I could see Vale, if he wins with Ducati maybe looking into running his own CRT team and trying to get a CRT win, that'd give him a win on 125, 250, 500, 990, 800, 1000 (if he gets one) and CRT, that'd be quite a bit of motivation but it's down to how much longer he wants to put into bikes. I think if the CRT thing starts to work we could see more excitement in GP at the expense of not quite having edge of pants factory prototypes running around.
I saw the Suzuki rant. You'd expect Schwantz to have decent input to Suzuki but he kinda contradicts himself he says;
'I feel like he's taken what all of us who've ever been at Suzuki worked so hard for, and more or less just set it aside to go do something else, because this doesn't make good business sense to him any more.'
and goes onto say;
'It gives me almost two full years to try and figure out how to get my foot in the door in Suzuki, in front of the right people, to get the right decision made, so that hopefully when Suzuki does decide to come back into Grand Prix racing, that I can be someone that's at the helm, controlling things.'
If he didnt know the right 'people' at Suzuki in it's current state then how could he hand on heart lay the blame at Paul Dennings door?
Paul Denning said on twitter 'Thanks for supportive comments following @KevinSchwantz tirade re Suzuki GP withdrawal. Bit unfortunate - he has 100% NO IDEA what happened.'
At the end of the day, Suzuki is a business and Crescent is a business, both need to make money. If their venture wasn't making money then none of them could put into it. My only hope is that Suzuki come back to GP in 2014 with a CRT monster, i dont see a rule that prohibits a factory working with a raceteam to bring a bike to the grid, as long as their happy to get the odd engine claimed. Feel free to correct me though.
Posted: 01/12/2011 at 14:48
