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“We have relished competing on a global motorcycle racing stage with our rivals over the last seven seasons and will miss the opportunity to showcase our technical capabilities against them"

From a press release issued by FIM:

FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix
Change to the Regulations

Following a unanimous proposal from MSMA, the Grand Prix Commission, composed of Messrs. Carmelo Ezpeleta (Dorna, Chairman), Claude Danis (FIM), Hervé Poncharal (IRTA) and Takanao Tsubouchi (MSMA), in the presence of Mr. Paul Butler (Secretary of the meeting), in a meeting held today at the circuit of Sepang, unanimously decided to introduce the following change to the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix Regulations.

MotoGP class:

Bridgestone will be the single tyre supplier for the MotoGP class for 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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The agreement between MotoGP World Championship commercial rights-holders Dorna Sports and the Sepang International Circuit has been extended, meaning the circuit will host MotoGP until at least 2010.

In an official ceremony on Saturday afternoon at the Polini Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix, Dorna’s CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta and Sepang International Circuit CEO Razlan Razali signed the deal extending the agreement for two more years. Continue »

KTM is focusing its efforts on the 125 cc Grand Prix class for the future of the road racing world championship. The Red Bull KTM Team, under the technical leadership of constructor Harald Bartol, will be a newly formed factory squad. Next to the Spanish youngster Marc Marquez, American Cameron Beaubier, the successful protégé of the KTM MotoGP Academy, will be officially appointed to compete for the Mattighofen (Austria) factory. A further developed version of the 125 FRR will be deployed as a replacement motorcycle.

“We have decided for the GP 125 cc class because contrary to the 250 cc class, its existence is secured in the medium to long term”, said Winfried Kerschhaggl, head of KTM Racing.

The company, which has for years encouraged the next generation with intensive activities in offroad and road racing activities, thus re-affirms this strong and long-term commitment to the smallest cubic capacity within the world championship competition.

Some of the stuff he says is a joke about sharing data and that's why I'm mad. I haven't seen his data for a long time. The truth is he sees everybody's data, so lets be clear about that.

Last week, Alberto Puig, Dani Pedrosa’s team manager, started a smear campaign against Nicky Hayden, accusing him of all sorts of inabilities. Going so far as to call into question Hayden’s 2006 MotoGP Championship. Hayden had previously said that he believes Puig, for all intents and purposes, runs HRC and the Repsol Honda team. Puig took offense, and the dirty laundry in the Repsol garage is quickly coming to mainstream light.

This war of words apparently started with an interview Hayden gave to Madrid-based newspaper El Pais a few weeks past. El Pais is one of Spain’s largest national newspapers.

At this mornings pre-race press conference in Malaysia, Hayden was questioned on the topic at hand and responded by stating that “it certainly seemed to ruffle a few feathers but I’m not really wanting to go back and have a cat fight back and forth with this guy and defend against everything he said. I’m not even sure what I said but I did say Puig basically runs our team, he runs HRC at the moment and I really believe that and I stand by that. Continue »

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