The 27 year-old Anthony West replaced the injured Olivier Jacque in the Kawasaki team halfway through the 2007 season. The Valencia race on Sunday will be his last appearance for Kawasaki and Anthony hopes to finish with one last good result.

West hasn’t achieved the results he was expecting in MotoGP, and next year will ride somewhere else, but with the aspiration to return to MotoGP one day. About the Valencia race he says: “We’ve been missing something all year, and that means we’ve been less competitive than we were expecting. Realistically it will be difficult to run at the front in Valencia, but a top ten finish should be achievable. I’m only one point behind Marco Melandri in the championship standings, and I hope I can pull in enough points in the last race to beat the rider who’ll replace me at Kawasaki next season.”

Anthony West, was born in Maryborough. The Australian rider started racing at an early in dirt-track. He moved to road racing and won the Australian 250 production title in 1998, was 3rd in the 125 Championship and qualified for the Australian Grand Prix. West continued and went to the Shell Advance Honda Team in 2000, finishing at 6th overall. Today Anthony is riding in the Kawasaki factory team and is at 18th position with 50 points.

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In an article in Motorsprint’s weekly magazine, Anthony West who will be leaving Motogp for theSupersport series riding a Honda for Team Stiggy, had a few words about his 2008 season and team.

I hope Melandri doesn’t come to Kawasaki too charged up, because he’ll soon realize that if Kawasaki doesn’t change radically he’ll find himself at the bottom of the standings, again. The situation in Kawasaki is embarrassing as mine has been throughout the year. I thank Kawasaki for having given me the chance to race in MotoGP, but they’ve got do something otherwise they’ll never come out of it.

According to West, next year’s single tire rule will worsen the situation in Kawasaki:

With our bike we’ve never been able to use the tyres used by Rossi and Stoner, I tried them at Brno, and I would have liked to use them at Misano, but we weren’t able anymore. We use a front that no one else uses. Maybe Suzuki is in as bad a shape as we are …

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After losing his Kawasaki seat to Marco Melandri and having no other offers in Motogp, Anthony West will be returning to
World Supersport and will be riding for Team Stiggy Motorsport Honda.

“Im very happy to be joining the Stiggy team. Stiggy is a friend an old team-mate from 2003 in 250GP. I remember saying to him one day that he should start his own team because none of the other teams knew how to do it right, and to my surprise he did! Over the last couple of years I heard from everybody in the industry that the Stiggy team it’s one of the better ones in the championship. To have a team boss that knows what it’s like to race and knows what racing is all about is just great! After a difficult year in MotoGP I need to race on a bike that can win, and in Supersport together with team Stiggy I can. For 2009 I have only one goal - To win! ”

West made a big mark as a replacement rider in this series in 2007, taking 2 wins and a 3rd place.

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On a wet track, Anthony West has often been described as a magician in the rain, but in this video he slides along the track, finishing in the sand. Only that he managed to activate automatic pilot on the bike, which finished safe and sound, but lonely without its rider.

Apparently the Australian rider was seen a few hours later in an autogrill on the A14. For the video click here or on the photo.

Thanks to max the best.

Continue reading: Video: Anthony West and his crazy bike

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