Bayliss to BSB with GSE?

With expectation growing that Troy Bayliss will leave the Ducati Marlboro MotoGP team at the end of this season, despite Ducati insisting that a final decision has yet to be made, some 'insiders' are now linking the Australian with a move back to BSB - with his former GSE team.

Following previous suggestions by sources close to Crash.net that GSE will be making a return to British Superbikes as the top Ducati backed team in 2005, GSE's Darryl Healey was snapped talking to the Marlboro Ducati team at last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix (pictured). Insiders suggest that Healey may also have been talking to Bayliss about the BSB project.

Whatever the motive for Healey's presence at Sepang, it will no doubt fuel rumours that GSE will return to BSB with Ducati next season. For its part, Ducati has yet to reveal its 2005 BSB team line-up, but has confirmed it will increase factory support to the series.

Should Bayliss be uninterested in returning to the championship he won with GSE in 1999, Ducati's World Supersport rider Lorenzo Lanzi is still being tipped for a possible BSB move, although this is despite the Italian factory recently commenting to Crash.net that the young Italian's future will be in either the World Supersport or World Superbike championship.

Lanzi recently took part in the final round of the AMA Superbike championship at Virginia, out-performing team-mate Regis Laconi in the first race to take a fourth place finish. He was also running in third position, and a possible podium, in the second race before his 999 broke down.

Stay tuned for further developments...