Honda rider Marco Melandri is definitely out of Malaysia with 30 stitches in his heel. The good news is that he should be back for Qatar.

Troy Bayliss' arm injury sounds unusually bad, with a total of twenty screws used to repair it. Will Troy ride again this year?

Usually reliable sources say that Chris Vermeulen will ride Bayliss's Camel Honda for the last three rounds of the MotoGP season (the World Superbike season will have ended then).

The young Aussie would therefore start at his home track in Phillip Island, go to Turkey where no-one has raced before and finish at Valencia—where he has raced on Superbikes.