It looks like Effenbert Liberty Racing Team has gone and done it again, and just before the Nurburgring round.
After Sylvain Guintoli quit the team at Brno, it now seems that Jakub Smrz will no longer riding for the Italian Czech team (it still has to be officially confirmed) and has been replaced by Lorenzo Lanzi, who is currently on track in the first free practice session.
The 30-year old Lanzi – whose last racing effort was at Assen for World Supersport team ProRace, where he won the wet race – left early this morning for Germany and via Twitter said he would be riding a twin cylinder machine.
Effenbert Liberty has been suffering financial difficulties and skipped the Moscow round.
and in a previous press release has stated that they would start a ‘constructive reorganisation of its human, technical and logistical resources,” but no one expected that Smrz would become part of the human resources reorganization.
Check back with us later to see if Liberty Racing issues one of their usual statements.
UPDATE:Effenbert Liberty has finally released a very brief and curt press release – a little late considering that Lanzi already finished the first free practice – stating the motive for dropping Smrz is’reorganisation.
’ Weirdly enought this ‘reorganisation process’ took place yesterday evening with Smrz already at Nurburgring ready to start the weekend and Liberty’s pre-race press issue had confirnmed his partecipation, “On track to hold high the colors of the Effenbert team there will be: Kuba Smrz, third in Race 2 in Silverstone and author of the Superpole in Salt Lake City and Silverstone.
”“The Effenbert Liberty Racing Team goes on in its reorganisation of its human, technical and logistical resources for the next racing season.
For this reason the Team would like to inform that for this Germany GP the Italian rider Lorenzo Lanzi replaces Kuba Smrž.
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