Ducati to miss WSB 2011

Originally Posted by PDL

The 999 cost £100k per engine and rebuild, they used about 8 engines per season on average and rebuilt them after every race weekend, and that was just engines.

Ok i am guessing a bit at figures here, so if someone can fill in the blanks it was something like this; Ducati were running a 999 factory team in AMA, BSB and WSB, that's three series with 8 engines each = 24 @ £100k a shot = £2.4m.

Plus rebuilds after I think every 4 races for each engine another 8 x £100k x 3 series = £2.4m, so about £5m on engines plus crew, rider wages, transport, etc and also MotoGP costs and Corsa development program it all starts to add up for a one factory team, compared to Mr Honda who make more out of selling Civic's.

Can someone check my maths it may be wrong.