The current MotoGP season may only be four races old, but Suzuki riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins got their second outing on the prototype 2022 GSX-RR engine during Monday’s Jerez test.
Suzuki – like Yamaha, Ducati and Honda – has had its engine design frozen since the start of 2020 due to an emergency technical freeze following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mir and Rins had got their first taste of their proposed 2022 engine, which aims to improve top speed while maintaining the current character, at the Qatar pre-season test.
“Honestly I think that we made a great day. I’m quite happy,” began reigning world champion Mir, who was third fastest at the test behind Maverick Vinales and Rins.
“We tried again the 2022 engine, and it’s what we expected, a little bit better, but not a huge step. We took good information to keep working on this engine. I’m quite satisfied about how everything is going.
“It looks like we are following a good line. I expect that we will not make a super-big step in that area, but if we are able to improve a bit more, to try to have an engine with the same character that we have now but with a bit more speed, it will be really good, and we are quite happy about the evolution.”
