Loris Capirossi and Chris Vermeulen are likely to retain their rides at Rizla Suzuki next year.

Rizla Suzuki are expected to confirm that Loris Capirossi and Chris Vermeulen will remain with the team through to 2009 after a run of good form of late for both riders.

Although Capirossi was always expected to have his contract extended, there were question marks about Vermeulen, who was having a patchy season up until his two consecutive podiums in Germany and the United States.

Coupled to Capirossi's third place finish at Brno last weekend, the riders are now classified a solid seventh and tenth in the overall standings, while both are in with an outside shot of fourth place in the championship.

As such, while Vermeulen has been courted by Xerox Ducati for a switch to World... // Yahoo! Eurosport