B&G Racing Under PATA Sponsorship for 2010

Italian chips producer PATA is title sponsor of the Borciani and Guandolini Racing team for the 2010 Superbike World Championship. The team signed up Jakub Smrz to compete on the two Ducati 1098 machines. The Czech rider finished tenth in the overall standings last year, stepping onto the podium at Assen and setting pole and fastest lap at Misano.

"We are honoured that the Gobbi family, the owners of PATA, have decided to sponsor our project, and become title sponsor,” Marco Borciani said in a release. “Our rapport has lasted for the last four seasons and we have obtained some good results. We are sure that we'll be able to get the best results for the team now with the PATA logo, and we hope to be protagonists in this year's championship."

“We will do the season with Ducati,” Borciani continued, “who we would like to thank for their collaboration, despite all the media rumours that said it was certain we would be with Aprilia."

"After managing to get through the 2009 season, which was conditioned by the economic crisis, I found, in Marco Borciani, a common viewpoint that has allowed us to unite our forces to develop a project that will allow us to be protagonists in 2010 and beyond,” added Mirco Guandalini.

“We have succeeded in updating the bikes to provide our rider with a technical package that will allow us to repeat and even improve on the previous year's results,” he said. “This has come about thanks to the support of our sponsors, who have confirmed their support, and they will again be represented at an international level in 2010."