Ken Kawauchi viewed the 2021 season as a hard yearMir and Rins gave Suzuki’s new ride height adjuster its debut at round 1013thanks to the work done in Japan. The biggest improvements, however, were not made with one big thing, but many small things. The ride height adjuster was something very noticeable but behind the scenes there were other things being tried and tested. I feel that each race we improved a little bit, which overall helped our performance and brought us to where we are now.One of the things that we’ve heard a lot this year is ‘the GSX-RR needs more power, more top speed’ but it’s not straight forward; if you increase the power you have to balance out the rest of the machine so as not to lose out in other areas. So, it’s always about balance and a complete package – we need to improve everywhere, not just in engine power. Top speed and power demands change track by track or case by case, what you need from the bike changes depending on the track. My job is to not react too much to each request and instead keep in mind the overall picture. We’ve already improved the engine compared with 2020, but we need another step. We will have a busy winter with lots of things to try. Another thing I want to do as we enter the winter break, is to thank our riders. Despite our performance sometimes not being enough this year compared with the other manufacturers, or even compared with 2020, Joan always gave 100 per cent and sometimes even more. He did a great job, and he brought us some podiums and I want to thank him for his hard work. Together we’ll try to prepare a stronger bike and we want to challenge again next year. Alex also showed determination, and at the beginning of the season especially, he had good speed, but in the end he couldn’t get the results he wanted, or we wanted. Having said that, I still fully trust in his ability to compete at the top level in MotoGP. With improvements next year I’m sure we can achieve much better results than this year.” Team SUZUKI ECSTARMotoGP
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