Competition for Spies... other than Maladin
 

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2008/S...onington+debut

AMA Superbike star Ben Spies has been confirmed as Rizla Suzuki´s replacement rider for next weekend´s bwin.com British Grand Prix, standing in for the injured Loris Capirossi. The 23 year-old thus brings forward his MotoGP debut, originally scheduled for the series´ two American visits to Laguna Seca and Indianapolis.

I called it! Soon as the article was released bout Loris I said this might be Spies's shot to hit the big leagues...good for him, lets see what he can do.

I think that he is going to do good.Top 10 for sure.

It will be interesting to see how he does.
Ken

nice can't wait!

Niceeee

Awesome, that bike and his AMghey Suzuki are nothing alike obviously, and he doesn't know the track but still, this is exciting fo sho.

The Yosh GSXR is probably a better bike then the Risla GP bike...lol

Ya I heard his bike will be underpowered but it will be good testing for the US GP's.

i still think he'd be better off in WSBK. You might actually hear his name mentioned if he ran there when he made a podium. Well, i guess if Nicky can do it but to have a potent american in WSBK would have been nice.

I still think next season we are going to see some americans move over to WSBK. They've been saying all year that a bunch of guys, (zemke, hayes, even the bostrom boys) are campaigning to get over there.

that group is just going to embarrass us.... Maybe Hayes will do ok. Thats it, i'm going to get a decent pair of leathers and go do it myself.

I think Jake and Josh will do extremely well. Not so much the B Bros. IF the DMG don't straighten out the classes for next year... You may not see a whole lot of good rider in the AMA series at all!!!!

Spies qualified #8. Even ahead of Pedrosa. Granted, it was in the rain. But still very impressive.