It was a good debut on the Suzuki GSV-R for Álvaro Bautista at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit, as he made his first strides in MotoGP at the traditional Valencia test. Wednesday saw the Spaniard set his best lap on the third and final day with a 1.34.163, and Bautista will now travel to Estoril in Portugal with Rizla Suzuki team test rider Nobuatsu Aoki, as he continues his education on the machine... more.

That a sixth place result in the penultimate race of the season matches Chris Vermeulen’s second best result of 2009 so far speaks for itself in terms of the difficult time he has had this year, but the departing Rizla Suzuki man was pleased to have produced a competitive display in Malaysia on Sunday. Although the likeable Australian is departing from MotoGP to pastures new at the end of the... more.

Rizla Suzuki’s Loris Capirossi got the weekend of the Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix off to an encouraging start as he recorded the sixth fastest time around the 5.548km Sepang International Circuit in practice on Friday. The experienced Italian laid down a best effort of 2’03.253, leaving him a second adrift of pace-man Jorge Lorenzo, but confident of improving as the we... more.