Exhibition embarrassment for Kawasaki’s Alex Hofmann

The Portuguese Grand Prix got off to a painful and slightly embarrassing start for Kawasaki's Alex Hofmann when the 24-year-old German crashed his Ninja ZX-RR during an exhibition ride at Estoril's seafront Casino on Wednesday afternoon.

This is the guy who replaced Andrew Pitt in the factory Kawasaki MotoGP team, has shown nothing in the racing- his team mate Nakano is a top 5 contender this year and meanwhile Hoffman is going to be battling the lowly WCM team. I had no time for him when he took Pitt's seat (Team manger German, new rider German- go figure!), and this just cements my view that he's a clown and way way out of his depth.

Alex Hoffman- clown prince of MotoGP