This British Grand Prix is a meeting of all dangers for a Suzuki team which left Silverstone last year with victory. The realization of months of progress on the GSX-RR project. But with the two drivers gone and two new ones at the helm of a machine with equally different management, it is the decline that has been observed this year. And the harder the fall will be the day after this twelfth meeting of the year, if it does not give some reasons for satisfaction with convincing results.
Gone are the days when we said that Suzuki was one of the most successful manufacturers in MotoGP. However, that was only a year ago. An eternity in view of the current results ofAndrea Iannone, leader of the Hamamatsu troops. The one who recovers from the fear of his life lived in an incredible plane trip with his sweetheart declared before his Battle of Britain: “ Silverstone is a nice track which should suit our bike. Last year, Suzuki won on this circuit so much so that we are going there with increased enthusiasm ».
« We will benefit from important data acquired since last year and this will be useful to us. But the fact remains that our current level is different from that of 2016. However, both in Brno and in Austria, we have collected valuable information which should allow us to progress in our performances ».
In Austria, the valuable information brought Joe the Maniac to eleventh place behind the KTM of Rock and more than twenty seconds from the winner, Andrea Dovizioso, his former teammate at Ducati. Indeed, both for the team and for the driver, the years follow one another and are not the same.
