Three-time Moto3 🌊race winner Tatsuki Suzukiꦺ has announced his retirement from racing.

Suzuki posted on Instagram saying simply “Thank you and goodbye,” with a longer explaꦚnation posted to YouTube.

The video, 96 seconds long, is in Italian – the Japanese rider having lived in Italy for the majority of his racing career – and explains that making the decision to retire wasn’t “easy”, and came about because he was unable to secure a ride for the upcoming ▨2025 season.

"Hi, I'm Tatsu Suzuki, and I wanted to ಞtell yo🥀u that I'm going to stop racing this year,” he said.

“I've been a rider for twenty years, and this decision was definitely not easy. I made this decision because I couldn't 𝔉continue racing in a place where I always dreamt🅰 of being since I was a child. So I decided to change my goals for the future.

“There have been so many good times, some more difficult, or eꦦven bad times. However, thank you to all the people who remained close to me, and all of you with whom I've shared good times. Without you all, I could never have had these satisfactions.

“So, I thank you all. See💦 you on the track, maybe, even if in a different way.”

Suzuki first came to the World Champions𒁃hip in 2015 with the CIP Mahindra team, where he stayed for 2016 bܫefore moving to the SIC58 Squadra Corse in 2017.

It was 🐲with Paolo Simoncelli’s outfit that Suzu🌞ki would take the first of his three Grand Prix victories, that coming at the 2019 San Marino Grand Prix.

Victory at the Andalusia🌃n Grand Prix of 2020 followed before a move to Leopard Honda in 2022.

Suzuki’s f♋inal victory came in the 2023 Argentinian Grand Prix, but poor results from then on saw him dropped mid-🐓season and replaced by Adrian Fernandez at Leopard.

Before he had been let go by Leopard, Suz♕uki had already signed with the Intact GP Husqvarna team for 2024, his 10th inꦫ season Moto3, and he would go on to achieve a best finish of sixth place at the Grand Prix of the Americas in what turned out to be his final season in the World Championship.