Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp

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Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp

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:cry: Its official its on their motogp webpage

KAWASAKI PRESS RELEASE
Published: 9 Jan 2009

Tokyo, January 9, 2009 -- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that it has decided to suspend its factory MotoGP racing activities from 2009 season.

Amid quickly changing business environment, Kawasaki has been promptly taking countermeasures to cope with the situation. As the world economy is not likely to recover in a short period due to the major impact of the financial crisis, Kawasaki decided to suspend its MotoGP racing activities from 2009 season onward and reallocate management resources more efficiently.


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Still some hope :kuda:

Following Kawasaki´s announcement, confirming that the Japanese manufacturer would suspend its factory MotoGP activity, Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta has revealed that a Kawasaki privateer project is under consideration.

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Don't really care, GP was never as good as SBK for me anyway
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Grey Ghost wrote:Don't really care, GP was never as good as SBK for me anyway

True maybe now they'll spend some money on the sbk team with some real factory support
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mfzx6r wrote:
Grey Ghost wrote:Don't really care, GP was never as good as SBK for me anyway

True maybe now they'll spend some money on the sbk team with some real factory support
What fucking planet you living on Mario ? Is there any room left, sounds like my kinda place :kuda:
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The only good thing about this is that Marco won't have to ride one!!
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So what happens to Hopkins and Melandri? At least West has a ride now. :shock: Perhaps Kawa will put more effort into other parts of motorcycle racing...
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supra supra wrote:So what happens to Hopkins and Melandri? At least West has a ride now. :shock: Perhaps Kawa will put more effort into other parts of motorcycle racing...
that is a very good question - I was thinking the same thing myself.
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supra supra wrote:So what happens to Hopkins and Melandri?
Well if noone purchases the Kwaka team they have a year off on full pay no doubt.. maybe they can opick up a ride in the AMA or something, leaving it late now though.
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maybe they need to get workers comp for some unfair dismissal!
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If they lose anymore teams the grid will look like it did in the 500cc days with only 8 riders or so and Honda trying to sell the 3 cyl junk bike
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