The news last week in the run up to the Sachsenring race was the withdrawl of the Grupo Francisco Hernando team.
Many people chose to comment on this story by discussing whether Gibernau should have made a come back, was he any good anymore, etc. etc. But this isn't the issue and in actual fact one could argue the team did a good job hiring Sete, and had much more coverage/news headlines as a result.
Given that they turned up to race without a major sponsor this was a very important issue. But like everyone else whose tried recently, the team found that "if you build it, they wont come".
Presumably what happened was the money ran out, bills werent paid, etc and end of team.
With Kawasaki seeming to have confirmed their bikes wont be back next year at all, even as the Blackasaki Team Hayate, and Suzuki rumoured to have been clost to pulling the plug themselves last year, MotoGP is in an extremely vulnerable state.
Dorna needs a bigger, bolder, strategy, not only to cut costs, but to make the business of running GP teams a profitable business. And soon.
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