Gresini to visit scene of Kato accident.

Team Telefonica Movistar Honda manager Fausto Gresini has declared that he will return to the Suzuka circuit on Sunday, to inspect the area where his star rider Daijiro Kato suffered his terrible accident during the Japanese Grand Prix.

The team is just as mystified by the accident as everyone else and Gresini hopes his visit will help shed light on what happened on lap three of the season opening GP.

Pictured is the newly re-profiled exit of the 130R corner, changed for this year. Kato veered to his left (right on pic) sharply - for unknown reasons - shortly after negotiating the corner, at 200kph, hitting a barrier and being thrown into a sickening series of cart-wheels.

Tohru Ukawa has suggested he tangled with another ride. Television footage and closed circuit cameras were unable to offer an explanation.

Kato remains in a coma at the intensive care unit of the Mie Medical Center in Yokkaichi. The Hospital has not made any official medical statement yet, but the Japanese doctors have confirmed that there has been a slight improvement in Daijiro's condition (see separate story).

Gresini, who has been with his rider since the accident, said: "We all keep on praying for Daijiro, it is the only thing we can do now; there is nothing we can say, just wait and see what happens."

Joining Gresini at the Hospital is Kato's wife, his chief mechanic Fabrizio Cecchini and commercial director Carlo Merlini, along with many of his fellow Japanese riders and Honda representatives.