Randy de Puniet gave the Suzuki MotoGP a two-day shakedown test at Motegi and the Hamamatsu manufacturer will be testing in MotoGP’s Monday’s post-race test in Barcellona, before heading to Aragon for further testing.
Davide Brivio is reportedly to become the team manager behind the effort and apparently has already found a couple places in Italy where to run the team from, the only thing missing – besides the burning question of who will be riding the new bike – is the ‘exsisting team’ that Suzuki will need in order to return to the championship in 2014, but this quest seems to turning out to be more difficult than one would have expected.
According to Spanish website motocuatro.
com Dorna suggested that Suzuki offer 1.
6 million euros to buy their place into one of the private teams, but apparently no team – even if most of them are cash strapped and some aren’t even competitive – are willing to accept that price and are asking between five and six million euros.
Supposedly trying to shaft Suzuki has not gone down well with Dorna – who subsidizes all the teams in various amounts – and could be thinking of increasing the MotoGP grid in in order to allow Suzuki to partecipate, which no doubt would make the Japanese manufacturer much happier because they would have more control and be on the same level of Honda, Yamaha and Ducati.