Just at the moment when the MotoGP World Championship live moments of euphoria, reflected in an almost unique fact and that shows to what level the most prestigious two-wheel championship has reached, with the classification of the six brands that officially participate in the contest in the first six positions of the race from Portimao (Portugal)won by Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), followed by a Ducati (Johann Zarco), an Aprilia (Aleix Espargaró), a Suzuki (Àlex Rins), a KTM (Miguel Oliveira) and a Honda (Marc Márquez)just then, the firm Suzuki, as reported motorsport.comintends to announce, in the next few days, perhaps hours, that, after this season, he will leave the paddock and will once again star in an unexpected event, since the news has been a real bomb in the championship, since nobody expected something So.
Suzuki, who has already left the World Championship twice and returned to it twice, first with Aleix Espargaró and then with Joan Mir and Àlex Rins, has announced to the members of his team that he does not intend to continue, apparently because The leadership of executives who run the company in Hamamatsu (Japan) consider that the investment is very high and the results caused by the pandemic prevent them from maintaining their commitment to continue competing at the highest level, at least until the 2026 World Cup, which It is when the contract with the organization of the World Cup expires.
A bolt from the blue
No one, no one, has opened their mouths so far. Everything seems to indicate that Suzuki will make an official statement in the next few hours, but the news, confirmed by several sources, has been a surprise, a blow and an injustice for all the workers of the blue firm team, which, in the 2020, at the hands of Mallorcan Joan Mir, he recovered the world title of the highest category.
Everything, everything, has been produced with the stealth and determination, they say, that the Japanese work. The words offered ‘of the record’ by the workers of the MotoGP Suzuki ‘team’ show the perplexity caused by the information and the announcement that their bosses have provided them, in Jerez, where, after the GP, a test in which Mir and Rins have participated.
Uncertain future
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The truth is that, according to information in El Periódico, the arrival of the Italian Livio Suppoas the new ‘team manager’, a role that he had already developed in the Repsol Honda team, led to the assumption that, after a year without the highest authority due to the departure of his compatriot, David Brivio, to the Alpine F-1 team, everything was back in the hands of good professionals. What’s more, the first thing Suppo did, already at the first Grand Prix of the season, held in Doha, Qatar, was to assure Mir and Rins that their contract would be renewed for at least two more seasons. Moreover, there are those who assure that Rins was already about to sign his renewal. Contacted by gppone.com, Suppo declined to comment and would neither confirm nor deny the news.
Nobody knows what the reaction of the organization of the World Cup will be, in the hands of Dorna and the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), but it is assumed that they will try to convince the Japanese firm to desist from leaving the ‘paddock’ or, even , who knows, trying to get a team, perhaps a newly created one, to get hold of the material and the development of future Suzuki motorcycles, allowing the Hamamatsu brand to continue competing without investing so much money.