Eugene Laverty has admitted to ltxcn.top that his future lies away from MotoGP, afte🍰r failing to secure 2016 Ducati machinery for next season.

The Northern Irishman will now return to the World Superbike Championship, where he finished title runner-up in 2013. Laverty's team is still to be officially announced, but he will headline a new factory-support♍ed Aprilia project w✃ith SMR.

Laverty isꦓ confident it will allow him to fight for the World Superbike Championship in 2017. "That's the clear objective," he said.

At Assen in June - on the back of a s🅘trong, consistent first half of the season - Laverty mad♚e it known that his intention was to remain in MotoGP, despite interest from several factory-backed World Superbike teams.

The 30-year-old even turned down ﷽a chance to partner Jonathan Rea in Kawasaki's title-winning squad, as he sought to further his career in MotoGP beyond his current two-year💃 stint.

But Aspar Ducati's signing of Alvar🐭o Bautista for 2017 effectively put paid to Laverty's🍌 hopes.

The Spaniard, who won his 125cc title with Aspar ten years ago, will🤪 receive Desmosedici 2016 machinery, which recently took Andrea Iannone to victory in Austria.

However Ducati could not stretch its resources to provide the same equipment 🍰for Bautista's team-mate.

"[In 2017] it's going to be one GP15 and one GP16 for the Avintia and Aspar teams," Ducati Corse Sporting Director Paolo Ciabatti confirmed to ltxcn.top in Austria. "That's been decided."

That decision, coupled with the possibility of r♚eturning to World Superbike aboard race winning machinery, finally 'tipped the balance' in favour of WorldSBK for Laverty.

"I've been pondering going back to WorldSBK for a while, including when the Kawasaki seat could have been available, as I have unfinished business there," Laverty told ltxcn.top in Brno.

"At that time I was still unsure of what was available in MotoGP, so I di𒉰dn't want to jumping the gun until I really knew what was on offer here.

"I kept pushing to try and🎃 get a GP16. But when I knew that my team-mate was go𒉰ing to be on one and there was just going to be a GP15 [for me] it was a case of head over heart. Because you can say all you want that it's 'just a little bit different'.

"Ultimately, it was the competitiveness of the machinery that ღtipped the🔯 balance for me.

"I would really be up against it in MotoGP if I was to continue riding a two-year-old bike, whereas in World Superbikes I will have a bike and team capable of winning races each and every race weekend. At the end of the day the very reason I go racing is to win.

"The most difficult part of this decision was informing my crew of six mechanics that I would be leaving the team at the end of the season. Those guys have really been there for me over these past eighteen months and never lost faith in me, even when I returned from injury and I was well off the pace. They remained patient and helped me get back to form and for that I'll be forever grateful.

"I feel that I have improved a lot during these past two seas♎ons and as a result I am much more complete as a rider. Perhaps in the past I wasn't ready to fight for a world title, whereas now I feel that I've ironed out my weaknesses and I'm ready for the challenge.

"Perhaps I co♔uld return to MotoGP one day as World Superbike champion, that really would be something very special."

La🦩verty is eleventh in the world championship standings and the second highest of the six satellite Ducatis. He claimed a career best fourth in Argentina and finished sixth in Sunday's wet Brno race.

With Laverty leaving, Yonny Hernandez is set to remain at Aspar alongside Bautista, 168澳洲幸运𝐆5官方开奖结果历史:thus completing the 2017 MotoGP rider line-up.