Jakub Smrz - Guandalini Racing - Assen 2009
The World Superbike team Guandalini Racing, have announced that they will be racing with only one rider at the coming round of the championship at Brno, Jakub Smrz.
The latest victim of the economic crisis as well as waiting for payments from their sponsor, has seen the team having to scale down their operation. However, the rumours have been doing the rounds for a while that the Australian rider Brendan Roberts would be ousted from the team.
Roberts suffered an horrific crash at the first corner of the Monza round, when Makoto Tamada ran into the back of him, forcing his Ducati into Max Neukirchner.
It looked likely that the replacement rider Gregorio Lavilla, would be riding until the end of the season after several rides for the team, but sadly not.
Smrz, who is currently standing eighth in the championship, will be riding in front of his home crowd in Brno but admitted it isn’t his favourite circuit.
The Guandalini team confirmed that Smrz will be remaining with them for the 2010 season and issued the following statement;
“Following the results obtained over the course of the season with Jakub Smrz, Guandalini Racing will exercise its option to renew their contract him for the 2010 season.”
Smrz claimed his first pole position at Misano this season, much too every one’s amazement and also took his place on the podium at Assen, a first for him and the Guandalini team.
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