The new 2012 MotoGP rules don’t specifically say that teams have to switch 1000cc bike next season, just that the capacity can be up to 1000cc and the maximum bore has to be 81, so this could mean that Suzuki could continue racing in MotoGP notwithstanding that their contract with Dorna expires at the end of the year, with their current (maybe with some further updates) 800cc GSV-R.
According to MCN.
com the Hamamatsu bigwigs have yet to decide if they’ll make the financial effort to be MotoGP in 2012 and that a new 1000cc prototype isn’t even in the making for the upcoming season, however they could eventually stay in the series, but continue fielding their 800cc.
Suzuki’s Paul Denning first said that a some sort of decision by the Japanese would be made by the end of June, but now has pushed that date to the end of July.
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