        Team RC Squadra Corse and its rider Eugene Laverty will not compete in the Assen World Superbike round, the fifth event of the 2021 season scheduled to run this weekend, for internal reasons. The team has taken the decision with a view to building its competitiveness as the season goes on, restructuring the project in order to allow the talented Irish rider to fight for the positions that count. A difficult decision  Team manager Roberto Perego comments on the decision not to race at Assen: "We&rsquo;re very disappointed and it was a very hard decision, but after some meetings with BMW Motorrad we have decided to stop and not compete in this round. We are at the start of our project and need to work to reconfigure our structure, so that we can be competitive with Eugene again". Translated by Heather Watson WorldSBK, Assen expects a full house       

<p>The satellite BMW team and the Irish rider will not take part in this weekend&rsquo;s Dutch WorldSBK round for internal reasons</p>

WorldSBK: Laverty and RC Squadra Corse to miss the Assen Round

        It&rsquo;s been a long time coming but here they are at last, out on track at Motorland for their first test together. Eugene Laverty and team RC Corse have finally got to work at Arag&oacute;n, in preparation for the 2021 SBK season. The Irishman, who is an official BMW test rider, is riding the M1000 RR and has already completed many laps. According to certain sources, it appears that the four-cylinder the number 50 rider is using has been "borrowed" from the factory SMR squad, the team that fields Tom Sykes and Michael Van Der Mark. It also looks as if this bike will need to be returned to sender once pre-season testing is complete. We will have to wait and see whether the rumours are true. It&rsquo;s great to see Laverty, a rider who can still do well in SBK, out on track but there&rsquo;s not long to go before the start of the season and team RC Corse has its work cut out. The other BMW riders are not exactly hanging about (look out for Jonas Folger) and neither is the rest of the field.  Translated by Heather Watson Carl Fogarty: &ldquo;The Petronas experience was frustrating&rdquo;       

<p>At the Arag&oacute;n test, Eugene is riding the new four-cylinder M1000 RR also used by Sykes, Van Der Mark and Folger. This is a first outing for team RC Corse</p>

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WorldSBK: Laverty and RC Squadra Corse to miss the Assen Round

WorldSBK, Laverty (finally) in action with the BMW