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Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turbenthal, Switzerland |
29 June 1967 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eskil Suter (born 29 June 1967) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and current motorcycle chassis constructor from Switzerland.
Born in Turbenthal, Zürich, Switzerland, Suter finished in second place in the 1991 250cc International Lightweight class at the Daytona International Speedway. Suter had his best seasons in 1994 and 1996 when he finished in 13th place in the 250cc world championship. He raced in one round of the 1997 Superbike World Championship but failed to score any points. In the 1998 500cc season, he was a development rider for the MuZ team that used a Swissauto engine in a French-made ROC frame. When regular rider Doriano Romboni was injured in the second race of the season, Suter took over and scored points in three races.
Suter founded a company, named Suter Racing Technology (SRT) in 1996, which specialized in project engineering applied in motorcycle racing. Suter developed, in cooperation with Swissauto, the Muz 500 bike, in particular the chassis design and concept for the 1999 season, after the MuZ team decided to cease using the ROC frame.
SRT was responsible for the design and development of the Petronas FP1 900cc three-cylinder engine; the bike competed in Superbike World Championship from 2002 to 2005. The company also helped with the development of Kawasaki ZX-RR MotoGP between 2004 and 2006. In 2006 and 2007, SRT was involved with Ilmor Engineering in the chassis design of the 800cc Ilmor X3 motorcycle.