The highly-anticipated announcement that Ben Spies will move to the Monster Yamaha MotoGP team in 2010 has finally turned up, confirming the Texan will join Colin Edwards next season.
As revealed by bikesportnews.com on Monday, Spies will replace James Toseland in the team and will take both his current crew chief Tom Houseworth and mechanic Greg Wood.
"I want to thank Yamaha globally for their faith in me. They have treated me like royalty! Yamaha just recently allowed me to rethink my contract for 2010-2011; I did sign for WSB for 2010 but after Indy I began thinking of the competition and my age versus waiting until 2011," said Spies.
"This was not an easy decision, the Yamaha World Superbike Team crew and especially Massimo (Maio) Meregalli have been fantastic and it's been great fun to put in a season together. I am hoping that I can give Maio, Laurens Klein Koerkamp and everyone else a championship to remember this year with me."
