Repsol YPF

Next week the Italian rider will get another chance to ride his new official Honda motorbike at the practice sessions scheduled at the circuit in Jerez, Spain. Dovizioso is very pleased with this new challenge and he is very satisfied with how things are going in his new team. The Repsol team`s latest signing is already planning the forthcoming season.

The 2009 pre-season got off the ground on 27th October at the Ricardo Tormo circuit, in Valencia Spain. The very same venue where the 2008 World Championship had ended the day before. The next practice session will not be held too far away from there either. The Spanish track of Jerez will host three new sessions of training, between 26th–28th November. This is because the teams are working flat out to prepare for the next and very different World Championship – with just one tyre supplier.

In spite of being on holiday Dani Pedrosa has his mind fixed on the forthcoming season, when he will have one overriding objective, to gain “consistency and regularity”. The Repsol rider will be fighting for the world title next year having finished third this year, after a string of setbacks dotted throughout the whole year ruined his title chances.

The Spanish rider Toni Elías has surgery pending as he has to have an operation to extract a steel plate that he had inserted at the end of the 2007 season. However, both the rider and his team have decided to postpone the date with the doctors and take part in the tests at the end of November at the circuit of Jerez.