With the news that WSBK and MotoGP will now both be run by Dorna, more specifically Carmelo Ezpeleta, rumour abounds over what is to happen to the production class next season. Answer: nothing. It is too late in day for the Spaniards to make wholesale changes to the formerly Italian-run series so apart from re-introducing flag-to-flag racing - which means wheel changes when it rains with a one-bike rule - and slinging out the upper management, the song remains the same.

The season after is a whole new kettle of cliches. Panic-mongers have already decided that WSBK will either have a spec-ECU introduced to stop the likes of Honda from taking their ball home in MotoGP and having a proper kick about in WSBK or have Superstock regulations installed. Even Ezpeleta, at his most meddlesome, isn't a man to completely change a formula that works just because he can.

Whether costs need to be reduced in WSBK is a matter for speculation. The series has a title sponsor, some of the teams also have title sponsors and manufacturer interest is at it a very high level. The riders appear happy with their lot and crowds aren't flocking away from WSBK in the same way they are MotoGP. Ezpeleta will be having a meeting with the MotoGP manufacturers which will, according to a colleague, go something like this:

Honda: "Screw you guys, I'm going home".

Only they won't, as Ezpeleta now owns every playground in town.

Yamaha: "Whatever you say, Mr Nakamoto".

Yamaha are opposed to control on the software, but they don't mind the hardware. If HRC pull out,

Yamaha will probably stay put.

Ducati: "Whatever you say, Mr Ezpeleta".

Ducati have already signed off on the spec ECU and rev limit. They are under real pressure from

Marlboro, so they could be out anyway in 2014. It all depends on Audi.

In other, less serious, news it looks like Sylvain Guintoli could well join Leon Camier at Fixi Suzuki next season but after signing a deal, he was then approached by Aprilia to replace Max Biaggi if the Roman Emperor decides that he now has enough money and won't race again next season. This job was meant to be Camier's but he has stayed with Paul Denning's outfit.

Sam Lowes has apparently turned down the opportunity of being shouted at by Paul Bird for the whole of next year and will remain with his PTR Honda team as he has unfinished business in World Supersport. This may well leave the path clear for Tommy Hill to join the PBM CRT MotoGP team, should the mood take him.

Eugene Laverty spent the whole of race two at Magny-Cours wondering who was doing the maths on his pitwall as, even though team-mate Max Biaggi was already in a good enough place to win the world title, his board kept telling him to slow up.