Suzuki has officially confirmed its plan to leave the MotoGP World Championship

Suzuki leaves the MotoGP World Championship. The news promoted a few days ago was confirmed on Thursday when the Japanese team released a statement in which it expressed their desire to leave the competition.

“Suzuki Motor Corporation talks to Dorna about the possibility of ending its participation in MotoGP by the end of 2022“started writing the brand, regretting that” the current economic situation and the need to focus its efforts on the major changes in the automotive world it faces in these years are forcing Suzuki to shift costs and resources of people to develop new technologies.

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“We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our team Suzuki Ecstar, to all who have supported Suzuki’s motorcycle racing activities over the years and to all the Suzuki fans who have given us their enthusiastic support. “

Suzuki is a historic brand that started at the World Championship in 1960 who captured his first world crowns in the 500cc with Barry Sheene (1976-1977), Marco Lucchinelli (1981), Franco Uncini (1982), Kevin Schwantz (1993) and Kenny Roberts Jr. (2000).

The brand became one of the strongest teams in the World Cup in the 1970s, winning four titles between 1976 and 1982.. But at the end of the campaign in 1983 they announced their first farewell to the World Championship, returning in 1987 and competing until the end of the 500cc season, adding two more titles with Schwantz and Roberts Jr., and the start of MotoGP in 990cc and the following 800cc. with the GSV-R being less successful.

But in November 2011 when they had to prepare for the son-in-law 1000cc MotoGP season, they provided a new shelf with the official announcement of a new departure from the World Championship. which previously said that “this decision was made to try to deal with difficult conditions, caused by the prolonged recession in developed countries, the historical appreciation of the Japanese Yen and recent natural disasters. With the aim of returning to competition. at MotoGP in 2014, Suzuki will now focus on developing new and competitive racing bikes. Suzuki will continue its involvement in motocross racing. “

They finally returned in 2015 with the new and successful Suzuki GSX-RR in the hands of Italian Davide Brivio. who re-promoted the project with its policy of uniting Japan with Europe and betting on young drivers, such as Maverick Viñales, Álex Rins and Joan Mir, who in 2020 gave Hamamatsu a new crown of drivers.

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 need to return the number to a manager. signed Livio Suppo who is in the process with managers Joan Mir and Alex Rins to keep them for another two 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 that will reach six to five official brands at a time where they still expect Suzuki to put two more bikes on the track to have a private team like other brands except Aprilia.