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2007-03-15 Ilmor temporary out of MotoGP
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 After just three races in MotoGP and despite ambitious plans, IlmorGP team today announced their temporary withdraw from MotoP championship. After presentation last year in Estoril, team has failed to attract sponsors needed to finance costly MotoGP program, and tough decision was made by team owner. However, team will continue engine and chassis development, while looking for Sponsors.
Mario Illien, Owner of Ilmor Engineering
We discussed the situation in great detail internally and obviously it was an extremely difficult decision for us to make. However once we went through all the options, we decided that the best course of action for the sake of the project as a whole would be to put the racing side of things on hold and continue developing.
I would like to thank Dorna, IRTA, FIM and our technical partners and suppliers for their on-going support and patience during this time. My heart is still very much in the team – we have had fantastic support from the public and the media with some great coverage worldwide. I would also like to say how enormously proud I am of what we managed to achieve in a short space of time – we have a good group of people who have worked incredibly hard over the past few months. Both riders, Jeremy McWilliams and Andrew Pitt have given their best during a difficult development time – I couldn’t have asked for more than that.
We have important meetings and discussions over the next few weeks which will help us to establish the future of the project and team – I am determined to explore all opportunities available to us and I’m hopeful that there will be a positive outcome.
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