American Jason DiSalvo has agreed to terms that will put him on a Triumph Daytona 675 in the 2010 FIM Supersport World Championship for the ParkinGO Triumph BE1 Racing factory Triumph team. It had been previously reported elsewhere that the team would continue with Australian Garry McCoy and add England’s Chaz Davies in the new season, but McCoy and the team apparently could not come to terms, opening the door for DiSalvo, who turns 26 on February 9. “The team contacted me last week completely out of the blue,” DiSalvo told Roadracingworld.com. “I thought, ‘This has got to be some kind of mistake.'” DiSalvo said that he and his father, Jim DiSalvo, who serves as his manager, have been working hard since the end of the 2009 season to find racing opportunities for 2010. Thanks to the global recession and difficult times in the AMA series, where DiSalvo has spent the last eight seasons, those opportunities proved to be few and far between. The only things they found, said the younger DiSalvo, were teams happy to provide a bike to race if the rider brought sponsorship to cover a significant portion of the operating budget. “And then to have a factory team just say, ‘we’d love to have you come ride,’ it was totally awesome,” said DiSalvo. “It was very sudden and unexpected but at the same time very welcomed.” Asked what he knew about McCoy’s status with the team, DiSalvo said didn’t know anything and he initially thought he would be teammates with McCoy. “Nevertheless, I’m pumped to be teamed up with Chaz,” said DiSalvo. In addition to racing against Davies during the 2009 AMA Pro Daytona SportBike Championship (in which DiSalvo took fifth with six podium results, including third in the Daytona 200), he and Davies used to race 125cc GP bikes against each other in England and Europe many years ago. “I remember one weekend in Spain. We were running a Spanish Championship round. I think we were at Valencia. It was me and my folks, Chaz and his folks and Casey Stoner and his folks, and us kids were running around causing havoc. “I’m really looking forward to working together with Chaz to develop the bike and getting great results for the team.” Tomorrow, DiSalvo leaves for Portugal, where he will officially sign his contract with the team and then test his new bike alongside the rest of the Supersport field at Portimao over the weekend. “I’m really looking forward to getting on the Triumph and checking it out for myself,” said DiSalvo. “It looks like such an awesome bike.”