As we mentioned, with the Hawkstone Park International cancelled today due to bad weather, a lot of riders are short of pre-season prep and one of those riders, Tom Vialle, who was meant to race the English race, is now locked in to race the French International next weekend, at the Sommierois International.

Sommierois were more than happy to share the news and of course, it is big news with the two time MX2 world champion and two time AMA 250 supercross champion making his home debut on the HRC machine.

"Back to Europe on the Honda HRC Official First French outing of @tomvialle28 on the 450 Honda. Let's see what number 16 brings for his second preseason test. See you on February 22 in SommièresWill he surprise us?"

Another former MX2 world champion, Maxime Renaux of the Monster Energy Yamaha team has also put his hand up to race the event, as this pre-season started to look more and more exciting.

The Ducati factory team with Andrea Bonacorsi, Jeremy Seewer and Calvin Vlaanderen will also be racing, as will Kevin Horgmo.

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