The MotoGP paddock is regularly awash in various levels of rumor—some of which are worth paying attention to, and some of which aren’t. When rumblings about the Suzuki MotoGP team wanting to pull out at the end of the 2022 season started trickling out at the beginning of May, they were awfully hard to ignore. Although nothing was official yet, Dorna Sports issuing a public statement reminding Suzuki that it couldn’t make such a decision on its own only threw more fuel on what was already a fire of significant size.
On May 12, 2022, Suzuki Motor Corporation officially announced that it is now in talks with Dorna “regarding the possibility of ending its participation in MotoGP at the end of 2022.” Why would Suzuki suddenly be champing at the bit to get out of MotoGP, particularly after Joan Mir’s 2020 riders’ championship win with the team, not to mention the recent contract signing to stay in the paddock until 2026?
