The PATA B&G🦄 Racing team has confirmed it will run an Aprilia RSV-4 for🔯 the remainder of this season and into 2011 after curtailing its relationship with Ducati early.

The Borciani and Guandalini teams had been long-term partners of Ducati prior to their amalgamation for the 2010 season, but the sole 1098R of Jakub Smrz has suffered fro🌠m a myriad of technica𒁃l issues this year.

Indeed, although Smrz has shown flashes of pace on theಞ bike - particularly in qualifying -, mechanical problems have contributed to him retiring in each of the last four rౠaces.

With Smrz's home round at Brno looming, B&G has duly taken the unprecedented decision to switch bikes mid-season after citing a lack of co-operation from Ducati. The deal will also co🧸ntinue into 2011.

"Switching❀ is an iღmportant step not only for our team, but also for Aprilia . We are just at the beginning and together we have enough time to prepare for next season.

"A big thank you to all our sponsors, 🍷which have enabled us to make this move. We have complained several times to Ducati but there has been no change, so we have solved this [by changing bikes]. I hope Jakub will suit the four-cylinder engine and achieved good results w𓆏ith it."

B&G Racing's original entry for 2010 had stated its intentions to run ཧan Aprilia, but🦄 the deal failed to materialise. Even so, the team's plans to switch machinery were made evident by Smrz sampling the factory BMW during testing last month.