Have you had enough of MotoGP silly season yet? Valentino Rossi in Ducati, Casey Stoner 99,9% sure in Honda, Jorge Lorenzo to stay in Yamaha, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso … who knows? Now we’re going to start with World Superbike riders, so bear with us.
Aprilia naturally wants to keep Max Biaggi and is working on a two year deal and they want to keep on Leon Camier as their second rider for the 2011 season.
More interesting is BMW, who intends to keep Troy Corser and oust Ruben Xaus and who will replace the Spanish rider? Rumors have had both Jakub Smrz, who costs the Pata B&G team only 1.
000 euros a month and Aryton Badovini, who could return to the WSBK scene after dominating this season in the Superstock 1000 series on a BMW S1000RR.
We now have a new entry according to Motosprint.
com, Jonathan Rea.
The Brit has another year on his contract with Ten Kate Honda, and would have to pay a big fat penalty is he tries to wriggle out of his contract, but BMW has big pockets.
Marco Melandri’s name has also been linked to the German Superbike team, but the Italian will be very reluctant to leave the MotoGP paddock, however Macho comes pretty cheap in MotoGP standards, only 500,000 euros a season.
Leon Haslam to stay with Alstare Suzuki and hopefully the Japanese company will be investing some money in the Belgium team .
Sylvain Guintoli may have his contract renewed because he only costs Batta a 100,000 euros.
There are also rumors that Cal Crutchlow may be heading to MotoGP in the Tech3 squad to replace Ben Spies, who will be switching the Yamaha factory team (which could be Petronas Yamaha instead of Fiat in 2011).
And Xerox Ducati? It seems that Michel Fabrizio may stay, if he can make peace with Ernesto Marinelli, they’ve been clashing almost all season.
Noriyuki Haga is suffering from a long and mysterious lack of results, he may be out because the Japanese rider costs Ducati 800,000 euros a season.
More rumors when we get them.
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