MIST Suzuki have been forced to pull out of the rest of this year's British Superbike Championship because the team cannot find the funds to continue with their Cup campaign.

The squad have decided to decided to focus their efforts on searching for sponsorship and to continue the development of their races bikes which would allow a return to the series ready to race at a competitive level should we find the additional support needed to attend any of the remaining rounds.

"Everyone is extremely disappointed but for a new team to the Superbike class I think we have done well despite being seriously hampered by the non-delivery of many essential parts, especially as we are almost unique amongst the privateer teams in that we chose to develop a new bike from scratch," said team boss Mike Edwards.

"We are privately funded and staffed entirely by volunteers although some people put in more hours with the team than doing their full time jobs. We had a reasonable budget to complete the season but with so much bad luck we have struggled to get this far. Having a bike written off due to no fault of our own before it had managed to complete a single lap of it's first race was really hard and it took us several rounds to bounce back.

As it is we are already making plans and looking forward to the 2010 Superbike season and would love to put in another appearance before the end of the year if it was possible."