It looks like the final nail in the coffin of Britain's most successful Superbike team has been driven in as staff at GSE Racing (Airwaves Yamaha) have been given their redundancy notices.
A new title sponsor has yet to be found to partner the team into 2010 but they, and Yamaha, say they are still looking for opportunities in one final push before the team is forced to disband.
"Everyone at GSE Racing is incredibly saddened that we may no longer be able to compete in the British Superbike Championship. We enjoyed our most successful season ever in 2009," said team boss Coln Wright.
"Leon Camier and James Ellison were the only two riders to have finished every race in the points (barring Leon's exclusion at Cadwell) and we enjoyed numerous double race wins and double one-twos on our way to first and second in the Championship standings.
"We were very much looking forward to continuing this success on into 2010 as we entered our second year in partnership with Yamaha, but unfortunately it looks like this will now not be.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the whole team for their unrivalled dedication and hard work, our previous sponsors for their support, and of course the British Superbike fans."
"WE LAUGHTED,IT WAS FUN."
