official, cal crutchdog to wss with yamaha.

[castrolcraig]

good lad, smoke em next year.

rest of rumour control places shakey and haslam at sterilgarda, eugene is looking very likely for parkalgar honda and harris will stay at yamaha with martin.

hodgson back to bsb in some form, possibly gse with camier, or with ellison if camier doesnt stay.

[Chilli]

Haslam and Shaky eh? Now bear with here....Would Haslam have to have tested extensively with the Duc, or does it not matter to these guys, it being a twin an' all?

[FourWheelDrift]

Sylvain Guintoli has tested the Yamaha Italia WSBK today possibly to be Sykes team mate next year but unlikely as both with be rookies on the bike, the possibility is Guintoli to ride the Yamaha France bike alongside David Checa, but that's a complete dog and a bad move IMHO.

[castrolcraig]

FourWheelDrift said:

Sylvain Guintoli has tested the Yamaha Italia WSBK today possibly to be Sykes team mate next year but unlikely as both with be rookies on the bike, the possibility is Guintoli to ride the Yamaha France bike alongside David Checa, but that's a complete dog and a bad move IMHO.

sounds about right, with yamaha paying sylvains wages and giving them this years factory bikes.

still no official announcement on birdy's kwaka deal though....

[FeatherZ]

chili haslam was with airwaves for a while mate not like nes new to the duke is it.

I reckon you should all listen to stalkers interview on worldsbk.com he reckons haslam to stiggy is pretty much a done deal and he wants back to BSB to win the title!

[Chilli]

FeatherZ said:

chili haslam was with airwaves for a while mate not like nes new to the duke is it.

Ah didn't realise that. Cheers!

[collieek]

FeatherZ said:

chili haslam was with airwaves for a while mate not like nes new to the duke is it.

I reckon you should all listen to stalkers interview on worldsbk.com he reckons haslam to stiggy is pretty much a done deal and he wants back to BSB to win the title!

Good chance for Walker to win BSB just a pity a lot of the fast boys will have moved on.

[Busamav]

so how many have dropped from the dizzy heights of Motogp back to BSB now then ?

I think at least these guys have dabbled or had a season at one time or another................

Haslam
Walker
Maybe Hodgson
Byrne

[sprinter885]

+ don't forget James Ellison

[FourWheelDrift]

John McGuinness
Scott Smart
Jeremy McWilliams
Rob McElnea
John Reynolds

All done GP500 and then moved back to BSB, most down to older age moves.

[Graeme_Gman]

FourWheelDrift said:

John McGuinness
Scott Smart
Jeremy McWilliams
Rob McElnea
John Reynolds

All done GP500 and then moved back to BSB, most down to older age moves.

Add Niall Mackenzie to that list too.

[Exige46]

and Whitham

[Johno]

FourWheelDrift said:

All done GP500 and then moved back to BSB, most down to older age moves.

With many only getting shoddy rides as well . . Although Mckenzie and big Mac did have good rides, recently the quality of machinery extended to UK riders has been very poor.

Not forgetting Chris Burns for WCM as well by the way . . .

ETA - Great news for Cal. I'm gutted to see him leave the series I go to watch at nearly every round, but soooo glad he didn't hang around to try and win the BSB title. He needs to get on a great ride on the world stage and test his skills against the best, then he'll find out whether he can cut it. I think he'll do well.

Although, I'm not convinced he'll do as well as Rea. He is something special, he was in BSB and to translate that in what is probably the most competitive class is showing how much talent he really does have.

Edited by Johno on Wednesday 24th September 15:41

[FourWheelDrift]

Johnny Rea confirmed on a Ten Kate World Superbike ride.

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/wsbk/news/169448-0...

[castrolcraig]

Exige46 said:

and Whitham

whitham never rode in bsb after his 500cc days, he went back to wsbk then wss with merigali yamaha.