Billy MacKenzie has signed a two year deal with the British based CAS Honda Team. Who Billy's teammate will be for next year has to be decided yet. Ken de Dijcker is leaving the team and goes to the Suzuki Team of Sylvain Geboers. The American Mike Brown is talking with several teams for next year. Neil Prince the team manager of the CAS Honda team is excited to have Mackenzie on the Honda 450cc machine. Prince has wanted to sign Mackenzie in the past and with the contract signed Prince can now look forward to preparing for the teams assault on the 08 championship.
"Working with Billy is really exciting, he is a GP winner and knows what it takes to be on top of the podium. Billy has shown great results in recent time and his British championship performances have also been impressive. Billy is one of the riders who works for his results and that is what we are looking for."