Suzuki president Toshihiro Suzuki has not ruled out the idea of the Japanese marque retur🌊ning to racing, including MotoGP, but no p𒆙lans are in the offing right now.

The brand sensationally quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season having just signed a new agreement with 🉐Dorna Sports to remain in t♛he 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 Joa꧅n Mir in 2020.

Its deci🌺sion to quit MotoGP also saw Suzuki withdraw all factory efforts in motorsport.

With a major regulation shake-up coming in 2027 in the form of 850cc four-stroke engines powered 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, wi༺th rumours of BMW interest swirling but so far amounting to not♔hing.

However, in August, Dorna’s chief✱ sporting officer Carlos Ezpeleta said this was no longer the ca𝓰se 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, whose factory e�⭕�ffort was run out of the Gresini garage until the end of 2021.

In an interview with Corriere dello S💎port in Italy, Suzuki-san has opened the door for a racing return but not until the brand has a significantly “complete and varied” 🍸range of bikes for its consumers.

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

“Howeveꦿr, it doesn't matter much if we don't have a complete and diverse range of models for all motorcycle enthusiasts.

“And I don't think we are in that situ🎐ation at the moment.

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

“If everything goes well, w🔯e w𒀰ill 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 th🌞ey were going to invest all the money they had in a new type of engine, ♛blah, blah, blah.

“I think 🧔they will be back. They cannot sell bikes if they are not 𓂃in competition.”

Suzuki did enter a GS൲X-R into this year’s Suzuka 8 Hours endurance rac🔯e powered by a partially sustainable fuel, finishing eighth.

Whether Dorna would welcome Suzuki back would be the company’s biggest sticking point should it get to a position ༺to run a MotoGP project.

That would likely depend on Suzuki being 𒁏able to prove lonღg-term viability, having now quit MotoGP twice since the modern era began in 2002.

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