Suzuki presi🎃dent Toshihiro Suzu🌱ki has not ruled out the idea of the Japanese marque returning to racing, including MotoGP, but no plans are in the offing right now.

The b🌃rand sensationally quit Mot🍌oGP at the end of the 2022 season having just signed a new agreement with Dorna Sports to remain in the series for five years.

Suzuki cited financial pressures and changing market trends for its decision, which broke up a team that won the world championship with Joan 𓄧Mir in 2020.

Its decision to quit MotoGP also saw Suzuki withdraw all factor⛄y efforꦉts in motorsport.

With a major regulation shake-up coming in 2027 in the form of 850🦄cc four-stroke engines powe✨red by 100% sustainable fuels, conventional thinking is that this could be enough to entice a manufacturer to join the grid.

In recent years Dorna had explicitly kept the grid slots vacated by Suzuki available for a manufacturer, with rumours of BMW interest swirling but so far amounting 🤡to nothing.

However, in August, Dorna’sౠ chief sporting officer Carlos Ezpeleta said this was no longer the case and any manufacturer wanting to join the grid would have to merge with an existing team.

This would lead to an arrangement similar to Aprilia’s return to MotoGP in 2015, who🎶se factory effort was run out of the Gresini garage until the end of 2021.

In an interview with Corriere dello Sport in Italy, Suzuki-san has opened the door for a racing return but not unti🦄l the brand has a significantly “complete and varied” range of bikes for its consumers.

“The victoriꦑes in MotoGP were, of course, very important for us,” he said.

“However, it 💞doesn't matter much if we don't have a complete and diverse range of models for al📖l motorcycle enthusiasts.

“And I don't think we are in t♏hat situation at the moment.

“It is important for us to quickly offer a complete product rꦗange that satisfies today's riders.

“If everything g💫oes well, we will then return to racing - and win again.”

In April last year,ꦿ FIM president Jorge Viegas told the media at the Assen ༒World Superbike round claimed he’d had discussions with Suzuki in which he was told: “They said they were going to invest all the money they had in a new type of engine, blah, blah, blah.

“I tꦐhink they will be back. They cannot seꦜll bikes if they are not in competition.”

Suzuki did enter a GSX-R into this year’s Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race powered by a partially sustainable fuel, finishi𒁃ng eighth.

Whether Dorna would welcome Suzuki back woᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuld be the company’s biggest sticking point should it get to a position to run a Moto𝓰GP project.

That would likely depend on Suzuki being able to prove long-term viability, having now quit MotoGP twice since the modern era beg♌an in 2002.

The marque’s final MotoGP race to date 🅺at the 2022 Valencia GP saw it go out on a high, with Alex Rins scoring his second win of that season on the GSX-RR.