Lorenzo Alfonsi is the new rider for the Team Pro Ride Real Game Honda Pro Ride Motorsports officially communicates that Raffaele de Rosa is not anymore the rider for the Pro Ride Real Game Honda, our team at the World Superbike Championship. We have taken Raffaele decision and we wish him a lot of success in his professional career. However the presence of the Tuscan team at the World Superbike Championship goes on, and the Italian rider Lorenzo Alfonsi will be the one who will defend Pro Ride colors from Imola race on. The agreement was made last Saturday at Pro Ride headquarters in Lucca and we are happy to keep with the project started in Phillip Island last February. Last Thursday the cases with the racing structure arrived from Australia and our staff started to assemble the bike for this re-start and new challenge. Alfonsi, born in 1980 in Florence, has started in the World Superbikes in 2005 and he is a well known rider at the paddock once he is very professional and with a both strong and nice character. A rider with a lot of experience with 1000cc bikes and for sure it is a starting point of a real partnership among technical knowledge, maturity and the instinct of riding faster and faster. Pro Ride with Lorenzo becomes Tuscan D.O.C. Eng. Marco Nicotari, Team Manager and Technical Director “I know Lorenzo since 2007 and since that moment I have been always in contact with him about our projects. Each year we got different roads, but I always saw him as a great rider. A sportsman that has grown up inside the paddock in a very honest and professional way and that absolutely deserves to come back to the World Superbikes. A rider that will bring to us his talent and so many “kilometers” in Superbikes. We will assemble to him a reliable bike, made based on his profile. There will be so much work ahead for his first race with us at Imola. We are full of confidence and a I am personally happy for this new challenge”. Lorenzo Alfonsi, pilota “I am very happy to come back to the World Superbikes! I want to immediately take the bike, both me and Pro Ride staff are motivated to make everything works well in this season. I know Marco for such a long time and we get along well together. I really want to make it right and I believe in this project. It is for sure a great opportunity to come back to the World Superbikes and I thank both Pro Ride and Helios for believing in me and for the support. We will work together to get so many points for the championship. And as we know each other for some years, we are already working well and full of energy to make a good result in Imola.”