When we heard that Daniele Romagnoli would be leaving his role as Jorge Lorenzo’s team manager at the end of this season, we also heard that several other team members were preparing to leave as well.

The offical reasons for this sort of exodus is unkown, but rumors have it there’ve been problems with Romagnoli’s way of running the garage and personality clashes with Lorenzo’s crewchief Ramon Forcada.

Two electronics engineers, Andrea Zugna e Cristian Battaglia who’ve been important in the development of the elettronics on the M1 have signed up with Honda HRC. The hiring of these two specialists, who’ve always followed Magneti Marelli electronics could mean that Honda may be thinking of switching to a Marelli electronics package next year.

Also leaving is Carlo Luzzi, who was Lorenzo’s telemetry analyst and he’ll be working with Andrea Dovizioso, which will leave Ramon Aurin without a job, but rumors from Europe say he’ll be Dovizioso’s new crewchief, while Davide Marelli, Chris Vermeulen’s telemetry analyst will be heading to Lorenzo’s garage.

Lorenzo’s crew in 2010 will include Ramon Forcada as crewchief, Davide Marelli, telemetry analyst, Javier Ullate, Valentino Negri, Walter Crippa and Juanita Llansa as mechanics.

There’s no word where Daniele Romagnoli or Dovizioso’s former crewchief Peter Benson will be heading next year, but other unconfirmed rumors have Massimo (Maio) Meregalli Yamaha Superbike team manager, could be switching to MotoGP and become Lorenzo’s new team manager.

Source | gpone and motocuatro

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