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'To link up again with an important technical partner like Showa is a source of pride and great satisfaction for Team San Carlo Honda Gresini' - Fausto Gresini

Marco Melandri explains why he switched to Showa suspension for the Le Mans MotoGP event

Repsol Honda's Andrea Dovizioso will switch to Ohlins suspension on his factory RC212V for this weekend's San Marino Grand Prix and the rest of the 2009 season.

Repsol Honda remained non-committal about the chances of Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso racing with Ohlins suspension, after trying the brand back-to-back with existing Showa parts during Monday's Brno test, while over at Gresini Honda Toni Elias tried a new Showa frotn fork.

Manuel Olivencia is Dani Pedrosa's Showa suspension technician.

The Showa Corporation has become a team technical partner of BAR Honda. The company will supply suspension dampers to the team and feature on the livery of the new BAR Honda 007.