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Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:27 am
by mfzx6r
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.
Roll on
SBK
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:58 am
by dilligaf
Still some hope
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.
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2008/Dorn ... withdrawal
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:44 am
by Lone Wolf
Don't really care, GP was never as good as SBK for me anyway
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:00 pm
by mfzx6r
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
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:31 pm
by Phil
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
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:28 pm
by corbywan
The only good thing about this is that Marco won't have to ride one!!
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:04 pm
by supra supra
So what happens to Hopkins and Melandri? At least West has a ride now.
Perhaps Kawa will put more effort into other parts of motorcycle racing...
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:55 pm
by speedqueen
supra supra wrote:So what happens to Hopkins and Melandri? At least West has a ride now.
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.
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:36 am
by mick_dundee
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.
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:25 am
by Saki
maybe they need to get workers comp for some unfair dismissal!
Re: Kawasaki factory are out of Motogp
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:54 am
by mfzx6r
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