Suzuki president Toshihiro Suzuki has not ruled out the idea of the Japanese marque🅠 returning to racing, including MotoGP, but no plans are in thꦰe offing right now.

The brand sensationally quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season having just signed a new agreement with Dorna Sports to remain inಌ the series for five years.

Suzu💝ki cited financial pressures and changing market trends for its decision, which broke up a team that won the wo💃rld championship with Joan Mir in 2020.

Its decision to 𝓡quit MotoGP also saw Suzuki withdraw all factory efforts in motorsport.

With a major regulation shake-ౠup coming in 2027🅺 in the form of 850cc four-stroke engines powered by 100% sustainable fuels, conventional thinking is that this could be enough to entice a manufacturer to join the grid.

In recent years Dorna had explicitly kept the gr🗹id slots vacated by Suzuki available for a manufacturer, with rumours of BMW interest swirling but so far amounting to nothing.

However, in August, Dorna’s chief sporting officer Carlos Ezpeleta said tꦡhis was no longer the case and any manufacturer wanting to join the grid would have to merge with an existing team.

This would lead to an ar൲rangement similar to Aprilia’s return to MotoGP in 2015, whose factory effort wꦫas run out of the Gresini garage until the end of 2021.

In an interview with Corriere dello Sport in Italy, Suzuki-san has opened the door for a racing return but not until the brand has a significantly “complete and varied” range of b꧒ikes for its consumers.

“The victories in MotoGP♔ were, of cours🤡e, very important for us,” he said.

“However, it doesn't matter much if we don't have a complete𝔉 and diverse range of models for all motorcycle enthusiasts.

“And I don't think we ar🍌e in that situation a💫t the moment.

“It is important 🐈for us to qu🐟ickly offer a complete product range that satisfies today's riders.

“If everything goes well, we will then ret🌞urn to racing - and win again.”

In April last year, FIM president Jorge Viegas told the media at 🧔the Assen World Superbike round claimed he’d had discussions with Suzuki in which he was told: “They said ♛they were going to invest all the money they had in a new type of engine, blah, blah, blah.

“🧔I think they will be back. They cannot sell bikes if they are not in competition.”

Su𒁏zuki did enter a GSX-R into this year’s Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race powered by a partially sustainable fuel, finishing eighth.

Whether Dorna would welcome Suzuki back would be the company’𝐆s biggest sticking point should it get to a pꦛosition to run a MotoGP project.

That would likely depend on Suzuki being able to prove long-term🍒 viability, having now quit MotoGP twice since the modern era began in 2002.

The marque’s final MotoGP race to date at the 2022 Valencia GP saw it go out on a high, with Alex Rins scoring h🎃is second win of that seas🌜on on the GSX-RR.