Josh Waters will be back in the Superbike World Championship mix before the end of the 2011 season, with Yoshimura Suzuki confirming it will field the Australian in the final round of the championship at Portimao (Portugal) from October 14-16.
Waters, the 2009 Australian Superbike champion, and Yoshimura have already graced the WSBK stage this year on two occasions -- at Phillip Island’s season opener and at Miller Motorsports Park in America.
Waters only enjoyed moderate success in those outings, with his most eye-catching performance for Yoshimura Suzuki coming at the 2011 Suzuka -8-Hour world endurance race in Japan, when he combined with Yukio Kagayama and Nobuatsu Aoki to finish second, just 39 seconds behind the winning Honda of Ryuichi Kiyonari, Kohsuke Akiyoshu and Shinichi Itoh.