KTM back in Dakar?

The Dakar is listing Marc Coma and other KTM riders as participants in next year’s race, despite last month’s news that KTM quit Dakar. The reason seems to be that the rally has partially pushed back the 450cc limit until 2012, instead allowing larger capacity bikes to run restrictors in next year’s Elite class, reducing that class to a mandatory 450cc limit in 2011 with other classes running restrictors that year then effecting an all-class 450cc limit in 2012. KTM originally quit because it currently races 654cc bikes in the Argentinean race and because many racers and teams don’t feel a 450cc bike would be able to go the 5,950-mile distance.
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