hours race, the former Grand Prix rider suffered a serious crash. He fractured his sixth vertebra. Krummenacher has thus been in a lengthy recovery phase since early June.
“We’re focusing 100 percent on Luca at the Nürburgring,” Weber said. “He just posted his best result of the season so far at Assen. There’s definitely more to come.”
