Such concerns were eased at Catalunya on Monday when the factory rolled out not one, but two, new fairing updates – with positive r🌺esults🌠.

“We’ve shown today that we’re still implementing new ✃items according to the original test planඣ set at the start of 2022, and the fact that Suzuki is leaving doesn’t change that,” said team manager Livio Suppo.

Aerodynamic🌞s is the only area where Suzuki’s winter development didn’t go to plan, the factory con♛tinuing with the 2021 wings on the machines of Joan Mir and Alex Rins so far this season.

But like most of its rivals, Suzuki🔯 still has one fairing updatဣe available.

With Rins out of action due to the wrist fracture in Sunday’s r꧙ace, Mir was the lone GSX-RR on track for the test, completing 55 laps as he🀅 worked to improve corner entry and compare the two new fairings with the current version.

“The main thing was to understand our [corner entry] problems and w💞e are working in the correct direction on that,” said Mir, who recovered from 17th to 4th in Sunday’s race.

“Plus we tried some new fairings from Suzuki, Suzuki brought some new stuff that is really, really good. I like the new fairings. I'm sure we can g൩et some advantage from that.

“[Aero꧑] was an area on our bike that we had margin t🎃o improve and I think it will be really good.”

At least one of the new fa🐻iring𒁏s (pictured) featured side pods, suggesting more downforce and therefore anti-wheelie, an important characteristic for the upcoming Sachsenring round.

“We have to see on the data but today I liked the [new] fairing a lot,” confirmed Mir, who added that, if making a decision based only on his feeling at thඣe test, he would race with the fairing next time out.

Suzuki 'won’t stop trying until the end' in MotoGP

“Joan did a very good job today, and especially as he was alone in testing due to Alex being unable to ride,” added Suzuki’s te🐽chnical manager Ken Kawauchi. “He put in many laps and went through many items, the main focus of which were the aero packages.

“We made some stไeps in terms of chassis and other settings, and also an improvement ꦜin the turning of the bike.

“We’re feeling very optimistic about the coming race🐓🔥s, and we won’t stop trying until the end.”

Mir, whose fourth place was Suzuki's first﷽ race finish since the shock news that the factory would quit MotoGP, set the 15th fastest lap time, but 🌼was only 0.861s from Yamaha's test leader Fabio Quartararo.

Both Rins and Mir are currently tied for seventh place in the world championship standings, with three DNFs each (plus a furth🅰er non score for Rins) from the opening nine rounds.