You know, I was also hoping for the Ninja to become a reasonably priced competitor to the NR engines, but it seems that Mario, although he took a lot of knowledge with him, missed out on a few important things, mainly metallurgy.

The piston material makes or breaks an engine power wise and the correct steel will make a crankshaft last, not snap.

It is correct, that they had a few very good results, mainly in 1:10th, but overall they never got it right.

After seeing all the team drivers switch to other brands and GRP releasing their own label, I would expect to get the divorce of Mugen and Ninja confirmed at the Nuremberg show in February.