Just hours before the start of Friday’s World Superbike practice for the penultimate round of the season at Portimao, Effenbert Liberty Racing has decided to axe another rider from their line-up, and this time it is Maxime Berger.
After Sylvain Guintoli, who quit before the Brno round because he wasn’t being paid (the team’s reason was he was underperforming) and Jakub Smrz who was let go before Nurburgring due to the team’s “reorganisation of its human, technical and logistical resources” while the French rider was let go for a “breach of contract.
”Liberty Racing will be at Portimao only with Lorenzo Lanzi and Brett McCormick, and considering the trend that the team has, will there will be another head falling ahead of Magny Cours and with all this ‘reorganization process’ going on will the team be actually be back on the grid in 2013?Liberty Racing press release which was probably translated from Italian to English using Google:The British would say “that’s racing” to indicate the various hardships that have affected in a non-positive way the Liberty Racing.
We wish to simplify by saying that this is a year born under an unlucky star.
Of course, the regret is quite strong considering the hopeful performance of 2011 and the pretty good start of this year.
This summer first Sylvain Guintoli then Kuba Smrž took other roads due to various vicissitudes of contractual nature nevertheless racing results not so good as the team expected.
Now, with regret, we inform you that Maxime Berger at Portimao will not be deployed by the Liberty Racing team on the basis of breach of contract by the French.
The Liberty Racing Team once again has confirmed Brett McCormick and the Italian rider Lorenzo Lanzi, showing that the squad is more alive than ever, glancing at the next season.
