That Moto2 RSM Team Scot is having economic woes isn’t exactly new news, however the San Marino based team who fields former MotoGP riders Niccolò Canepa and Alex de Angelis, who is currently subbing for Hiroshi Aoyama in Daniel Epp’s MotoGP Interwetten team may not make it for the upcoming Czech GP and may even have to drop out of the rest of the Moto2 racing season.

The team owned by Cirano Mularoni, who just last year won the last 250cc World Championship with Hiroshi Aoyama and runs under the colors of the Republic of San Marino, has funding problems and just the other day, Rapid Inside NCS who supplies the chassis for their Force GP210 bikes officially dropped their partnership with the team due to continuing unpaid debts by the Sammarinese team and have already had a court issued against the team to recoup their unpaid bills.

Unless Mularoni finds enough cash or backers to pay his debts in the following two or three days, the team’s partecipation in the Brno GP is very highly in doubt.

Source | motoworld.es and bikeracing.it

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Niccolò Canepa will be in the new Moto2 series next season. Canepa has signed a one year contract with Cirano Mularoni’s Scot Racing.

Canepa in 2007 won the Superstock 1000 World Championship and then become a Ducati test rider 2008 and Ducati gave him chance in MotoGP with Paramc Ducati, but the rookie did not live up to expectations and was also injured in a crash at Phillip Island that forced him to miss the final three races, finishing a lowly 16th in the Championship standings and was dropped by Pramac who preferred Aleix Espargaro.

The Italian rider was first considered by Herve Poncharal’s Moto 2 team and then by Andrea Dosoli of Hayate Moto2, instead the surprise call came from Team Scot.

Canepa’s crewchief will be Emanuele Ventura who worked with Hiroshi Aoyama, the 2009 250cc World Champion.

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Scot Racing Team has announced that, despite being close to an agreement with Alex de Angelis for the 2010 season, has been forced to retire from the MotoGP class.

While Honda was willing to put a seventh RCV on the grid for the team, they missed Honda’s deadline for a decision.

Cirano Mularoni Team Manager:

“After the happiness for the conquest of the world championship in the 250cc class for me and for the whole team this is a great disappointment, that no reward for all the work done over the years. Now we just have to concentrate on the project Moto2.

While Alex DeAngelis in a press release had this to say:

“I’m sorry that this opportunity to stay in MotoGP with Cirano Mularoni’s team Scot. In these last weeks we’ve were working hard to find the funds so we could get together for next season and we almost made it. Even if the negotiations were pretty far ahead, Honda informed us that they would not be able to deliver the bike because and expired time limit relevant to the request.”

“For me there’s still a possibility to stay in MotoGP, but at the moment I can’t reveal the details. I’ve still some contacts with several teams in Moto2 and a few negotiations are already at a good point.”

DeAngelis has been linked to Gresini’s Moto2 team, and also to the new FB Corse team that could see their MotoGP debut late next season or in 2011.

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