Biaggi to leave WSBK!

[SimJen]

No money to fund him after main sponsor pulls out!
We might see him back in Motogp?
I bet he has a good whinge about it anyway!

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/wsbk...es_suzuki.html

[canarlee]

i cant see where it says he is leaving WSBK.

[Ivan]

That sucks,

Hope he finds something this year I become a bit of a Max fan,
Not him the way he rides he is bloody awsome on a bike,

Hope he finds something for next season a World superbike ride would be awsome again ocnsideringthat Alex Barros is apparently coming back to the WSBK

And so is Carlos Checa


That would be mean Biagi Barros and Checa

[James Deuce]

He's in talks with Gresini Honda for MotoGP. He has been dropped by Alstare, despite what looked like a bloody good year to me.

[NZsarge]

He's in talks with Gresini Honda for MotoGP. He has been dropped by Alstare, despite what looked like a bloody good year to me.

That does'nt add up.

[James Deuce]

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/moto...ggi_talks.html

[scracha]

Cripes. All that's really left for him is to come over and do some street racing at Greymouth.

[Joni]

Cripes. All that's really left for him is to come over and do some street racing at Greymouth.

Woohoo I will be his brolly girl

Im a fan of his, but Kickaha cant stand him... makes watching racing interesting in our home! Hope he gets it sorted and kicks some arse next year.

[pritch]

I guess I'm basically a Rossi fan, and it's hard to have seen the "Faster" movie and read the Brit bike mags and be a fan of both.

When Biaggi went to SBKs I hoped he would do well, but not win. Really though, his efforts this year deserved a much better reward than the order of the boot.

With his experiences this year I think he would have been an even bigger threat next year.

Maybe some Italian tycoon will see the marketing advantage of having an Italian hero on a Ducati?

[roadracingoldfart]

Woohoo I will be his brolly girl

Im a fan of his, but Kickaha cant stand him... makes watching racing interesting in our home! Hope he gets it sorted and kicks some arse next year.

He's my hero as well as i always vote for the underdog. He comes to SBK with a bad boy rating unwaranted (imho) and kicks some ass on tracks he has never seen on a bike thats so unlike anything hes riden for many years.
I heard a rumor that Frankie Chilli was looking for a bloke to help him make a dominant team so the writing may now be on the wall already,Max will have a good personal sponsor package to bring along. Either way i want to see him stay at SBK as his year is next year sharing it with Haga.

[NZsarge]

Woohoo I will be his brolly girl

Im a fan of his, but Kickaha cant stand him... makes watching racing interesting in our home! Hope he gets it sorted and kicks some arse next year.

Pfft! Go Haga san! got to be the most talented rider in that championship that has'nt one it yet, got to be his turn next year?

[Toaster]

I thought the little man had a great come back over the season... shame he was dropped as 2008 would need him to spice it up a bit in WSBKs.

[Toaster]

Pfft! Go Haga san! got to be the most talented rider in that championchip that has'nt one it yet, got to be his turn next year?

Yes well Haga was robbed of vaulable points when Biaggi thought it would be fun to play skittles with him out a few rounds back.

[denill]

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/moto...ggi_talks.html

The fly in the ointment here is: "although it seems Gresini is yet to discuss the matter with Honda..."

[denill]

From: www.motogpnews.com

Is Biaggi's coming back?

Roman Beard owner Max Biaggi has sensationally left the Suzuki World Superbike team on amicable terms - which is PR talk for being paid off not to say anything.

Once again the Max Factor has been left scrambling to find his most recent P45 after his Suzuki team pulled the toupee and 2008 contract swiftly from under the Italian Moanster after his wage demands no longer fitted in to the team structure after losing its title sponsor Alstare Corona* due to the beer firm's fall in profits. Alstare Corona have cited their problems on ex-consumers believing that drinking their product would make their hair fall out and have no friends.

However the impromptu street celebrations throughout Europe had to be put on hold when it emerged that Max may have found a route back into the GP paddock aboard the super-satellite Gresini Honda Team.

Commanders back at the HRC Death Star have so far not blocked team Gresini's move for their most unloved bastard son Biaggi. Our secret mole Steve 'The Mole' Parrish (who, unlike Charlie Cox, certainly doesn't deserve his place on the list of possible BBC employees likely to get the boot) has come up with three possible theories to what the hell HRC are thinking:-

1. Humility Rossi
HRC up the funding to a Foggy Petronas House Extension Project like level and provide Max with the most unequal of equal machinery in a last ditch attempt to trash Valentino Rossi and his previous world championships

2. Humiliate Max
HRC have given up trying to beat Ducati and instead have turned their attention to making Biaggi look a bigger loser. Gresini will be supplied with Max's favourite de-tuned 2004 spec RCV211 and completely ignored throughout the year

3.Humiliate themselves
Since teaming up with Alain Prost in 1998 Honda have had a deep and rich involvement with employing people who moan to cover up their deficiencies. After losing the services of MotoGP's finest moaner Honda may feel it's time to get Biaggi back and get the headlines rolling once more.

Despite his beard MGPN would love to see the return of Roman Empress to MotoGP in what would be a win-win situation for the fans and a lose-lose situation for Max.
Should Biaggi return to Honda on Bridgestone tyres he could easily find himself with a significant advantage over his much hated rival Rossi - and beating the ex-chump would cause widespread beefing from Rossi and his annoying yellow fans and widespread laughter elsewhere.
Should, more likely, Biaggi fail miserably, we can all sit back and enjoy his vocal anti-Honda slander once more.

*Whatever the outcome MotoGPNews is pleased that we'll never have to hear uber irritating World Super bike Commentator Jack Barniclehead name dropping Corona throughout his galling commentary


Your comments...

team kegger
Say what you will about HRC (and I always do!) but I hope they're not two-faced bastids when it comes to Maxine. They cut ties with the ingrate; let's hope it stays that way. Put him on Chucker's scoot. Hardly used after all, though bodywork may be at a premium.


gjbean
Please tell me this is true. The paddock hasn't been the same since Maxi left the Circus. Say what you will about Kurtis, Tamada, Guintoli, Edwards, et al, but nobody generates more quality material for this site than Biaggi (with the possible exception of the now retired King of Jesters--Mr. Gibernau). Perhaps the losers at HRC were caught moaning how this season is a complete disaster and couldn't possibly get any worse. If Biaggi is back on a Honda, they'll find out just how wrong they were!


musubi
One crummy year in world supers and he's back in the premier class? I could understand if he lifted the WSB crown, but he didn't. Whatever. Come on back, Max, so you can get your ass repeatedly and soundly kicked. Yeah, I'd pay to see that and his eventual meltdown. Again.


layback
Bring him back, I think it will be fun, just for what I can read on this site alone.


musubi
Too true, Layback. Wonder if he'll borrow from the extensive Foggy's Excuses For Not Winning. On second thought, by now, Biaggi must have his own impressive volumes of Race Excuses.


flogger11
Welcome home Mr. B is all I have to say!


croaky
Well, nobody has stated the obvious yet. Max should come back to MotoGP so he can continue getting beaten by Toseland!


ctuna6
Best reason stated yet, Croaky. Roll on, Maxine.
Anyone care to bet that even the walnut-faced Kurtis might beat the bearded Moaner?


ctuna6
For the second weekend in a row, Convict Casey is blaming Other Circumstances for not getting pole position. Last time it was other riders getting in his way (How dare they!). This time, the track is just too bumpy for the much-vaunted Ducati/Marelli electronics to cope. But it is surely not Casey's fault. Ohhhh, no. What's the little convict going to do when he has real problems? He's going to be moaning like the Beard, that's what.


ctuna6
Wait—this could be great!. Stoner and Biaggi could do a duet of blaming Other Circumstances. Then they could be joined by Edwards. Instead of the Three Tenors, they could be the Three Moaners. "Equal equipment is all we aaaaaaask!"


sleepy
ctuna6, did Casey have another whinge..?I just thought he went out and won again. Yay bring back Max...another ex world champion is what the paddock needs, while we are at it perhaps we can give Criville a call.