Two-time German Superbike Champion Martin Bauer will make his MotoGP debut at the Brno round, riding a BMW-Suter package for the Remus Racing outfit.

Bauer tested alongside Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo at the Czech track last week and said he was only three seconds off the pace, adding there was more to come from the fledgling package.

"We could have performed a lot better and are quite capable of performing well in MotoGP. Being only three seconds behind Rossi in testing… not bad at all. You have to remember that the course at Brno is almost twice as long as the Sachsenring. Three seconds is not a long time for such a long distance," said Bauer.

"Naturally, I rode behind Rossi and Lorenzo a few times and watched how they positioned their bikes and where they are faster. It was interesting to see that they can’t work magic either. At the entrance or at the top of the curve there isn’t much between us, though there is a world of difference accelerating out of the corner.

"They have great traction and the bikes don’t hop, even with such tremendous power. Nothing shakes at all. The mechanical grip that they get from their chassis tuning is gigantic."