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Taken from Gatedrop.com
"Kris Keefer reported on the Pulp MX show that Suzuki has fired the people from the Research & Development department in America. With this, the brand from Hamamatsu has dissolved its R&D department in the USA.
It means the manufacturer continued on the path already taken in other areas. The manufacturer also saved on their AMA Superbike program, which was run for years by the Yoshimura R&D department, and will now be run by “Team Hammer”. This is because the latter team can do this cheaper than the Yoshimura R&D team.
Unfortunately, the same story is said to be coming soon for the Joe Gibbs Racing team, which would be replaced as the official Suzuki team by the HEP team after this season."
Source:
http://gatedrop.com/suzuki-disband-rd-department-in-us/#.XrRgWC2B2L4
"Kris Keefer reported on the Pulp MX show that Suzuki has fired the people from the Research & Development department in America. With this, the brand from Hamamatsu has dissolved its R&D department in the USA.
It means the manufacturer continued on the path already taken in other areas. The manufacturer also saved on their AMA Superbike program, which was run for years by the Yoshimura R&D department, and will now be run by “Team Hammer”. This is because the latter team can do this cheaper than the Yoshimura R&D team.
Unfortunately, the same story is said to be coming soon for the Joe Gibbs Racing team, which would be replaced as the official Suzuki team by the HEP team after this season."
Source:
http://gatedrop.com/suzuki-disband-rd-department-in-us/#.XrRgWC2B2L4
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Rumors are going that JGR and TLD could be melted to one. But that is a old rumor.
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We also can't forget that the race team was originally created for himself, Ward and McGrath to race Supermoto. That all kept growing and growing and growing. You are going with the flow and at a certain point you are at the highest reachable level "KTM Factory team" and then you start to wonder if this is what you always wanted... Because the whole playing field is changed: Winning one race as satellite/private team is amazing, winning one race as factory team is a disgrace.
Not saying this is the reason and not saying it will all play out this way. I'm just telling a story that could happen because I've seen it before.
i will be very surprised if the ktm group wants to have anything to do with this !!!!!
i am surprised tld still runs the 250 program for ktm......
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