“Well, they call it silly season and the only silly thing is the fact everyone knows who is going where before anyone is signed. It was common knowledge inside the GP paddock that Josh Coppins and Marc de Reuver would be riding for the Rinaldi team in 2007, as mentioned on another website today Billy Mackenzie will race for Kawasaki in 07 and Tommy Searle for KTM.
A great rumor in the paddock is that David Vuillemin is coming back to GP racing, as is Mike Brown, although not sure either of these two could match the new era of Grand Prix riders. For sure Vuillemin and Brown would be interesting additions to the GP paddock, and welcome ones.
Also news that Shayne King will race the last GP of the season and then head to the Joel Smets Invitational a week later. This Joel Smets race is going to be a very good event, with names like King, Bartolini, Trampas Parker, and many more invited.
My bet is that Tyla Rattray will head to America in 2007, it’s not official, and Tyla is not even sure what he wants to do in 2007. He’s tough enough to survive in America, just hope unlike so many of the other brilliant GP riders who headed to America that he remains injury free over there.
We blew it a little a week ago, mentioning that David Philippaerts would race MX1 in 2007. In fact it’s not yet decided which class the Italian will race. Seems Antonio Cairoli will stay in MX2 in 2007 afterall, at least that is what they are saying at the moment.
Cedric Melotte is talking with several teams at the moment, he looks likely to have a good ride in 2007 and we are happy about that. Melotte is really one of the honest guys in the GP paddock, and if he gets his form together, then he will be a contender in the MX1 class.”
Geoff Meyer, MX Large.
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