After Casey Stoner’s withdrawl from the next three MotoGP races due to chronic fatigue, there’s been a lot of fan requests that Ducati try to persuade Troy Bayliss to come out of retirement and take his fellow countryman’s place.

Many nostalgics would like to see a repeat of what happened at Valencia in 2006, but unfortunately for fans,Bayliss doesn’t want to return to motorcycle racing and except for helping out Ducati in testing GP bikes or superbikes occasionally, he seems to be more interested in trying out V8 cars.

This time Bayliss tested the Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden Commodore at Winton Motor Raceway during the team’s Driver Evaluation Day earlier this week.

Troy Bayliss on his test:

“It was a great experience. I came along yesterday and went and had a look at the Kelly Racing set-up and it’s a great facility. It’s on par with the best that I’ve seen, that’s for sure. They’ve done a great job. The guys asked me along to come and do a few laps and it’s nice because it’s been a long time since I’ve been at Winton. It was 1997 on a Superbike.”

“I really enjoyed driving the Jack Daniel’s Commodore… and it’s actually my first time with a lot of other cars out on the track, I haven’t done much in the V8 at all so it was a good experience today. By the second stint out there it was not looking so bad and I felt OK. I’m feeling not too bad in the car.”

“Everybody knows what I really want to do. I’m chasing that next step in my career. I’d loved to be involved in the V8s, whether it’s in the main game or as a Development driver. There are so many young guys who probably want to be world champions in their future, but I’m not thinking of being a world champion anymore.”

“I’d love to be in the main game and I’d love to win some races, but also I’d love to do the enduros and of course Bathurst is a very big race and something that I’ve been watching for many years. I’d love to take part in that race and do well in it.”

Source | v8supercars

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