The soap opera is over. Suzuki and Dorna announced on Wednesday an agreement to end the Japanese team’s participation in the MotoGP World Championship at the end of the 2022 season, as well as his farewell to the World Endurance Championship (EWC).
“We will continue to compete in the 2022 MotoGP and EWC championships, maintaining our highest effort to win the remaining races. Our goal is to continue to support the career activities of our customers through our global network of distributors.Suzuki explained in a press release.
“We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the Suzuki fans who have given us their enthusiastic support and to all those who have supported Suzuki’s motorcycle racing activities over the years. I will continue to do my best to support Alex Rins and Joan Mir to compete with competition until the end of the season.“added its president, Toshihiro Suzuki.
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, back 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 at 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 his 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 the 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 realized in 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 the decision to leave MotoGP.
The big loser, in addition to all the very good staff of the MotoGP team, is the championship which is from 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 any other brand except Aprilia.
Source: La Verdad
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