Britain’s Leon Camier could still appear on the 2014 MotoGP grid after being told by the Ioda team they still want him to ride when the series comes back to Europe.

The 2009 runaway British Superbike Champion was left high and dry when the team’s title sponsor pulled out in January and despite efforts on both sides to rectify the situation, the money to run two riders and four bikes has not been fortchcoming.

Danilo Petrucci has taken up residence in his side of the garage as he has been with the team in previous years, is Italian like the team and brings sponsorship cash.

“It sort of is what it is really. I’m in a not great situation. They are still trying to get a bike out for when the championship comes to Europe and they still want to do something. It might be that Danilo has one bike and I have one bike, but it’s not over yet," said Camier, speaking to bikesportnews.com from his Andorra home.

“It’s not going to be easy but they are still making an effort and want me to carry on. I am a bit up in the air and if another opportunity comes along, then I will have to look at it for definite but they are still very keen and pushing for me to hang on. As soon as they find the money, we can start, if they don’t then we will have to move on.”

Camier’s season has been thrown a short lifeline as BMW Italia have drafted him in to replace the injured Sylvain Barrier for at least two World Superbike rounds in the Evo class. He tested the bike yesterday at Mugello.

“I went and tested the BMW at Mugello on a track day and we got about 15 clear laps in total and I managed to get up to speed quite quickly as I hadn’t ridden for a couple of months. We got down to some good laptimes, for sure we need to change a bunch of stuff to get comfortable but it was really good to jump on the bike and go well.

“We have got a direction in which to go, we need to wind down the electronics and free up the engine more. It will be quite good when we’ve done that I reckon. It’s Sylvain’s bike I am using not a new one and it’s not too small at all. In fact, he has his pegs lower down than I would, which was surprising, but the bike is really good for tall rider. I actually need the pegs higher, which we will do at Aragon.

“I don’t think anything will come along full time now unless someone gets the flick from a team as all the deals were put together a long time ago.”

Camier hasn’t had the best of closed season after he was replaced late on in the Voltcom Suzuki team by Eugene Laverty and says he ‘doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry’.

“It’s not good this has happened twice in a row. When Paul (Denning, Voltcom Suzuki) pulled the plug, the Ioda thing came along but now that’s gone away from me a bit. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry sometimes. I did look at two options in British Superbikes before Ioda happened but I had to refuse both of those, one because of the MotoGP ride and the other for very personal reasons.”