D.I.D chain wins MotoGP World Championship with Joan Mir and Team Suzuki Ecstar
Joan Mir's 2020 MotoGP World Championship win marks an exceptional achievement for technical partner D.I.D and Team Suzuki Ecstar, as well as for Suzuki itself.
Even though the Manufacturer's Championship evaded them, the Mir/Team Suzuki Ecstar win was a significant achievement for the D.I.D. chain equipped Suzuki race bike.
The win comes as Suzuki celebrates its 100th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of its Isle of Man race debut in 1960, with the legendary contribution that Ernst Degner and (East) German two-stroke technology made to Suzuki's evolution as a motorcycle manufacturer.
Suzuki's last premier class World Championship win was in 2000 with Kenny Roberts Jr., in what was then the 500 cc World Title Class and, in fact, D.I.D was there too - D.I.D chain became Suzuki's race chain of choice again in 2019.
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After four years of Marc Márquez and Repsol Honda domination, despite Márquez' absence for much of the second half of the (much altered) 2020 series, Joan Mir secured his maiden MotoGP title and delivered Team Suzuki Ecstar and Suzuki's first team championship since the manufacturer came back into the series in 2015. This despite the high number of wins by different riders, teams and constructors in 2020, and the Yamaha engine controversy - a 50 point deduction handed the manufacturer's title to Ducati, despite no Ducati riders finishing in the championship's top three.
Spaniard
Joan Mir became the first Moto3 World Champion to graduate to a premier
class series title and posted the first premier class championship
series win of the "modern era" for a Suzuki rider - the last was Kenny
Robert's Jr. in the 500 cc days, and D.I.D was Suzuki's "chain of
choice" back then too!
In fact, Mir's championship win was the first for a Suzuki rider since 2000 when Kenny Roberts Jr. was champion and the first non-Honda or non-Yamaha rider to win the title since Ducati rider Casey Stoner in 2007 - plus, he became the first Moto3 world champion to graduate to a premier class series title. Mir won the title by 13 points ahead of Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha), and Alex Rins, also with D.I.D chain and Team Suzuki Ecstar, was third.
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