Michael Rutter's team boss Alistair Kennedy has fully backed Darrell Healey's reservations about the new BSB technical regulations and says the NW200 Ducati team will use this weekend to test how the 10kg weight penalty affect their 1098R - but there are no guarantees Rutter will race on Monday.
"After much consultation between ourselves, JHP Racing, MSV and Buildbase, the NW200 team have today decided to attend Donington this weekend," said Kennedy.
"The main reason for this decision is the fact that late yesterday MSV confirmed to John Hackett that John Laverty's Buildbase NW200 Ducati 1098R Superbike Cup entry remains unaffected by the new weight ruling for Superbikes. Therefore it is in the best interests of the team, sponsors and race fans that we turn up and race as normal with John in the Superbike Cup."

Kennedy went on to fully endorse the statement issued by GSE Racing on Tuesday concerning the timing, lack of consultation and completely unjustified rationale for the weight penalty on the Ducati Superbikes.
He also confirmed that JHP Racing have absolutely no supporting data as to how the Superbike will perform with this weight penalty in race set up.

In conclusion he clarified that the team will use this weekend mainly as a test session with the new weight penalty onboard the Superbike and that no decision will be taken as to Michael Rutter's participation in the races on Monday until Sunday lunchtime at the earliest.