Makoto Tamada is Pro Ride’s sole rider for this 2010 World Superbike season, but team skipped the first round at Phillip Island due to logistics problems, but now we have the latest rumor coming from Racesport.
nl that the Japanese rider could be replacing the injured Austrian rider Roland Resch in BMW Reitwagen team for the Portimao round.
Tamada and his team did not take part in any of the official tests and we’ve haven’t heard if they did any private testing, so if this rumor should be true, it could mean that Pro Ride is once again facing serious economic problems and just like in 2009 after announcing that they would be competing in the championship with Gregorio Lavilla, had to pull out even before putting two wheels on any track.
Former World Supersport rider Barry Veneman who tested with the BMW Motorrad Motorsport at Valencia, was another rider who was named to replace Resch has decided to continue racing in the German IDM with the BMW Alpha Technik/Van Zon team and will wait till next year before making an eventual jump to the World Superbike series.