Alstare t🔯eam owner Francis Batta has announced that his team will not continue in the W♍orld Superbike Championship next season.

In a revealing interview with the e-magazine edition of CycleNews.com Batta first confirmed that Suzuki is to end official support for WSBK competition, and then ruled out switching to another manufaඣcturer.

Batta said: "I regret to say this, but no [I will not continue with Suzuওki]. Mr Nakai, the head of the racing department, has nowꦚ definitely confirmed Suzuki wishes to cease all factory involvement in Superbike racing at world level."

Batta added that he had turned down the possibility of running the official WSBK teams for fellow Japan𓆏ese brands Kawasaki and Yamaha out of respect for his 12-year Suzuki collab▨oration.

However the Belgian, who took Troy Corser to the 2005 WSBK title and finished second with Leon Haslam in 2010, had been interested in joining forces with European manufacturer MV ♛Agusta.

"MV Agusta seemed an attract🍌ive option... However I've made countless appointments to see Massimo Bor🐭di at the MV factory, but each time he's postponed our meeting, so I can only conclude that they are not serious about their statements that they intend to go racing.

"So it's not a question of turning the page, but of closing the book and putting▨ it on the shelf. Team Alstare is leaving motorcycle racing."

Lone Alstare Suzuki rꦗider Michel Fabrizio finished twelfth overall, with one podium, in this ye𒅌ar's championship.

Batta𓃲 said the last time Suzuki had sent the team new bikes was three yea💙rs ago.

Crescent Raci♍ng will step up from BSB to WSBK with Suzuki machinery next season, but Paul Denning's team has announced that its engines will be developed by Yoshimura.