If it was any other team announcing they won’t be taking part in the final round of the World Superbike season at Magny Cours this upcoming weekend, we’d probably be saying what a pity, that’s a shame, but since the rumor involves Effenbert Liberty Racing, it just seems a foregone conclusion that the team would finally fizzle out and fold, despite promises to finish the season.
After starting the 2012 championship fielding four riders, Sylvain Guintoli, Jakub Smrz, Maxime Berger and Brett McCormick, the Italo-Czech team started coming apart at the seams halfway through the season.
Sylvain Guintoli left – supposedly he hadn’t been been paid – and they turned around and accused him of poor results.
They skipped the Moscow round to undergo a complete reorganization process which involved Smrz getting canned and replaced by Lorenzo Lanzi, but the Czech rider became of victim of ‘vicissitudes of contractual nature’.
It was then Maxime Berger’s turn over ‘breach of contract’ and now poor Brett McCormick who suffered a terrible injury at Assen and at Portimao scored an excellent 5th place in Race 1 will not even get the chance to finish the season.