Veteran crewchief Gary Medley--who has worked with Doug Chandler for the last five years--is rumored to be leaving the Kawasaki Superbike team to work with Doug Chandler at HMC Ducati.

Medley has not returned repeated calls for comment.

If true, this will be yet another blow to Kawasaki, which lost Al Ludington last Fall. Ludington worked with Eric Bostrom at Kawasaki but left the green team for Honda.