Suzuki withdrew from MotoGP competition at the conclusion of the 2022 season, winning their final race with Álex Rins.

[1] In 1971, Grand Prix racer Jack Findlay and his business partner Daniele Fontana constructed a racing motorcycle using a Suzuki T series engine with a chassis of their own design.

[4] The motorcycle was designed by Makoto Hase using the proven square-four, two stroke engine architecture that Suzuki had developed during their successful Grand Prix racing program in the 1960s.

[5] The RG 500 was proven successful in its first race at the 1974 500cc French Grand Prix when, Barry Sheene finished in second place behind the defending world champion, Phil Read.

In 1978 with two wins on the new Suzuki RGA, Sheene finished second in the championship behind Yamaha rider Kenny Roberts.

The 1979 championship was again won by Roberts with Virginio Ferrari finishing second, Barry Sheene third and Wil Hartog fourth, all riding the new Suzuki RGB.

Lucchinelli became the 500cc World Champion in 1981 riding the new Suzuki RG 500 gamma for the Roberto Gallina racing team.

Uncini was severely injured at the Dutch TT at Assen in 1983 and was unable to defend his title.

While not a full-time return, riders Takumi Itoh and Kevin Schwantz had some good results aboard the new Suzuki RGV500.

Suzuki entered an all Japanese riders lineup in 1998 with Nobuatsu Aoki and Katsuaki Fujiwara.

[9] In 2002, the debut year of the new MotoGP class, Roberts and Gibernau rode the new Suzuki GSV-R four-stroke motorcycle.

[9] The rider line-up remained the same for 2004 while Bridgestone replaced Michelin as the team's tyre supplier.

[9] Once again the rider line-up remained the same for 2005, while Englishman Paul Denning became the new team manager taking over the position of Garry Taylor.

At the end of 2011, Suzuki pulled out of MotoGP citing the need to reduce costs amid the global economic downturn.

[14] On 30 September 2014, Suzuki confirmed that it would participate in MotoGP from 2015, with Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales as their two riders.

They raced a newly developed MotoGP machine, the GSX-RR, with a restructured team organisation led by Davide Brivio.