As the 2012 season nears its end, the money is running out for some of weaker teams in the motorcycle racing paddock. The most egregious example of this is of course the Effenbert Liberty shambles, the Czech team managing to miss World Superbike rounds and drop racers despite having both a title sponsor and paying riders. But in the few days since the last round of MotoGP at Aragon, the same malaise has come to the MotoGP paddock as well.
Two riders are to be replaced for the next round on, and for both men, the reason they are being dropped has nothing to do with their performance, a fact made uncomfortably clear by the choice of replacement riders. In MotoGP, Roby Rolfo is to replace Mattia Pasini aboard the Speedmaster Aprilia CRT bike, and in Moto2, Toni Elias is to take the place of Claudio Corti in the Italtrans team. Both Pasini and Corti are being dropped for financial reasons: their replacements bring more money to the team than the men whose place they are taking.
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