The dwindling of the MotoGP grid has accelerated to a full-scale hemorrhage. Earlier in the week, it emerged that Hiroshi Aoyama's Interwetten Honda team is on the verge of pulling out for 2011, and yesterday, news leaked from Suzuki suggests that the factory Suzuki team will cut its involvement to just a single bike for next season. With two bikes gone from the already sparse MotoGP grid, only the addition of Karel Abraham and the Cardion AB team have saved MotoGP's modesty, bringing the probable line up for next year to 16.
Today, things got even worse for MotoGP, however, with news emerging from the Pramac Ducati camp that the team is to halve their rider lineup next year, down from the two-man effort of Mika Kallio and Aleix Espargaro to just a single rider, either Loris Capirossi or Aleix Espargaro. Capirossi - whose seat left vacant at Suzuki will not be filled, it seems - and his manager Carlo Pernat are insistent that they have a contract with Pramac for next season, and there is no doubt that team manager - and CEO of the Pramac concern - Paolo Campinoti is very keen to have Capirossi in the satellite Ducati squad. Aleix Espargaro, however, still has a contract with Pramac to ride for next year, though the Spanish rookie seems content to accept that he will be out of MotoGP next season, and is already talking to both Aspar and Pons in Moto2 for 2011.
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