Season 2007 - Davies seals d'Antin ride

Eurosport - Sun, 30 Sep 15:22:00 2007
Britain's Chaz Davies will race in the final three Moto GP races of the season after signing a deal with the d'Antin Ducati team.
Davies, 20, was prevented from racing for the team in Japan after suffering a bad reaction to a tetanus jab he was given following a testing crash, but he has now been given the all-clear to replace veteran Shinichi Itoh for the events at Phillip Island, Sepang and Valencia.
"I am very excited to have another opportunity to race in MotoGP with Pramac D'Antin," said a delighted Davies. "I am also very grateful to the team and Ducati for giving me this opportunity.
"Phillip Island has been kind to me in the past with the 250cc so I hope this will transfer onto the MotoGP bike although I expect to have to learn many more things. Of course I will try my best and I hope to have a lot of fun!"
Davies, who has raced full-time in the American-based AMA Supersport and Formula Xtreme championships this year, was thrust into the spotlight when he was chosen by d'Antin to replace Alex Hofmann at the US Grand Prix in July after the German injured his hand in first practice.
Despite being informed he was wanted just 20 minutes before second practice, the former 125cc and 250cc tail-ender performed well, closing his lap-time deficit to team-mate Alex Barros from 1.5 seconds in that first session to just 0.2 in the race.