There will be two Rizla Suzuki GSV-R prototypes on track at Brno this weekend as American rider John Hopkins joins Álvaro Bautista on the MotoGP team. Hopkins, who finished tenth at Jerez for the team earlier this season when he filled in for the injured Bautista, will now ride alongside the Spaniard as a wild card at the Cardion ab Grand Prix Ceské republiky.
Bautista will be aiming to recover the form that delivered him a seventh-placed finish at Sachsenring before a crash in the previous round at Laguna Seca, whilst Hopkins returns to the site of his best-ever MotoGP result having taken second for Rizla Suzuki at Brno in 2007.
