Brit Vincent gets works Yamaha for Donington.

Jay Vincent will ride the spare Red Bull Yamaha YZR500 at Donington Park this coming weekend, as regular pilot Garry McCoy misses the British MotoGP with a broken wrist.

The injury, which McCoy suffered at the French Grand Prix six weeks ago, is refusing to clear up quickly and, when the Australian was forced to miss this weekend's Assen TT, Red Bull team bosses decided to nominate a replacement with the British round so close.

Vincent ran with the Padgett's Honda team in 250 last year before going to the Pulse GP squad in 500 this year. Running with what are essentially the MuZ Weber bikes from 1999, which a big money investor acquired when helping to purchase the entire ex-Rolf Biland run team, results have been poor, and reports from around the paddock claim that the team is unable to pay invoices, mechanics or PR staff.

Vincent's race at the weekend in Holland lasted just one lap in a season so far that has not seen his bike get to the end of a race
once inside the top 15 finishers.

He has been one of the top privateer 250GP riders of recent years, and managed to get his home crowd excited with fifth place at the British Grand Prix of 1999, having led early on.

The son of Chris Vincent, one of Britain's best sidecar racers, Jay first won the British 250 championship in 1994 and was second in the European Championship in 1997, winning two races. He began his first full season of grand prix racing in 1998, and secured fifth places in the 250cc races at both the German and French Grands Prix. He finished eleventh in the championship in 1999, a feat he managed to equal again in 2000, on the Padgetts Aprilia.

Vincent brings his #24 to the Red Bull team - which of course was the number that Garry McCoy used to such great success last year before being promoted to number five with his place in the championship.

McCoy's broken scaphoid continues to mend but not quickly enough, as he found out when forced to pull out of practice for the Dutch TT at Assen because of excessive pain.

Another three weeks healing time and physiotherapy will see the Australian back in action on the Red Bull Yamaha for the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring on 22 July.