Here's an update Yesterday Honda's CEO did his year end speech (it was supposed to be Friday) and confirmed Honda was out of F1 but made no mention of MotoGP. There may be more to come tomorrow but for now it looks better than it did!

 

That's good! I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere either.

I'm with pigwings. Honda's always had this obsession with tiny 4-strokes that rev to the moon. They even tried to compete on an equal displacement with 500 2-strokes and got reasonably close.

But there's no reason for it. Bring back the 990s please. The added weight and torque are the best ways to control excessive corner speeds and make the sport safer, but wilder.

Then they won't need to hire tiny people to ride them.

 

The funniest part of all of this is that planning ahead by Honda and Dorna didn't get a championship for Honda or for a Spanish rider even though the series, bike and rider were tailored just for that.

 

I saw in the paper a couple of days ago that Honda was pulling out of F1.
It said that will save Honda $200,000,000 a year.

 

MotoGPMatters has reported that Kawasaki has notified Dorna that they are out of MotoGP leaving Hopkins and Melandri without rides. While the Kawasakis have literally been the laughing stock of MotoGP it is nonetheless sad to see them go. It also drops the field to 17 bikes and I don't believe thats enough under the governing rules to have a "Championship" and Dorna may have to repackage the series as a "Cup" series.