With John Hopkins still convalescent, Stiggy Racing Honda has called back Jake Zemke for the Miller Motorsports Park round of the World Superbike Championship on May 31. Zemke replaced Hopkins during the Monza round and finished 18th in Race 1 and 20th in Race 2. Hopkins won’t be able to ride, but will be present in the Stiggy garage.

Jamie Hacking has been called up to replace injured Makoto Tamada in the Paul Bird Motorsports Kawasaki Racing Team. Tamada ended up with a broken wrist during the pile-up in race 1 at Monza.

After Francis Batta’s PR move to try to get AMA superstar Matt Mladin to rider for Alstare Suzuki, the Belgian team manager had to settle on calling again Fonsi Nieto to take Max Neukirchner’s place for the USA round. Nieto’s name was also being linked to replace injured Sete Gibernau in the Grupo Francisco Hernando team at the Italian GP at Mugello.

Erwan Nigon will be taking David Checa’s place in Team Yamaha GMT 94 at Miller’s. Nigon came in second in last year’s French Superbike series and has also been Michelin’s test rider in MotoGP.

Lorenzo Lanzi will be subbing for the unfortunate Regis Laconi in Team DFX as team boss Daniel Carli announced during Italian show Paddock, Uomini e Corse (Paddock, Men and Racing). Lanzi was supposed to be called in for the Misano race, but Laconi’s injury anticipated his re-entry in the team.

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