Together with the confirmation that Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinale🐼s will lead its ret🍨urn to MotoGP in 2015, Suzuki has also revealed more details about its bike, which will be known as the GSX-RR.

Suzuki 'suspended' its MotoGP activities due to t𒁏he fওinancial crisis at the end of 2011 - having won just one race since the switch from 500cc two-strokes to four-strokes in 2002 - but has taken part in official tests for the last two years as it develops a new Inline four-cylinder motorcycle codenamed the XRH-1.

Suzuki's previous MotoGP entry, the GSV-R, was powered by a V4 engine. All MotoGP engines must have four cylinders - Honda and Ducati use a V configuration, while Yamaha has an Inline layout.

"The development of the GSX-RR was started in 2012 with the aim to achieve high performance in ☂the MotoGP class, as well as to give technology feedback to production models such as the GSX-R r🍌ange," read a statement from the team.

"It utilises a newly-developed in-line four-cylinder engine that realizes a strong, flexible engine♎ character, fuel efficiency, and durability at a high level.

"The frame has a layout that keeps its width slim for both manoeuvrability and aerodynamic performances, and optimizes body strength and weight balance. "The aim was to develop a highly competitive MotoGP machine that can bring out the straightforward manoeuvrability developed over the years with the GSX-R."

As a new manufacturer - defined as entering MotoGP for the first since 2013 - Suzuki will be able to enjoy the same performance concessions as the Open category until 2016, when a control ECU will be mandatory.

The benefits include four litres more race fuel than the normal Factory class, twelve instead of five engine changes during the season, no engine devel♎opment freeze, a softer rear tyre and greater testing opportunities. The fuel and then tyre benefits can be removed if a ce🧸rtain number of dry top three results are obtained.

Ducati's machines compete under the same regulations, since they also apply to any continuing manufacturer that did not claim a dry win during 2013. Aprilia will be the third factory competing with those benefits, having chosen to return a year earlier than originally planned, in 2015.
Basic specification of the GSX-RR:

Overall length x width x height: 2,096mm x 720mm x 1,140mm. Wheelbase: 1,457mm. Body weight: 160kg (based on FIM regulation). Engine type: Water-cooled, four-stroke in-line four-cylinder, DOHC four-valve. Displacement: 1,000cm3. Maximum output: Over 169kw (230PS). Frame type: Twin-spar aluminum. Tyres (front/rear): 16.5in/16.5in. Front suspension: Ohlins, inverted fork. Rear suspension: Ohlins. Brakes (front/rear): Carbon disk/steel disk, Brembo.

Suzuki's 500cc World Champions:
Barry Sheene (1976 and 1977)
Marco Lucchinelli (1981)
Franco Uncini (1982)
Kevin Schwantz (1993)
Kenny Roberts Jr (2000)