Judge orders Musquin back on Hondas!
By TMX Archives on 3rd Jul 09
THE Tribunal of Grande Justice in Le Havre and the Appeal Court have spoken. French rider, Marvin Musquin, who currently leads the World MX2 Championnship, must return to race for NGS Honda and break all contact to the KTM factory and KTM France for the remainder of this year.
After ten-days of deliberation, the judge at the Tribunal came to the concusion that the French teenager is legally contracted to NGS Honda until December 31, 2009.
In consequence he ordered Musquin to pay compensation of 150,000 Euros to NGS for his failure to respect the binding contract.
In addition KTM Matighofen and KTM France were ordered to end all association with Musquin within 48-hours of the dcecision or find themselves liable to a fine of 15,000 Euros per day. This order remains in force until December 31, 2009.
Further to that, Musquin and KTM were ordered to pay the legal costs incurred by NGS in bringing the case to court, totalling €5,000, plus a fine for the contravention of civil law of €6,000.
The NGS Honda team, travelling direct from the GP in Latvia last weekend, arrived at Uddevalla (Sweden) on Thursday with four machines for Cedric Soubeyras and Jason Clermont. NGS mechanics were busy preparing Soubeyras' second bike on Friday morning for Musquin to race this weekend.