This. The protectionist measures given Ducati by the FIM over the years is nothing short of disgusting. This is long, long, long overdue.
.... Spectre's a WSBK fan?
Also, congrats to Max B, and kinda ironic and sad that a mechnical failure caused Haslam to lose the championship. Best of luck ti him next year, hopefully he will realise his full potential and grab a title soon.
On the rumours, just adding to a few and some new ones-
- Althea- they don't know if they are even running a second bike yet next year, so there may or may not be a seat opening there
- Suzuki- talks that they (as a manufacturer) may disappear from SBK entirely due to them not having enough money to even run the MotoGP team. This sucks, and I'm hoping this one isn't true. Although the fact that Yoshimura still wants to jump up to WSBK next year gives the Suzuki fans some hope still!
- Honda- still no talks about how many bikes they will run. Rumours are that Neukirchner will be moving to Moto2 (joy...) next year- for some reason that I can't really figure out (sponsors perhaps?), German riders are currently in major demand in that class (so Tode and Cortese could be given some help by this too)
- Haga- twowheelsblog is reporting his signing as official, he will be riding a satellite (but still full factory supported) Aprilia next year. The team he is riding for is the one being made out of the remnants of DFX and Pata- Lanzi and Smrz's old teams.
- Kawasaki- rumoured to be thinking about running 3 factory bikes next year to keep Sykes along with Vermulen and whoever the other guy is. Hope they do, nice to see a team expanding rather than the current form of downsizing/disappearing altogether...
- BMW- rumoured to be running a satellite, full-factory supported team next year called "BMW Italia". Badovini (STK 1000 superstar) is rumoured to be member numero uno, Toseland as number two (something I'm not happy about personally, but what is my opinion worth? :lol
Either way, this is still one helluva silly season, hope it all gets fixed up soon!
(Also, finally ordered the merch I wanted and talked about earlier in the thread- should be here any day, may post pics in another thread
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FU Suzuki, i do feel for the alstare team, they have done nothing but awesome work and the asshats over in japan can't get their fucking heads out of each others asses. Same goes for the suzuki motogp team...
