On an interview between Italian magazine, Riders, as quoted on GPOne, WSBK promotor, Maurizio Flammini told that he convinced that Valentino Rossi will join World Superbike soon enough. He also told that without Valentino Rossi, MotoGP is nothing.
Flammini said, ""I don't know if Rossi will come to WSBK, but I'm convinced we will have him in our family soon enough, in our automobile racing series. MotoGP wants to try and be like Formula 1, but without Rossi they would be nowhere. But superbike hasn't copied anyone, and indeed some of the car racing series have actually copied us.
He continue, "MotoGP is an open championship, and it's not possible to move it towards production bikes. If they mandated something production based, the engineers would completely modify them after just ten days. Racers like to change things. I spoke to an engineer from a CRT team, who is using a SBK spec engine without a removable gearbox. They are trying to modify it now, and by the end of the year it will have little or nothing in common with the SBK engine. The two championships will always be different, since it's in their nature."
No confirmation from Valentino Rossi, but according to Rossi's explanation about his future with Ducati, Rossi said that he is still with Ducati until now.
