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We already have regional superbike series like AMA, British, and all japan with factory involvement. In North america, it is American honda who supports and pay for factory team in AMA. They pushed Nicky, AMA champion, over Edwards to promote him to GP. The north america accounts for more than half of hondas overall mortorcycle sales, so their opinion weigh with honda. I've heard there was big debate over who should pay for the cost of participating in wsbk at honda. They eventually decided not to participate this year. WSBK wants to be global, but the manufactures are regionalized. Nobody wants to pay for Wsbk unless it is really attractive in marketing or offer some technical challenge different than regional superbike like motogp.
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