GRP Team Suzuki has signed five times World Champion Joel Smets to spearhead its FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship effort with the new RM-Z 450.
Earlier today the Belgian-based squad announced the end of its association with Mickael Pichon and has now captured the expertise of the 2003 650 world title winner Smets with a two year contract to steer the team and factory into a new era of four-stroke racing.
Thirty four year old Smets, who has claimed four 500cc World Championships on four-stroke machinery and holds the record number of GP victories in the old class, resides less than 30 minutes from the team