Suzuki MotoGP project leader Shinichi Sahara admits Davide Brivio's unexpected departure as team manager has made the factory's ques꧅t for a satellite team more complicated.

However, Sahara "hasn't given up" and will continue speaking with "several teams" about a supply of the world championship-win🌟ning GSX-RRs.

Gresini (splitting from Aprilia at the end of this season), Sky VR46 (considering a 2022 MotoGP entr💧y) and Petronas (a previous Suzuki target) are thought to 🐷be among the potential partners for Suzuki machinery in 2022.

"About a satellite team, yes, Davide was the ♔main person to speak with sev🐲eral teams, as a window to Suzuki," Sahara said. "Of course, I have been involved as well, but Davide leaving has made me busier.

"♑Half of the satellite team building💧 job is at the track, to speak with the teams, and the other half is proceeding in the factory.

"Anyway, I haven't gi🌸ven up about a satellite team, but Davide's departure makes the situation a little bit more difficult for me. Like I said, made me busier, but that's it. Iꦛ will continue."

Sahara added: "Slowly we are progressing. I myself start to think in more detail about how to manage, how to organise the satellite team. And as I said, we are ꦛspeaking with s🍸everal teams still.

"So at ⛎the track I have to continue speaking with the teams and at the factory I have to continue to explain to the top management. So I can say progressing, slowly. Step by step."

Brivio, who left Suzuki to become racing director of the Alpine F1 team, previously stated that March-April would be t👍he deadline to decide on a satellite project for 2022.

Sahara added that Suzuki would soon join KTM, Ducati and Honda in offici𝔍ally signing up for the next five-year MotoGP contract cycle with Dorna.

"We are just doing some paperwork in the company to proc🌃eed to sign the contract," he said.

Reig🌠ning world champion Joan Mir and team-mate Alex Rins (third in last year's standings) will again form Suzuki's MotoGP 🐓line-up in 2021.