BBC Top Gear Magazine

What’s been Suzuki’s best moment?

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Suzuki started entering its bikes into the Isle of Man TT races as early as but it wasn’t until later in the next decade that it would find lasting success on the world sporting stage Midway through the Seventies Japanese manufactur­ers began to overhaul Italian manufactur­er MV Agusta as the undisputed kings of fast motorbikes Yamaha won its first constructo­rs’ title in the premier ƒ cc class „now called MotoGP‡ in ˆ‰ and two years later Suzuki achieved the same feat And there it remained until Š‹ winning seven championsh­ips in a row as the likes of Barry Sheene Marco Lucchinell­i and Franco Uncini all took turns claiming the drivers’ crown in that period

Suzuki machinery has also won the motorcycle edition of the Le Mans ‹‰“Hour Race on – occasions „just one behind record holder Kawasaki‡ doing so for the first time in Š‹

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