Team boss Davide Brivio f🤡eels Suzuki's loss of technical concessions for 2017 will not impede the fac🍒tory's continued development in the MotoGP class, and instead feels it reflects the rapid progress made in just two years.

For the first time since its return to the premier class in 2015, Suzuki will start the season in the same situation as Honda, Yamaha and Ducati - with engine development frozen, a reduced number of engines, and limitations t𓆏o testing during the season.

The Italian feels it is "more exciting" to compete on a level playing field with the class' leading lights, and questioned the extent to which a factory can notably improve an engine thr🌌oughout the season, having attemp🌳ted to do so in the past two years.

The concessions it had enjoyed in both 2015 and '16 were lifted courtesy of Maverick Vi?ales' four podium finishes in France, England, Japan and Australia, with a points system based on where a rider finishes in the top three in place determining whether extra privileges are still necessary for a factory new to the class.
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Vi?ales' results were all the more impressive considering they were achieved without the benefit of soft tyres and extra fuel, a benefit Suzuki enjoyed over Honda, ಞYamaha, and latterly Ducat𝓡i, in 2015.

"It's positive because of course ♎we are more happy that we got these sort of results," Brivio told mahbx.com at the tail end of 2016.

"So one victory, 🍬three podium, rather than stay and taking advantage some concession. But then so what?

"You need to take advantage from the concessions to become competitive. We are more competitive, it's correct. First of all, I'm happy because we scored four podiuꦐms including one victory, and this is a great achievement for us.

"Also I'm happy because I like to challenge everybody else in the same co♛nditions. So if we have to challenge Honda, Yamaha, and Ducati, it's much more exciting to do in a same situation.

"I'm also happy thi⛎s year [2016] compared to 2015. We have the same tyres. Last year [in 2015] somebody will say, but soft tyre is 🌄helping, whatever. This results come in equal conditions and it's much more exciting.

"Also, to develop an engine, at the end of the 💧day, is not so easy anyway because I believe first of all to have the possibility to develop engine it's only useful if you made a mistake on engine spec."

Brivio also expressed th𒉰e opinion that the 'freeze' on engine development is no longer necessary four the top four factories, as manufacturers tend to bring at least three engines to the opening round of the year.

As the engine limit per rider stands at seven for the season🐻, a grജeat amount of time and resources would be needed to change just a small number of motors.

"In my opinion is not even longer necessary to freeze the engine," he continued, "because if you have only seven engines available, automatically the po♈ssibility of developing are very limited.

"If you go to Qatar and you already put in the bike two engines, normally you should have the third and the fourth engine as a spare, probab𒉰ly in the garage. So it means you already kind of built four 🎶engines.

"Then you can make one step on development, b✅ut you have to be careful on engine management because you can introduce the new engine when let's say the old one has reached enough mileage, otherwise you waste it.

"So you have to wait a few races anyway before to introduce the new development engine. Then you have to wait a f🃏ew m♉ore races anyway. So I will say that probably you can update the engine a couple of times in a year, but no more than that.

"So even without the freezing of fuel, it will not be a crazy development revolution of a situation. You could probably do once, maximum twice. So that is the only thing that I will say maybe we reallꦰy lose."

For the 2017 season, only Aprilia and KTM will retain technical concessions as they🍒 bid to close the gap to✱ the leading four manufacturers.