As far as I'm aware John McGuinness is still contracted to Norton and until we hear different he'll be riding their bike next year though John has recently said he still needs to sit down with Stuart Garner to see what is what because the general rumour doing the rounds at the moment is that he'll be riding a Ducati for Paul Bird next year.

I'm keen to see how the Smiths team fare in this new venture though, they're a very professional and well run team and there's no better man in road racing at the moment it seems than Peter Hickman.