February 2006
28th Feb - BACK STRAIN HINDERS RAMON IN FRANCE
Team
Suzuki completed their second pre-season event at the weekend
at the Pernes Les Fontaines International meeting in France,
but Steve Ramon was unable to post decent results due to a
back strain.
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28th Feb - Rizla and Suzuki join forces in MotoGP
Suzuki
has teamed up with Rizla – the world’s premier
rolling papers brand – and agreed a two-year partnership
for the title sponsorship of its premier motorcycle race team
in the prestigious MotoGP World Championship
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27th Feb - Team SUZUKI MotoGP returns to Europe for Official
Tests and Team Launch
Team
SUZUKI MotoGP will be in Spain for the next two weekends to
take part in the traditional season-opening Official MotoGP
Tests
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26th Feb - CARMICHAEL WINS ATLANTA SUPERCROSS
Ricky
Carmichael raced to overall victory in Saturday evening’s
Atlanta Supercross at Georgia Dome despite being told days
earlier he’d been stripped of his victory in San Diego
over an alleged rule infringement.
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25th Feb - SUZUKI - CORSER WINS QATAR SECOND RACE
Troy
Corser put his Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra GSX-R1000
on the top of the podium in today’s second race at Qatar
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24th Feb - SUZUKI MEN ON QATAR SECOND ROW
Team
Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra World Superbike Champion Troy
Corser missed a front row start for tomorrow’s opening
round of the series in Qatar by just a tenth of a second.
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23rd Feb - Suzuki World Superbikes Qatar
Reigning
World Champion Troy Corser and Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra
team mates Yukio Kagayama and Fabien Foret started today’s
first day of qualifying for the opening round of the 2006
World Superbike Championship in Qatar cautiously because of
the uncharacteristically-wet conditions
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19th Feb - TEDESCO TAKES BEST SX RESULT AT ST. LOUIS
Team
Makita Suzuki’s Ivan Tedesco raced to his best 250 Supercross
Main Event position at Saturday’s drama-packed St. Louis
seventh round
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16th Feb - Team SUZUKI MotoGP on the pace at Sepang
Team
SUZUKI MotoGP has completed the final pre-season test at Sepang
with many positive pointers to take forward into the new season.
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12th Feb - CARMICHAEL 2ND AT SAN DIEGO
Team
Makita Suzuki’s Ricky Carmichael and arch rival James
Stewart set the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California
alight
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12th Feb - POSITIVE SEASON OPENER FOR SUZUKI MX1
New
Team Suzuki signing Steve Ramon and Kevin Strijbos both recorded
encouraging results at the Starcross International Motocross
in Mantova, Italy
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12th Feb - BURKHART IN CONTENTION FOR SX TITLE
Team
Shift Motul Suzuki’s Luke Burkhart established himself
as a major championship contender when the Australian Supercross
Masters series kicked off at Wayville Showground in Adelaide
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10th Feb - YOSHIMURA WRAPS-UP FONTANA GSX-R TESTS
Team
Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin, Ben Spies and Aaron Yates
have completed a productive and relatively successful two-day
test of their 2006 GSX-Rs at California Speedway in Fontana,
California.
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9th Feb - SUZUKI MX1 START 2006 CAMPAIGN IN MANTOVA
The
new-look Suzuki MX1 World Championship motocross team begin
their 2006 assault on the FIM series and national Belgian
Championship with the first of several pre-season ‘warm-up’
races this weekend.
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7th Feb - Team SUZUKI MotoGP makes further advancements
on final day
Team
SUZUKI MotoGP has finished its test in Qatar with John Hopkins
and Chris Vermeulen completing long test runs on their new
Suzuki GSV-Rs.
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5th Feb - DOUBLE PODIUM FOR SUZUKI SUPERCROSS AT ANAHEIM
Suzuki’s
RMZ450 raced to its first double podium at Saturday night’s
AMA Supercross fifth round at Angel Stadium in Anaheim
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3rd Feb - Testing heats up for Team SUZUKI MotoGP
Team
SUZUKI MotoGP travels to the hot desert circuit at Losail
near Doha in Qatar this weekend for the second test in its
busy pre-season schedule.
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