Former 500cc and WSBK race winner Garry McCoy has split from the FB Corse team, which he now feels will be unable to make its MotoGP debut this season.
FB Corse, which is planning to enter MotoGP with a three-cylinder motorcycle at select events in 2010, insists that former Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki MotoGP rider John Hopkins remains part of the project.
Alex de Angelis has not ruled out the possibility of switching to the World Superbike Championship in 2010, but claims he will only do so when he has exhausted all possibilities of snaring one of the few remaining spots left on the MotoGP grid.
The MotoGP grid could be set to swell in 2010 following tentative confirmation that a new privateer team is planning to compete at the Valencia finale as a prelude to a full-time entry next season.