MotoGP – Ben Spies is no longer worried about his "weight"

Ben Spies, 2009 Superbike world champion and new Team Tech3 Yamaha rider in MotoGP, had some apprehensions about his "size" and "weight". In fact, the American weighs 70kg, 4 more than Valentino Rossi and this had given him more than one "thought". If you think about Casey Stoner and especially Dani Pedrosa, his "thoughts" were justified; In fact, the Spaniard weighs 20 kg less than the American!!

“I was worried at the beginning about my weight – Spies told MCN – and I will probably have to lose a kilo or two for next year. Now I weigh 70 kilos, only three or four more than Valentino Rossi. I'm on the same bike, and looking at the speed obtained in Valencia I think you could have been less fast (in the last round of the 2009 world championship Spies achieved the sixth best average speed and his top speed was only one km/h lower than that of Rossi). Now that I'm in MotoGP I understand that it won't be a big problem, especially compared to what I thought."