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Former full-time MotoGP riders Tohru Ukawa and Olivier Jacques are entered as wild cards in next weekend’s Grand Prix of Japan at Motegi Twin-Ring, according to the FIM.

Dorna is reporting that HRC official test rider and former MotoGP race winner Ukawa will race the 2005 version of the Honda RC211V at the Honda-owned track.

Jacque, the 2000 250cc World Champion, who rode for Gauloises Yamaha in 2003, will ride a Moriwaki MD211VF on Dunlops.

The Motegi race was not one of the five wild card entries Moriwaki announced it had acquired for the 2004 season.

Moriwaki normally fields 2001 World Supersport Champion Andrew Pitt on its Honda V5-powered prototype. There has been no announcement as to why Jacque is riding for Moriwaki at Motegi and not Pitt.

Riding in a one-race deal, Pitt piloted a Belgarda Yamaha YZF-R6 to third in the World Supersport race at Assen, September 5.