sorry profit meaning selling engines/technology to the lower teams such as scot or gresini, and customers the same. i was under the impression it was much like f1 where as manufacturers such as ferrari and renult sold engines to teams like red bull and toro rosso, but apparently not so much I didnt take into effect the keyword support, not customer and i know i am a honda guy and this may seem like a biased opinion, but its not i swear, i dont see where honda isnt a competitive bike??? pedrosa had a chance with the bike the whole year. he was leading the championship at the start of the season and if it werent for a couple of mistakes pedrosa made he would have been in the hunt all season... i know they havent won a world championship since 2006 but they have been there fighting for the championship since and i doubt that they are just going to set aside a perfectly raceable bike. unlike the f1 situation where they only scored 10 points in the whole season between two drivers.