More problems for MotoGP as Suzuki halts development on the GSVR

**Cajun** · 4th January 2009, 19:07

Early indications are pointing that Suzuki has halted any further development of its 2009 MotoGP race bike. While Suzuki is not pulling out of the series like some other manufacturers, this is another sign that companies are finding motorsports as an expense they can do without in the tough economic climate. The 2008 season saw the signature Rizla blue riders on the podium several times, but with the freeze on development we can only imagine that the boys in powder blue will have an even harder times of things.

http://moto.caradisiac.com/Moto-GP-S...elle-GSV-R-324

**racerhead** · 4th January 2009, 20:01

This really aint looking good for next year

**Cajun** · 4th January 2009, 20:02

Originally Posted by racerhead

This really aint looking good for next year

well its only the backmarkers which are pulling out really.

but not a good sign at all

**Skunk** · 4th January 2009, 20:04

Front runners can only be judged by their distance ahead of the backmarkers.

**pritch** · 4th January 2009, 21:54

Originally Posted by Cajun

well its only the backmarkers which are pulling out really.

Well it won't make much of a spectacle if all we get to see is Rossi, Lorenzo, Dovisioso, Pedrosa, Stoner and possibly Hayden anywhere near the front...

I wonder how much effort and expense is currently going into development of the new 600 class bikes? The plan to ditch the 250s could turn out to be reeeeeally bad timing.

We'll see...

**Badjelly** · 5th January 2009, 10:12

Originally Posted by pritch

Well it won't make much of a spectacle if all we get to see is Rossi, Lorenzo, Dovisioso, Pedrosa, Stoner and possibly Hayden anywhere near the front...

You forgot to add the smiley, so I'll do it for you:

**cowpoos** · 5th January 2009, 14:16

Originally Posted by Cajun

Early indications are pointing that Suzuki has halted any further development of its 2009 MotoGP race bike. While Suzuki is not pulling out of the series like some other manufacturers, this is another sign that companies are finding motorsports as an expense they can do without in the tough economic climate. The 2008 season saw the signature Rizla blue riders on the podium several times, but with the freeze on development we can only imagine that the boys in powder blue will have an even harder times of things.

http://moto.caradisiac.com/Moto-GP-S...elle-GSV-R-324

I can't read the shit in that article....what language is it in??

**Cajun** · 5th January 2009, 14:19

Originally Posted by cowpoos

I can't read the shit in that article....what language is it in??

fuck knows but thats why i put the translated version up

**riffer** · 5th January 2009, 20:10

Dodgy google translation of article:

Saying that there are currently the house on fire Moto GP is in the very start of the euphemism. Sponsors leaving the ship, another deafening silence that shook Suzuki, and the withdrawal of a manufacturer Kawasaki, which was effective plunge below eighteen motorcycles required by the specifications laid down by the FIM for the label "World Championship". Do not throw more, cutting the Dorna is full!

The weather was more to the status quo but to the emergency room, a meeting between all manufacturers involved in the Queen category will be held on January 7, Japan. Ducati will obviously travel and Kawasaki will be at the table discussions as a member of the MSMA, the association official blazons.

Axis effort to drastically reduce the costs in the short term will also be discussed, and the side of the FIM, runway paving the way for the purchase of Moto GP facility with plants would be preferred. A philosophy that had allowed the last century to develop seriously the starting grid. To do this, everyone will be used to ensure reasonable prices.
As for Dorna, no noise on the subject would not filter for the moment on this day, it is true holiday. But the position of Carmelo Ezpeleta appears to have seriously complicated since recently.