As a more-than-productive off-season draws to a close, Suzuki is not 'very', but 'reasonably confident' its fully seamless gearbox will be ready to race at the first MotoGP round of 2016 in Qatar. Factory team manager Davide Brivio believes the transmission, that boasts both seamless up and downshifts, is a substantial improvement on the model riders Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaro had used in tests at the beginning of the year. But such is the delicate nature of the component, Suzuki has been running extensive reliability tests with its test rider Takuya Tsuda to ensure it can be relied upon before race day use. Both full-time riders were using the factory's first spec of seamless...
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