On the opening day of the bwin.com Grande Prmio de Portugal it was Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo who set the pace in MotoGP free practice with a best time of 1’37.185s in the closing stages, after heading the timesheet for most of the session.
Ben Spies will be moving to MotoGP in 2010 with Tech 3 Yamaha, the Texan recently signing a two-year deal with Yamaha, which originally planned for him to remain in World Superbike for one more year before moving to MotoGP in 2011, but Spies and Yamaha together have decided to advance the move by one year.
As reported in yesterday's Racing Insider, just a few days after securing the British Superbike title, Leon Camier has announced he will compete in the Magny-Cours round of the Superbike World Championship aboard the Aprilia RSV4 this weekend.
