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The bomb news of the season, advanced by Motorsport.com , could not be other than the surprise and unilateral announcement by Suzuki to leave the MotoGP World Championship at the end of this year.
Uri Puigdemont and Germán Garcia Casanova analyze in our usual Motorsport.com Podcast-MotoGP the keys surrounding this unexpected and unforeseen scare of the Japanese manufacturer, which is not the first, since it starred in one in 2011, but unlike then, now it has done so by having signed a permanence contract with the promoter, Dorna, until the end of 2026, an agreement that has been carried forward and that, logically, will have consequences at all levels.
On a human level, Suzuki’s move is absolutely reprehensible, both in substance, leaving all its MotoGP employees out of work, and in form, since the announcement came unexpectedly in the team’s box on Monday of the MotoGP test. Sherry, so cold that it left the entire staff in a state of shock.
And on a sporting level, the effect of this announcement will leave consequences of incalculable consequences, both for the championship, which loses one of its constructors and two bikes on the grid, and for the rider market, which is now absolutely shaken with two riders from very high level, such as Joan Mir and Alex Rins , free and without a contract for 2023.
Dorna stopped Suzuki Japan, who had planned an official statement the day after the news was known, and almost ten days later we are waiting for an explanation that, by simple logic and mental hygiene, must arrive before the start, this weekend, of the French Grand Prix.
From here, the rumors and speculations about transfers and renewals, as well as the possible movements to fill the two places that remain free on the grid, will be the talk of the next few weeks in a championship that has been absolutely convulsed by the irreparable damage that the supreme leadership of Hamamatsu has perpetrated by making an incomprehensible decision.
