This is the special liveryℱ to be used by Suzuki Ecstar riders Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vi✃nales during this weekend's German MotoGP and also the following Indianapolis round.

The colours are to💦 celebrate the 30-year history of the GSX-R sport bike, including the AMA wins claimed by future world champion Kevin Schwantz who debuted the iconic blue and white.

"I first rode the GSXR in 1985 at the Suzuka 8-Hour with Graeme Crosby," Schwantz recalled. "We didn't get the Suzuki GSX-Rs in the United States until '86 but raced them in American Superbikes in '86 and '87. I won the Daytona 200 on a Suzuki GSX-R in 1988 and continued to race the 8-Hour all the way through to the 1992 season.

"The GSX-R was ground-breaking technology, the latest, greatest thing when it came out and it has continued to be an awesome sports bike, a great handling motorcycle and it is 🐭still very, very competitive in the Suzuka 8-Hour. With over a million GSX-Rs made it is true to say that there are millions and millions of people who have bought themꦏ, ridden them and love them."

Suzuki returned to MotoGP this season after a three-year sabbatical following the financial crisis. Highlights include a perfect one-two in qualifying at Catalunya, where Vinales went on to claim the bike's best race result to date of s🉐ixth.

Suzuki project leader Satoru Terada said: "When we started developing the MotoGP machine we clearly had in mind that it would be named the GSX-RR, therefore keeping a very strong connectဣ📖ion with the GSX-R. This name at Suzuki means a lot, because it has a very strong heritage both in road machines and in racing machines.

"This direct connection between the race💎 version and the road version is something Suzuki has always believed in and we as Team Suzuki Ecstar strongly wanted to respect this view.

"GSX-R and RR are real sisters, not only because of their design, but also because the technical innovations 𒅌that we develop and test in 🗹racing have a direct application also on series production models. This is our way to stay in touch with our fans, may they be supporting our riders in a MotoGP Grand Prix, or riding their GSX-R machines on the roads of the world."