Suzuki has reached an agreement with MotoGP promoter Dorna and will leave the World Championships at the end of the 2022 season, a Japanese manufacturer announced Wednesday.
At the beginning of May, the team proceeded with the decision to leave discipline at the end of the season, noting that “the current economic situation” and “we need to focus on the major changes that the industry world will bring.” Facing each other. “motor”.
However, Spanish promoter Dorna Sports has “officially contacted” the manufacturer to remind them of the terms and conditions signed by 2026. This prevented him from “one-sidedly making this decision.”
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“Suzuki Motor Corporation and Dorna have reached an agreement to end Suzuki’s participation in MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season,” the manufacturer said Wednesday.
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Suzuki also announced in its statement that it will end its participation in the World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the end of the season.
Suzuki, the historic team of Continental Circus, left MotoGP at the end of 2011 before returning to 2015.
In 2020, thanks to Spanish Joan Mir, he won the title of Driver’s World Champion and the title of the best team. Instead, the manufacturer’s title has always avoided him in modern times, as all seven of his crowns came with the previous 500cc Premier Class between 1976 and 1982.
Mir and his teammate and fellow countryman Alex Rins could reach the first Honda of the Japanese brand’s official team, robbing leader Marc Marquez for two years and sacrificing a series of crashes and operations. I did. According to professional reports, it is the second of the Honda-LCR satellite team.
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