IRTA and MSMA have finally come to their senses and have decided to increase the number of MotoGP testing days for the 2011 season.
The teams and riders had been asking more testing day since the 2009 and 2010 rules went into effect and cut the number of testing days to only six official days in the pre-season and four post-race days in the name of cost saving.
In order to contain espenses and travelling costs the number of testing days will be lengthened at each venue.
The two days of testing after the last race of season at Valencia has been confirmed, Jerez at the end of November will see three days and Sepang 1 in the first week of February will have three days and Sepang 2 at the end of February, a further three days.
Qatar will have two days, the 13th and 14th of March (which also has been confirmed) before the first race of the season and Monday post-race tests will be held at Jerez, Catalunya and Brno.
Honda was asking for testing days at Phillip Islang between the two Sepang tests, but the other factories nixed the request.