British fans of the World Superbike Championship should get ready to set their alarm clocks for the Phillip Island curtain-raiser later this month - with Eurosport set to provide comprehensive live coverage once again
"Doctors said that the strain would have made it difficult for me to hang on to the bike and control it for the whole race, so they had to declare me unfit" - Loris Capirossi.
HM Plant Honda BSB riders Josh Brookes and Ryuichi Kiyonari will return to World Superbike action after being granted wild-card rides for the Silverstone round on August 1.
Confident that he has recovered sufficiently from the broken collarbone he suffered at Phillip Island back in February, Roland Resch is preparing to return to the World Superbike Championship fray with Team Reitwagen BMW in Valencia this weekend
Previous reports about the Hungarian Grand Prix have proven correct and the Balatonring event, due to make its delayed MotoGP debut in 2010, has now been 'cancelled'.