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Garry McCoy, Andrew Pitt and Alex Hoffman tested with Fuchs Kawasaki at Valencia today.

Two different versions of the Ninja ZX-RR MotoGP racebike were seen at Valencia on Tuesday, one with conventional exhaust pipe placement and one with the exhaust system routed up underneath the seat.

McCoy has signed to ride for Kawasaki in 2003; Pitt is also thought to have signed, with Hoffman in line to ride for Kawasaki’s MotoGP test team.

Yamaha also tested at Valencia today, with Carlos Checa, Shinya Nakano, Olivier Jacque and new signing Alex Barros.

The Kawasaki team will run on Dunlop tires while all the official Yamaha teams use Michelin.

On Monday at Valencia, journalists rode various Honda racebikes, ranging from the RC211V and NSR500 MotoGP racebikes to Colin Edwards’ Superbike World Championship-winning RC51 to the CBR600F4i ridden to the 2002 Supersport World Championship by Fabien Foret. Included among the “journalists” were former 500cc GP star Randy Mamola and former 250cc GP racer Jurgen Fuchs.

Wednesday, Ducati takes over the track for the first of two days of scheduled testing with the Desmosedici MotoGP racebike, with riders Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi.