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The last couple of years have proved that Suzuki’s current race department knows how to build a MotoGP bike and how to go racing. Thus when Suzuki returned in 2015 with its all-new GSX-RR inline-four the paddock wasn’t sure how serious were the company’s intentions. At the end of 2010 the factory shrunk its team to a one-rider operation and then to zero riders at the end of 2011. Its 1000cc and 800cc V4s never worried Ducati, Honda or Yamaha, taking just one race win in 11 seasons, at rainy Le Mans in 2007, with Chris Vermeulen onboard. Since the advent of MotoGP Suzuki has had a mostly horrible time. So I turned to Garry and said, ‘Sorry, I’m out of here’.” I said, ‘Really, how come?’ And they said, ‘Because our GSX-R1000 streetbike outsells Honda’s CBR1000’. ‘Our four-stroke technology is more advanced than Honda’s’. So I said, ‘Well, Honda are doing this and that’. “I asked Suzuki a couple of questions about four-stroke development: ‘Are you doing this or that?’,” said Willing, who lost his battle with cancer in 2015. In 2001 he travelled to Hamamatsu with Roberts and team manager Garry Taylor to discuss development of Suzuki’s first four-stroke GP bike, the GSV-R V4. Willing poured all his Yamaha YZR500 knowhow into KRJR’s RGV, battling a race department thousands of miles away that thought it knew better. “We are showing serious consistency and the most difficult part of this championship is to always be on the podium” In 1999 he joined Suzuki at the behest of ‘King’ Kenny Roberts, so he could give KRJR a winning bike. Willing was one of the men who worked magic at Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha during the 1980s and 1990s. The man largely responsible for Suzuki’s 2000 success was Australian Warren Willing, who became a self-taught engineer after a massive crash at the 1979 North West 200 ended his racing career. Its presence in the championship has often been half-hearted, which is why Álex Rins’ victory and Joan Mir’s third place was only the company’s seventh double podium since the early 1980s. Suzuki has long had a strange relationship with GP racing, dipping in and out, unlike Honda and Yamaha, and failing to put more than two bikes on the grid since the days of its RG500 two-stroke in the early 1980s. The last time the company led a premier-class title chase was way back in grand prix racing’s two-stroke era, when Kenny Roberts Jr won the penultimate 500cc title in 2000, riding an RGV500. Suzuki took the lead in the four-stroke MotoGP world championship for the first time at Aragon on Sunday.
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