2006 GSX-R600 IMMACULATE JUST IN! It started at racetracks
far from Suzuki's Hamamatsu, Japan headquarters. A group of dedicated Suzuki
engineers on an overseas fact-finding mission wandered through paddocks and
spectator parking lots, looking at motorcycles and watching races.
The racers at these events didn't have factory contracts, and were not paid
to race. They came because they loved the competition, the sport, and they rode
motorcycles they bought themselves.
The race classes were defined by engine size, rider skill level and allowable
modifications. The grids for 1,000 cc machines were packed with GSX-R1000s. The
grids for 750 cc machines featured row after row of GSX-R750s. But the 600 cc
grids were no longer completely filled with GSX-R600s. After years of trying,
the middleweight competition had finally caught up, again.
The engineers worked stopwatches, talked to riders and mechanics, filled
notebooks with observations and comments. They compared what they had seen at
these regional races to what was happening in the World Superbike and AMA and
other national Superbike series, and with the results from endurance series in
Europe and the U.S. By the time they
returned to Japan, the engineers had a clear plan: Take everything Suzuki has
learned from building and racing the dominating GSX-R1000 and use it to again
leapfrog the would-be 600 cc competition.
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