Motor Sport Magazine

MAT OXLEY

“Suzuki works so well because it fuses strong work from Japan and Italy”

DAVID AND GOLIATH STORIES always brighten up the racing world, and the story of Suzuki’s 2020 world championship MotoGP success – its first since 2002 – is one such tale. The Hamamatsu manufacturer has a much smaller race department that Honda, Ducati and Yamaha and punches above its weight thanks to people who know how to make the most of what they’ve got – financially, mechanically and philosophically.

Suzuki suffered in the early years of four-stroke MotoGP,

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