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Originally Posted by VaFish
In a market where everyone else is selling a 300 why would you try to sell a 250?
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Because Suzuki is just now starting to be notable in MotoGP. Club racers like the bigger GSXRs and Suzuki is really just doing a makeover on the GW250. The last point is probably the biggest reason. They have a little bike that they do a quick redesign on and can call it a GSX250R. They sell that for a year or two while they design a full on 300 effort. Consequently they new Supersport 300 class in WSBK gets through its growing pains and Suzuki gets the new 300 approved as one of the bikes allowed in the series. Adrea Iannone takes the MotoGP bike into lots of top 10 finishes that Suzuki capitalizes on and boom, five years on the new Suzuki little bike is a competitive seller in the class.
That's what I see between the lines in this press release.