Josh Waters who will be riding for Yoshimura Suzuki in another of their selected appearances in the World Superbike championship in round five of the season and will be testing at Miller Motorsports Park next Monday and Tuesday.

The Australian Superbike rider debuted with the Yoshimura team at the opening round in February taking an 18th and 13th place at Phillip Island.

Waters will be testing for American Suzuki (Yoshimura USA), with the Rockstar Makita Suzuki team alongside Tommy Hayden and Blake Young as they prep for the AMA’s round 2 at Infineon Raceway and for round 3 at MMP, that will be held in junction with the World Superbike Championship, May 28-30.

Waters is skipping this weekend’s ASBK round in Western Australia, where he’s currently fifth in the standings.

Source | bikeracing.it

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Yoshimura Suzuki will probably taking part in another couple of World Superbike rounds this season, folllowing their wildward outing with Josh Waters during last weekend’s races at Phillip Island.

Waters finished 18th in the first race due to a bad front tire, but in race two rode to 13th for the Japanese team, scoring three points and this result has prompted Yoshimura’s Fujio Yoshimura to want his team to wildcard in other rounds with the Australian champion, before a possible full time entry in 2012.

“Josh showed he has the potential,” declared Yoshimura. “I have told him we’d like him to ride again in America at Miller Motorsports Park. It’s a good start for the team and Josh and we will both get better,” he added.

In the meantime Waters will be racing this weekend in the Australian Superbike round at Symmons Plains in Tasmania.

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It looks like Yoshimura Suzuki has had a small change of heart or their economic situation is getting slightly rosier, because the team will be making another wildcard appearance in the 2011 WSBK season opener at Phillip Island.

The Yoshi team was to compete in three wild card races in 2010, while planning to race on full time basis in the 2011 championship, but after their debut at Monza had to pull out of the Imola and Magny-Cours rounds and put all their international racing plans on hold due to the hard hitting economic crisis.

This time the bike will not have Daisaku Sakai or Yukio Kagayama as riders, but by Josh Waters, the 2009 Australian Superbike champion.

Source | motosprint.it

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