With the 2019 MotoGP season now at its mid-point, we sat down with Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Team Manager Davide Brivio ahead of the summer break to discuss just what has made this season one to remember for all of Team Suzuki. Alex Rins currently sits in 4th place in the MotoGP championship standings, after ffive Top 5 finishes and one win. Meanwhile, team rookie Joan Mir has recently turned around a run of bad luck to take two Top 10 finishes, and a best ever qualifying of 5th at Assen. With the Spanish duo increasingly bringing their GSX-RRs to top results, Brivio explains how the team work ethic plays a big part in this success…“Over the last couple of years we’ve created a strong work ethic and our team are all very close. This has allowed us do positive work with Alex Rins that has grown a lot since his arrival in 2016. Alex has a lot of talent and is also a wise person, open to advices and willing to work in a team with engineers and technicians. This has helped us, because 0303TEAM SUZUKI RACING NEWSTEAM SUZUKI RACING NEwSwe find receptive ground in him. The same work ethic has allowed us to guide Joan in a good direction early on, and he has found it much easier to settle in and to communicate with the team around him. When you have a rookie on the team, his contribution to development is perhaps quite limited due to lack of experience, but Joan has already given us hints about his capability to select and determine the best solutions for his own riding style.”garnered a reputation for being a ‘Sunday Rider’. But while Rins’ ability to recuperate a race weekend is something which impresses Brivio, he reveals that it’s in no way a deliberate tactic…about a lot recently, and some people have almost suggested that our bike isn’t suitable for fast lap, or that we’re not giving our all on a Friday or Saturday, or even that Alex isn’t capable of an ‘attack lap’. But of course we would like to qualify as high up as possible, In the first half of the season, Alex Rins has “It’s something which has been talked always. In Assen Alex worked really hard to make his way into Q2 following an unlucky FP3 session, and although he is incredibly good at making his way through the field and putting in a great Sunday performance, our focus is still on the front row of the grid wherever possible. In terms of our bike, we always aim to have a well rounded machine which performs in all circumstances. Although it can sometimes be easier to set-up for a race than for a 15-minute qualifying session, there is no reason why the bike cannot put in a hot lap like any other manufacturer out there. Sometimes we just need a bit of luck on our side.”Despite such a promising start to the 2019 season, Davide Brivio explains that engineers in Europe and Japan are still working very closely and very hard to bring constant improvements to this year’s bike. “We liaise constantly between Japan and Europe, with many visits throughout the season - the European branch visit the factory in Hamamatsu, and the Japanese technicians and engineers visit the races in Europe. No matter how good our results are, you must always be pushing for more in this sport, and for that reason we are thinking every day of how to get that bit extra and to improve more and perform better.”With the second half of the season promising even more of what we’ve seen so far; incredibly close races, unpredictable outcomes, and fierce competition, Team SUZUKI ECSTAR are ready to resume their place as one of the smallest but most determined and promising teams in the entire paddock. Watch this space. 2019 Issue #1 - Summer2019 Issue #1 - SummerHow Team SUZUKI ECSTAR managed to develop GSX-RR and “WE LIAISE CONSTANTLY vISITS THROUGHOUT THE BETWEEN JAPAN AND EUROPE, WITH MANY SEASON...”riders to arrive among the best.DAvIDe BRIvIO BLOG “A strong work ethic”
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