MotoGP: Suzuki in Barcelona with engine evolutions
Aleix Espargarò and Maverick Vinales ready to give everything in their home race
Suzuki MotoGP Grand Prix Barcelona – Team Suzuki arrives in Barcelona with high hopes. The Hamamatsu manufacturer, led by our Davide Brivio, expects a great weekend in the home race of its riders, Aleix Espargarò and Maverick Vinales. The former, fresh from the operation on his right hand carried out after the Le Mans race and the crash at Mugello, expects a positive weekend, while the young rookie will try to improve on his seventh place in the Italian Grand Prix, his best result in the MotoGP. To help them new engine parts from the GSX-RR.
“The Catalunya Grand Prix will be magical for me; it will be my home race and I will have a lot of support from friends and fans. I come from a difficult weekend at Mugello, which must be cancelled: I struggled a lot in the sessions and, finally, I was the victim of a contact that ended my race immediately – said Aleix Espargarò – My GSX-RR demonstrated of having a good performance in this first part of the season and my feeling is that we still haven't achieved the results we deserved. In Barcelona we will have some new parts and I am very curious to see how our bike will be improved. I know that in Japan our engineers are working very hard because we fully believe in the project, so I'm looking forward to doing my best and having a positive weekend.”
“It will be a unique emotion to race on my home circuit as an official driver. I come from a positive series of results and every time I take to the track with my GSX-RR I feel better and better and the last race in Mugello gave me a lot of satisfaction – explained Maverick Vinales – I'm pretty sure that I will like riding on the Circuit of Catalunya with Suzuki; it's a fast track and our bike proved to be very good to ride thanks to its chassis. We will also have improvements for the engine, I'm really curious to try them. I am aware that I still have a lot to learn, in particular my team and I are working on session and tire management, to improve the pace, but also to be more effective in qualifying and enter Q2 to then have a good position on the grid . This will be the key to the future.”
Photos: Alex Farinelli
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...in MotoGP Suzuki only wastes money, it should have concentrated on SBK like the legendary and immeasurable Kawa...in MotoGP not even Ducati will win anymore, it will be a Honda/Yamaha deal for hundreds of years...
Think how many the "immeasurable" Kawasaki has wasted in the world championship over the course of its history.
And when she was in MotoGP, many claimed that she was among those who spent the most.
The SBK? Category that was destroyed by licensed idiots? And that to find some space he must rally the old guard (read today's news regarding Max and Aprilia)?
Come on, next season they will call Fogarty or Chili or Edwards to report.
I wouldn't boast about winning in the current SBK, seeing as it was devastated.
Well last year's World Championship doesn't make your immeasurable Kawasaki so legendary :).
...I've had a lot of fun in recent years, that's enough for me...the SBK world championship may be inferior but we win and you make people laugh, a fact...you'll see, it can only get worse ahahahahahah!!! Not even Barbera would save Suzuki...
Last year you lost the title to Guintoli!
Guintoli…. This is enough to make you understand how the SBK is set up (but you are not able to understand).
I didn't write that it's an inferior world championship, but that it's no longer the real SBK, there's no point in hiding it and if you have an ounce of brains (I doubt it given what you write) you should see it for yourself.
Winning in this SBK is not a boast.
It's a source of pride to have Rea, the best rider currently in SBK and, I dare say, the only phenomenon there is.
The rest of the group?
Kawasaki focuses ONLY on SBK, a much less demanding and affordable category than MotoGP.
Suzuki in SBK behaves like Honda, that is, not achieved. Ditto BMW.
Ducati has a technically limited project (for reasons that you cannot understand) and above all it has two riders who are anything but phenomena (Giuliano is a phenomenon, but from another aspect... I saw her at the Eicma and her way of behaving leaves a lot to be desired).
Aprilia ditto... Torres (forget it) and Haslam who is the shadow of what he was until a few years ago.
Come on fatman, winning in a Championship that has been destroyed, where the level of drivers is at an all-time low, with few manufacturers investing and banging their heads seriously, because it's not worth it.
Meanwhile, we're here in MotoGP, you've disappeared and aren't coming back for fear of cashing in on them by spending top team amounts.
In short, you were the Toyota (F1) of MotoGP.
We saw how much you won in the MotoGP, even though you were the ones who spent the most.
Since there is no other way to discuss with you, could you write to me how many titles Verdona has won in the Top Class (MotoGP) and how many Suzuki titles?
:)