Livio Suppo: Sometimes I miss MotoGP… If Suzuki call me, I will listen

Livio Suppo: Sometimes I miss MotoGP… If Suzuki call me, I will listen

 
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Get MotoGP news in your inbox! By signing up to the newsletter you agree to receive emails from that may occasionally include promotional content Leave this field blank Title-winning Ducati and Honda MotoGP team manager Livio Suppo says ‘if Suzuki call me, I will listen’, following Davide Brivio’s shock departure.Brivio’s imminent switch to F1 means Suzuki, the newly crowned MotoGP riders’ and teams’ world champions, have been left without a team manager with just over a month to go until the start of 2021 pre-season testing.”Sincerely, it was shocking news for us about Davide’s departure,” admitted Suzuki MotoGP project leader Shinichi Sahara. “Now we are trying to find the best way to cover for the ‘Davide loss’.”Normally, when a MotoGP team is in need of a new manager, they try to recruit someone already familiar with the company. That either means promoting from inside the team or – in the case of Yamaha and Ducati – bringing senior staff across from their WorldSBK/WSS projects.But Suzuki has no obvious person ready to step into Brivio shoes and no WorldSBK project to recruit from.Other options are to try and poach a rival team boss, as occurred most recently when Gigi Dall’Igna moved from Aprilia to Ducati in 2013, and when Suppo switched from Ducati to Honda in 2010.Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Suzuki: Davide Brivio’s MotoGP departure ‘shocking news’accImages.createImage(); CONFIRMED: Davide Brivio leaves Suzuki MotoGP ahead of F1 switchHaving overseen Ducati’s only MotoGP title to date with Casey Stoner in 2007, Suppo went on to repeat the feat with the Australian at Honda in 2011 (HRC’s first crown since Nicky Hayden in 2006).Suppo then celebrated four more titles with Marc Marquez in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 before deciding the time was right to leave MotoGP, albeit adding “never say never” as far as a possible return.If Suzuki wants to replace one multi-title winning MotoGP team manager with another (and without poaching from a rival) they would be hard-pressed to find someone more highly qualified than 56-year-old Suppo, a consultant for Thok Ebikes since leaving the paddock.Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Bagnaia: Biggest problem was heating the front tyreaccImages.createImage(); Remy Gardner: First win was ‘weight off my shoulders’ “I should have to think about it… MotoGP has been my life for many years and sometimes I miss it,” Suppo told , when asked if he would consider the newly available Suzuki role.”Let’s see if Suzuki will call me, in which case I will listen to them and see!” 

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