Suter Racing Technology
| Suter Racing Technology AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat | Turbenthal , Switzerland |
| management |
Eskil Suter ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) Simon Suter ( CTO ) Alessandro Giussani ( COO ) |
| Branch | vehicle construction |
| Website | www.suterracing.com |
Suter Racing Technology AG (SRT) is an internationally active Swiss company based in Turbenthal in the Winterthur district , which specializes in the project planning, development and manufacture of high-tech products for industrial applications and motorsport . It is part of SUTEC AG, under whose umbrella Suter Racing Technology AG also includes Hybrotech AG , Suter Aircraft Technology AG and SEOTech AG .
Motorcycling
Since the founding years, SRT has positioned itself as a constant in international motorcycle racing with a focus on powerful engines , chassis systems, clutch systems and various add-on parts. SRT later expanded its field of activity to globally marketed prototypes, drive systems and concept vehicles.
In the past the company was involved in the development of racing machines of various classes. Among other things, they worked on the 500 cm³ machine MuZ 500 from MZ , which Eskil Suter still piloted in the World Championship, the Petronas FP1 , which was used by Carl Fogarty in the Superbike World Championship , the 250 cm³ Fantic - Grand Prix prototypes as well as the MotoGP machines Ilmor SRT X³ and Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR .
Since 2010 , Suter Racing Technology has been represented with the Suter MMX in the newly created Moto2 class of the motorcycle world championship . In the first year, 13 regular drivers were equipped, four victories with Shōya Tomizawa , Jules Cluzel , Roberto Rolfo and Stefan Bradl and won the first Moto2 constructors' championship . In the following season you could defend this title successfully. In 2012 , Suter was also the constructors' world champion in the Moto2 class and also provided the driver's world champion for the first time in history with the Spanish driver Marc Márquez .
In 2013 , the new Kalex bike was now superior to Suter, but Aspar drivers Nicolás Terol and Jordi Torres were still able to win four races on Suter. Also in 2014 was followed by two Suter wins by the Interwetten Padock team with Thomas Luthi and by the Technomag-CarXpert team with Dominique Aegerter . But after these two teams decided on a joint venture , they also switched to Kalex.
In November 2015, Suter announced that it would retire from the Moto2 class. No constructor's license will be obtained for the 2016 season . The engagement in the Moto3 class with Mahindra is not affected by this decision.
In 2017 Suter returned as a designer.
Driver title:
Marc Marquez (1)
- World champion in the Moto2 class: 2012
Design engineer title:
- World champion in the Moto2 class: 2010 , 2011 , 2012
Drive systems
Suter Racing Technology is constantly development contracts for various prototypes - drive systems . A well-known example of this is the hydraulic unit for Alinghi's America’s Cup sailboat catamaran Alinghi 5 . This unit , powered by a gasoline engine, served in the 33rd America's Cup in 2010 as a power source for the hydraulic system of winches and for pumping ballast water .
Web links
- Suter Racing Technology AG website (English / German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of “Suter Racing Technology AG” in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ World Championship Classification Moto2; The Official MotoGP Website. (pdf) www.motogp.com, accessed on November 10, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Günther Wiesinger: Eskil Suter: What mistakes have happened? www.speedweek.com, November 26, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
- ^ Alinghi exhibition at the Leman Museum in Nyon. www.sail-world.com, accessed on November 11, 2010 (English).
