Reitwagen Motorsport BMW has officially announced that Andrew Pitt, who signed a two year contract, will be riding with their new team, that will debut in the WSBK paddock next season. The team will be fielding BMW’s S 1000 RR and have already confirmed Austrian rider Roland Resch as their other rider.

The squad will be run by Alfred Inzinger and Johan ‘Stiggy’ Stigefelt, who just three days ago announced that he was pulling his WSBK and SS teams from the 2010 championship, will be the technical manager. Other key crew members from Stiggy’s ex team have also found a place in the team and former racer Peter Goddard will be working as the chassis engineer.

The Reitwagen Motorsport team are now preparing for their first test which will take place at the Eastern Creek circuit in Australia in January and then test at Phillip Island twice before the start of the season at the end of February, but will not be at the Portimao test.

Source | sbk

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Stiggy Honda Racing run by Johan Stigefelt has shut down and has withdrawn from the Superbike and Supersport World Championships in 2010.

The decision was taken after five years of partecipation at world level due to the economic situation and pull out from their financial partners S2 Racing at the begining of October and the team’s inablity, despite often beating the larger and more ‘noble’ Ten Kate Honda, to find other financial backers that would allow them to continue competing.

The 2009 season saw the team start with Leon Haslam and Roby Rolfo in WSBK and Anthony West and Gianluca Vizziello in WSS. When Stiggy axed Roberto Rolfo, for John Hopkins, that was first sign that the team was suffering from cash problems and trying to get an influx of cash from the Monster backed American, who infortunately spent most of the season sidelined with injuries. The team continued to suffer and tried cutting expenses by first droppping Vizziello for the last three races and then pulling West from the final race in Portimao.

Full press release after the jump.

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