Meanwhile, in the AMA...

[gm2]

jordan announced that Yates has be re-signed to ride American Superbike.  also included is mention of Suzuki, so apparently that mess got straightened out.

...probably straightened out because we now have indirect, but reliable, confirmation that Yosh will return to the AMA grid in '09, with Mladin and Blake Young (and tommy hayden, presumably).

and magic still intends to field a team, even after the loss of Joe Lopez.

[gm2]

so... old news: disalvo went to m4 with cardenas, hacking and roger lee confirmed for attack kawi 600s... no kawi liter bikes this year, rapp and holden apparently didn't find a chair when the music stopped (now rapp is on a privateer ape), hodgson confirmed for corona honda - but with a factory crew, yosh is for sure mladin/tommy hayden/blake young, chaz davies on a rsvr 1k in the sportbike class (thanks new DMG rules), no mention of duhamel anywhere.

they were testing in fontana this week.  day 1 tommy hayden is fastest, day 2 hodgson.  tho on day 2 no reported times from the yosh guys; they tested on monday before everyone else and didn't participate on wednesday.

and hacking on a 98% bone stock zx6r is faster than all the other 600s.  uh oh.

http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=35481
http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=35498

[Speeddog]

OK, I'm mystified.....

“For not being on a bike is just over five months I feel great,” Hacking told Roadracingworld.com.

Was he prevented from riding by AMA restrictions, was he hurt, or what?

Because that seems like a bad plan to me unless he had a real reason he couldn't ride.

[gm2]

probably just off-season.  and he does a lot of car stuff.

it's not like he needs practice on the bike...