Suzuki MotoGP was the
factory-backed
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team of Japanese motorcycle manufacturer
Suzuki
is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ...
in the
MotoGP
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World Championship, most recently using the name Team Suzuki Ecstar for sponsorship purposes. Suzuki withdrew from MotoGP competition at the conclusion of the
2022
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season, winning their final race with
Álex Rins
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.
History
1970s
In
1971 *
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Events
Ja ...
, Grand Prix racer
Jack Findlay
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and his business partner Daniele Fontana constructed a racing motorcycle using a
Suzuki T series
The Suzuki T series was a series of motorcycle manufactured by Suzuki that ran from approximately 1963 through 1977 in various engine displacements between 90 and 500 cc.
Construction
All T-series engines used piston-ported, air-cooled, two ...
engine with a chassis of their own design.
[Jack Findlay obituary - The Telegraph](_blank)
/ref> Findlay rode the motorcycle to victory in the 1971 Ulster Grand Prix
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marking the first victory for a Suzuki motorcycle in the premier 500cc class, as well as the first-ever 500cc class victory for a motorcycle powered by a two stroke
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engine.
Suzuki
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first entered a works team in the 500cc Grand Prix
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World Championship in with riders Barry Sheene
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and Findlay riding the Suzuki RG500
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The RG"Gamma" 500 was directly based on the series of Suzuki RG Γ 500 Grand Prix motorcycle with almost identical feature ...
. The motorcycle was designed by Makoto Hase using the proven square-four, two stroke engine
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architecture that Suzuki had developed during their successful Grand Prix racing program in the 1960s. The RG 500 was proven successful in its first race at the 1974
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500cc French Grand Prix
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when, Barry Sheene
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finished in second place behind the defending world champion, Phil Read
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. The team's first victory came in , a pole-to-finish win by Barry Sheene
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Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier class of motorcycle road racing even ...
at the Dutch TT
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. Sheene finished the season 6th overall with two wins.
Having developed the RG500, Suzuki ceded direct control of their Grand Prix racing program to their British importer, Suzuki GB in 1976 so that, they could concentrate on developing they first four stroke
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motorcycle, the Suzuki GS series
The Suzuki GS series was Suzuki Motor Corporation's first full range of 4-stroke powered road motorcycles, having previously almost exclusively manufactured 2-stroke machines. Suzuki had produced the 4-stroke Colleda COX 125cc and 93cc 4-stroke ...
. Barry Sheene won the riders' championship in with a total of five wins.[ Sheene's second 500cc riders' championship came in with six wins. Teammate ]Steve Parrish
Stephen James Parrish (born 24 February 1953 in Cambridge, England) also known as "Stavros", is a British former professional motorcycle and truck racer, who is now a motorsport television commentator and speaker/entertainer.
Racing career
Pa ...
was fifth.
In with two wins on the new Suzuki RGA, Sheene finished second in the championship behind Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
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rider Kenny Roberts
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. Teammate Wil Hartog
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was fourth overall, also won two races. The championship was again won by Roberts with Virginio Ferrari
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Motorcycle racing career
Ferrari t ...
finishing second, Barry Sheene
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third and Wil Hartog
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fourth, all riding the new Suzuki RGB.[
]
1980s
Randy Mamola
Randy Mamola (born November 10, 1959) is an American former professional motorcycle racer and television sports presenter. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing between and . A 13-time Premier Class race winner, Mamola was one of the mo ...
and Graeme Crosby
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joined Suzuki in . While Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
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rider Roberts won his third title, Suzuki riders Mamola was second, and Marco Lucchinelli
Marco Lucchinelli (born 26 June 1954) is an Italian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was 1981 FIM Road Racing World Champion with Suzuki. He is a MotoGP Legend.
Career
Lucchinelli was born in Bolano.
He began his road ...
third. Lucchinelli became the 500cc World Champion in riding the new Suzuki RG 500 gamma
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The bike debuted in 1981 replacing the Suz ...
for the Roberto Gallina
Roberto Gallina (born 4 January 1940 in La Spezia) is a former Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing team owner. His best year was in 1973 when he finished eighth in the 250cc world championship. After his racing career ended, he st ...
racing team.
Lucchinelli left Suzuki
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to join Honda
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Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...
in . He was replaced on the Gallina team by Franco Uncini
Franco Uncini (born 9 March 1955) is an Italian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racing. He was 1982 FIM Road Racing World Champion with Suzuki. He was inducted into the F.I.M. MotoGP Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Career
Uncini w ...
who went on to win the World Championship with five wins. Uncini was severely injured at the Dutch TT
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at Assen
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in and was unable to defend his title. Suzuki withdrew factory support at the end of the season.[
After three years away ]Suzuki
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returned in with factory supported entries. While not a full-time return, riders Takumi Itoh and Kevin Schwantz
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Early life
Schwantz, whose parents owned a motorcycle shop, learned to ride ...
had some good results aboard the new Suzuki RGV500
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Suzuki factory racing te ...
. Suzuki made a full return to racing in with Schwantz finishing 8th overall with two wins whilst teammate Rob McElnea
Rob McElnea (born 12 December 1959) is a British former professional motorcycle road racer. At the peak of his career he raced six seasons in the MotoGP, then named 500cc Grand Prix Championship. He also competed for five years in the World Su ...
finished the season in 10th place.[ With a total of six wins, Schwantz was ranked fourth for the season.][
]
1990s
In Schwantz was second overall with five wins while teammate Niall Mackenzie
Niall Macfarlane Mackenzie (born 19 July 1961) is a Scottish former professional motorcycle road racer.
Career
Mackenzie, who hails from Fankerton, near Denny, Stirlingshire; won the British Superbike Championship three times from 1996 to ...
was 4th. Another five wins ranked Schwantz third overall in . Doug Chandler
John Douglas Chandler (born September 27, 1965) is an American former professional motorcycle racer. He earned a reputation as one of the most versatile racers of the 1980s and 1990s. Chandler is one of only four riders in AMA racing history to ...
became Schwantz's teammate for during which Schwantz enjoyed one win to finish the season fourth followed by Chandler's fifth place overall.
Schwantz won his long-awaited first World Championship in with four race wins. His new teammate Alex Barros
Alexandre Barros (born October 18, 1970) is a Brazilian former professional motorcycle road racer who is a 7-time 500cc/MotoGP race winner and also a race winner in Superbike World Championship. After a long Grand Prix career, in 2006 he moved ...
also scored a win and finished 6th overall.[
In , Schwantz was 4th overall with two wins whilst Barros was 8th.][ Early in the season, Schwantz decided to retire from motorcycle competition. The other Suzuki rider ]Daryl Beattie
Daryl Beattie (born 26 September 1970 in Charleville, Queensland, Australia) is a former Grand Prix solo motorcycle road racer.
Motorsport career
Beattie posted several good results at the beginning of the 1992 500cc Grand Prix season then te ...
finished the season second with two race wins.[
Scott Russell joined Beattie in . Russell finished the season 6th while Beattie suffered serious injuries pre-season and did not have his previous form. He finished 18th.][ Beattie was joined by ]Anthony Gobert
Anthony Gobert (born 5 March 1975 in Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia) is a former professional motorcycle road racer, nicknamed The Go Show. He was a rider of immense promise and talent who had his career derailed by a personal struggle ...
in . Beattie finished the season 11th and Gobert 15th. A fifth-place finish by Beattie was the team's best result that season.
Suzuki entered an all Japanese riders lineup in with Nobuatsu Aoki
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and Katsuaki Fujiwara
Katsuaki Fujiwara (born 27 March 1975 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) is a former professional Motorcycle sport, motorcycle racer. He last competed in the Asia Road Race Championship in the SS600 class aboard a Kawasaki ZX-6R, where h ...
. Fujiwara however was injured during pre-season tests and Aoki contested the world championship alone. He finished 9th for the season with a best result of 4th place. New rider Kenny Roberts Jr.
Kenneth Leroy Roberts Jr. (born July 25, 1973, in Mountain View, California) is an Americans, American former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle road racing, road racer who won the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing se ...
joined Aoki in . Roberts Jr. took Suzuki's first win in the four years since 1995. His four wins gave him second place in the championship. Aoki was 13th.[
]
2000s
Roberts became World Champion in with a total of four victories, Aoki was 10th overall.[
In 2001 ]Sete Gibernau
Manuel "Sete" Gibernau Bultó (born 15 December 1972) is a Spanish former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who is a 9-time 500cc/MotoGP race winner and a two-time overall runner-up in and . His racing career spans three different ...
joined Roberts riding the Suzuki RGV500
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Suzuki factory racing te ...
. Gibernau finished ninth overall and Roberts 11th.
In , the debut year of the new MotoGP
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class, Roberts and Gibernau rode the new Suzuki GSV-R
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four-stroke
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motorcycle. The team's best result was a 3rd-place podium finish by Roberts at the Brazilian Grand Prix
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. Overall, Roberts finished 9th and Gibernau 16th.[
John Hopkins joined Roberts in . Hopkins came seventh at the ]Spanish Grand Prix
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. However, Roberts missed three races due to a crash in the Italian Grand Prix
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and finished the season 19th two places behind Hopkins in 17th place.[ The rider line-up remained the same for while ]Bridgestone
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replaced Michelin
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as the team's tyre supplier. Hopkins finished the season 16th with Roberts Jr. again two places behind in 18th.[
Once again the rider line-up remained the same for , while Englishman Paul Denning became the new team manager taking over the position of Gary Taylor. Roberts took a second place podium-finish in the wet ]British Grand Prix
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but finished the season 13th. Hopkins finished 14th for the season.
Chris Vermeulen
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Vermeulen was b ...
joined Hopkins in . Hopkins finished the season 10th while Vermeulen finished 11th with a 2nd place podium-finish at the 2006 Australian Grand Prix
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.
Both riders stayed with the team in and raced the new 800cc Suzuki GSV-R
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. Vermeulen took Suzuki
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's first win since the advent of four-stroke regulations and finished the season 6th overall. Hopkins finished 4th with four podium finishes.
For 2008
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, Chris Vermeulen
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Vermeulen was b ...
was joined by Loris Capirossi
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He is a 9-time Premier Class race wi ...
as the rider lineup and the same lineup remained in 2009.
2010s
For the 2010 season Álvaro Bautista
Álvaro Bautista Arce (born 21 November 1984) is a Spanish motorcycle road racer. He won the 2022 Superbike World Championship, with Ducati factory team.
After the 2019 World Superbike season with the factory Ducati team, for 2020 and 2021 h ...
joined the team.
For the 2011 season, the team fielded only one GSV-R for Bautista with no replacement for Loris Capirossi, who moved to the Pramac Racing
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team. At the end of 2011, Suzuki pulled out of MotoGP citing the need to reduce costs amid the global economic downturn.
In June 2013, Suzuki announced that they would return to MotoGP
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with a factory team in 2015. On 30 September 2014, Suzuki confirmed that it would participate in MotoGP from 2015
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, with Aleix Espargaró
Aleix Espargaró Villà (born 30 July 1989) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was thSpanish 2004 FIM CEV 125cc International Champion and currently competes in the MotoGP class for Aprilia Racing team.
Career
Espargaró was bo ...
and Maverick Viñales
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as their two riders. They raced a newly developed MotoGP machine, the GSX-RR, with a restructured team organisation led by Davide Brivio
Davide Brivio (born 17 March 1988) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender.
Club career
Brivio started his professional career at Atalanta.
Fiorentina
On 30 August 2005, Brivio left Atalanta, who had just been relegated to Serie B, to ...
.
2020s
In 2020
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, Suzuki secured the team's title for the first time, while rider Joan Mir
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secured the rider's title, becoming the first Suzuki rider to do so since Kenny Roberts Jr.
Kenneth Leroy Roberts Jr. (born July 25, 1973, in Mountain View, California) is an Americans, American former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle road racing, road racer who won the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing se ...
in 2000
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.
On 12 May 2022, Suzuki announced they were "...in discussions with Dorna regarding the possibility of ending its participation in MotoGP at the end of 2022". Suzuki were reported to have contractual obligations to participate until 2026. Suzuki won two of their final three races in Australia
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and Valencia
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.
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