The 27 year-old Anthony West replaced the injured Olivier Jacque in the Kawasaki team halfway through the 2007 season.
The Valencia race on Sunday will be his last appearance for Kawasaki and Anthony hopes to finish with one last good result.
West hasn’t achieved the results he was expecting in MotoGP, and next year will ride somewhere else, but with the aspiration to return to MotoGP one day.
About the Valencia race he says: “We’ve been missing something all year, and that means we’ve been less competitive than we were expecting.
Realistically it will be difficult to run at the front in Valencia, but a top ten finish should be achievable.
I’m only one point behind Marco Melandri in the championship standings, and I hope I can pull in enough points in the last race to beat the rider who’ll replace me at Kawasaki next season.
” Anthony West, was born in Maryborough.
The Australian rider started racing at an early in dirt-track.
He moved to road racing and won the Australian 250 production title in 1998, was 3rd in the 125 Championship and qualified for the Australian Grand Prix.
West continued and went to the Shell Advance Honda Team in 2000, finishing at 6th overall.
Today Anthony is riding in the Kawasaki factory team and is at 18th position with 50 points.
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