Buzzin MotoGP

Marco Melandri

It has been announced that Marco Melandri, who is currently riding for Ducati, will be joining the Kawasaki team in 2009 after a miserable 2008 season.

However, the 2008 season still has six races left to run and the rider said in a report,

“I hope to get good results in the last six races of 2008, and after that I am moving to another team.  I will ride for Kawasaki next year, so it’s a big change for me.

Hopkins is a very good rider and maybe he needs a stronger teammate to be a bit more motivated.  Maybe I also need this kind of company to be motivated a little bit more, because I really want to work closely together with a teammate.  It will be a good experience and I am quite confident.

It would have been a nice option to back to Fausto (Gresini), I had a very good time with him and he has always helped me a lot.

This year we’ve been talking together, but for me, I’ve been looking at Kawasaki and they seem very good.  The engineers and people there give me a good feeling just to talk to them, so that’s what I want to do.”

Anthony West, achieved his career’s best finish at the recent Czech Republic Grand Prix with a fifth place on the Ninja ZX-RR after qualifying in sixth place on the grid.

Hopkins started the race well from the front row of the grid making his way up to third position but then struggled for rear grip finally finishing in eleventh place.