With motorsport.com advancing and Mundo Deportivo confirmed, on Monday at the Jerez circuit where the post-race test was held, Suzuki officials informed team members of Hamamatsu’s decision to abandon the race again. star category of the Speed World Championship, news that surprised the members of the blue team.
It is expected that this Tuesday the Hamamatsu leadership will make the news official and give the reasons driving the abandonment of the Motorcycle World Championship for the second time this century — this refers to the economic reasons that stemmed from the crisis- when April 2021 they also signed the continuation of the championship for the season 2022-26 and in 2020 they won the world championship for riders with Joan Mir and the teams for Suzuki Ecstar, which lost the Triple Crown with Ducati to take factories.
Suzuki is a historic brand that started the World Championship in 1960, winning the world’s first crowns in the 500cc along with Barry Sheene (1976-1977), Marco Lucchinelli (1981), Franco Uncini (1982), Kevin Schwantz (1993 ) and Kenny Roberts Jr. (2000). Suzuki became one of the strongest teams in world championships in the 1970s, winning four titles between 1976 and 1982. But at the end of the campaign in 1983 they announced an initial farewell at the World Championship returning in 1987 and competing until the end of the 500cc season, added two more titles including Schwantz and Roberts Jr., and the start of MotoGP at 990cc and the following 800cc at GSV-R, which were less successful .
But in November 2011, when they had to prepare for the son -in -law, the 1000cc MotoGP season, they provided a new folder. with the official announcement of a new departure from the World Cup saying “this decision was made to try to deal with the difficult situation, caused by the prolonged recession in developed countries, the historical appreciation of the Japanese Yen and recent disasters. To return to MotoGP competition in 2014, Suzuki will now focus on developing new and competitive racing bikes. Suzuki will continue its involvement in motocross racing. “
They finally came back in 2015 with the new and successful Suzuki GSX-RR in the hands of Italian Davide Brivio who re-launched the project with his policy of uniting Japan with Europe and betting on young riders, such as Maverick Viñales, Álex Rins and Joan Mir that in 2020 Hamamatsu gave him the new crown of pilots.
But an offer from Alpine F1 prompted Brivio’s surprise farewell shortly before the start of the 2021 preseason, which they tried to reduce by putting project leader Sahara, an engineer, in management, and only realized this year they have to return the number to a manager by signing Livio Suppo who is in the process with managers Joan Mir and Alex Rins to keep them for two more years. But now everything has exploded just three months after Suppo signed on with the decision to leave MotoGP.
The big loser, in addition to all the very good staff of the MotoGP team, is the championship from six to five official brands at a time where they even expect Suzuki to put two more bikes on the track to have a private team like of a brand other than Aprilia.
Source: La Verdad
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