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FIM has announced the wild card riders for the MotoGP event at Catalunya in Spain and the World Superbike round at Silverstone in England, both scheduled for this coming weekend, June 13-15.

Kawasaki’s Akira Yanagawa will be the only MotoGP wild card at Catalunya, but many of the British Superbike Championship regulars will take part in the Silverstone World Superbike races.

Team Renegade Ducati’s Michael Rutter and Sean Emmett, Rizla Suzuki’s John Reynolds and Yukio Kagayama and D&B Ducati Racing’s Dean Ellison have received wild card entries for the Silverstone World Superbike round, according to the FIM.

Notably absent from the list of World Superbike wild card entries is runaway British Superbike Championship leader Monster Mob Ducati’s Shane Byrne. After 10 of 24 scheduled races, Byrne leads the British Championship by 104 points over second place Rutter.

Byrne has won eight of the first 10 races and placed second in the two races he did not win.