[JK_DILLA]

James Toseland lost his Ducati ride in WSB. Replaced by Lorenzo Lanzi. So where will Toseland go? To ten Kate if there is an opening, if not, Ducati america made an offer for him to run along side Neil Hodgeson in the AMA. That is something i would like to see.

 

[jeeps84]

Should be interesting to see what he does. I don't think he will set it out if he can get a ride.

 

[JK_DILLA]

Chris Vermeulen has made the move from WSB to moto GP. getting a ride with Suzuki and Hopkins. So Toseland jumps over to the Ten Kate ride in WSB.

 

[jeeps84]

I guess we will see how he does on a Honda.

 

[2WheelTuner]

Silly season has begun!

 

[ShanMan14]

:crazy: :crazy:

 

[ScottSellersUNR]

Hopkins has lost his Suzuki ride for 06..... There is tlak aobut him going to race for his dads team if they get the finanaces back in order with Proton KR, that will be interesting to see the priateer team with a quality rider this time around. I hope it happens

 

[pickle.of.doom]

Are you sure scott? I know that KR jr is gone from the Suzuki team, but I thought Hopkins and Vermeulen were still going to be teammates.

 

[ScottSellersUNR]

the last round of GP on Speed the announcers said he was leaving Suzukis facotry, but didnt have another contract elsewhere officially offered, but speculation was to ride with his dad on the Proton KR

Edit: I'm retarded and tired. got hopkins and KR jr mixed up.... It is KR thats gone, not hopkins.

 

[pickle.of.doom]

When you said "going with his dad" thats what I thought, you just had em confused.. :dthumb:

 

[JK_DILLA]

is suzuki debuting a new design next year? I thought i read that somewhere. If so, looks like Hopkins and chris both will need some time for the learning curve.

 

[ScottSellersUNR]

JK--
Everyone will be relearning a new bike since they are all going to 800cc specs, i cant see em just swapping motors, id htink they are gonna narrow em up and redesign to keep em at world class performance...nobody will run a wder bike then they need to. Companies like Proton are gonna find a new engine design to be costly in a already fragile finacial state, i think these redesigns kill the privateers, but what can they do about it.

 

[JK_DILLA]

i thought they werent going that way (smaller disp) till 07, 08. Still a engine/bike redesign is never cheap. i agree that alot of the smaller teams will be unable to compete for years. Especially the clean sheet teams like the KR Proton and Blata teams. But give honda, yamaha, etc a few years and theyll be geting 250hp from 800cc anyway.

 

[ScottSellersUNR]

GP race announcers have been saying 800cc for 06 all year.

 

[JK_DILLA]

that should be interesting.

 

[jeeps84]

Money has always and will always be the biggest separation between the factory teams and privateers.
They almost run two different races in one.

 

[Als-Repsol]

GP race announcers have been saying 800cc for 06 all year.

First Hopkins/Roberts and now this............. go back to bed you are sadly confused. They are NOT going to 800cc in 06 and never have been, its in 2007..... always has been. A simple search would confirm this

 

[pickle.of.doom]

Hey Scott, its official now:

Kurtis Roberts Back In MotoGP
by staff
Monday, October 31, 2005
American Kurtis Roberts will be back on his dad's KR V5 this weekend at the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix. Roberts has completed a two-day test on the machine he raced last year and he and the bike will be in Spain this weekend.

Roberts raced for the Erion Honda team this season in the United States.

Taken from http://superbikeplanet.com/2005/Oct/051031b.htm

 

[ScottSellersUNR]

Sweet. Be nice to see a privateer team get a good rider. Hopefully they'll pull a good result to end on. Didnt KR Proton miss several races this season due to finanaces?

 

[pickle.of.doom]

They missed two or three when KTM dropped out I do believe.