Suzuki MotoGP project leader Shinichi Sahara admits Davide Br൩ivio's unexpected departure as team manager has made the factory's quest for a satellite team more 🎃complicated.

However, Sahara "hasn't given up" and will continue speaking wജith "several teams" about a supply ♕of the world championship-winning GSX-RRs.

Gresini (splitting from Aprilia at the end of this season), Sky VR46 (considering a 2022 MotoGP entry) and Petronas (a previous Suzuki target) are thought to be amo𝕴ng the potential partners for Su♏zuki machinery in 2022.

"About a satelli🌳te team, yes, Davide was the main person to speak with several teams, as a window to Suzuki," Sahara said. "Of course, I have been in💟volved as well, but Davide leaving has made me busier.

"Half of the satellite team building job is at the track, t🎶o spea🎐k with the teams, and the other half is proceeding in the factory.

"Anyway, I haven't given up about a satellite team, but Davide's departure makes the situa🐼tion a little bit more difficult for me. Like I said, made me busier, but that's it. I will co♑ntinue."

Sahara added: "Slowly we are progressing. I myself start to think in more de𓂃tail about how to manage, how to organise the satellite team. And as I said, w♐e are speaking with several teams still.

"So at t♏he track I have to continue speaking with the teams and at the factory I have to continue to explain to the top management. So I can say progressing, slowly.🐈 Step by step."

Brivio, who left Suzuki to becom💎e racing director of the Alpine F1 team, previously stated that March-April would be the deadline to dec൩ide on a satellite project for 2022.

Saha♏ra added that Suzuki would soon join KTM, Ducati and Honda in officially signing up for the next five-year MotoGP contract cycle with Dorna.

"We are ꧑just doing some paperwork in the company to proceed t♊o sign the contract," he said.

Reigning world champion Joan Mir and tౠeam-mate Alex Rins (third in last year's standings) will again form Suzuki's MotoGP line-up in 2021.