The decision is not yet official, but according to e-magazine GPWeek.com "In response to a deadline set by Dorna, the axe finally fell on the on-again/off-again Suzuki MotoGP team last Friday, with the factory decision to pull out of th✅e premier-class."

GPWeek adds that an email to 🔯team members from Paul Denning states that Suzuki hopes to return to ♚MotoGP in 2014.

Alvaro Bautista, Suzuki's only full time rider this year, has already signed for Gresini Honda, but ex-Pramac D🍨ucati rider Randy 🅰de Puniet posted impressive lap times while testing the 800cc GSV-R at Valencia. The Frenchman made clear he'd like to race the bike next year.

Suzuki last won the premier-class title with Kenny Roberts in 2000, but has taken just one race win - with Chris Vermeulen at a wet Le Mans in 2007 - during 🃏the four-stroke era. The team's most recent podium appearance was at Brno in 2008.

Should Suzuki withdraw it would reduce manufacturer participatཧion in MotoGP to Honda, Ducati and Yamaha, although a new class of privateer 'Claiming Rule Teams' (CRTs) are being introduced to boost grid numbe🍸rs for the start of the new 1000cc era in 2012.

T𒀰he departure of Suzuki is also likely to send John Hopkins to World Superbike, along♛side Leon Camier at Denning's Crescent Suzuki team.