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Ilmor go bust
One race in and they're out
(15/03/2007)
Team title challengers Ilmor have been forced to hand the power of success back to the Japs and Ducati after announcing that they've run out of 50p's needed to run their MotoGP project.
The team will continue building engines, including the ones for the American 'racing around in a circle Indy League', to try to build up some cash to re-enter MotoGP in 2008.
"As part of the deal McWilliams was given a free bar tab - the cost of which we seriously underestimated" sulked Mauricio Gugelmin our Ilmor insider. "With him being injured for so long he's been on the famous Irish 'black medicine' and sucked dry both our kegs and our bank account".
However Ilmor are particularly bitter with the lack of sponsorship which they blame the Spanish for.
"Those Spanish sacks nick all the money" beefed Mauricio "Them lazy paella gits get all the cash whereas it's completely different for a British team. I think being British we get labelled as 'losers' - but what can we do? Sue James Ellison? We kinda knew we were in trouble when Team KR stated they couldn't find a sponsor - if they can't land one with that mass billboard rider they have how could we?"
One man who'll be dripping iris salt-water into his steamed cabbage is the now redundant manager Harald Eckl. After a punch-up in court the German left his role at Kawasaki to join the Ilmor Super-team but now looks almost certain to return back home to the Black Forest to restart his career in cuckoo clock repairing and cured meat manufacturing.
