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Despite Honda's increased efforts, Suzuki would claim the 50cc title with Hans-Georg Anscheidt winning the championship from Honda's Luigi Taveri at the last race of the season in Japan. Yamaha would battle Honda all season for the 125 crown, each factory taking five wins, with Honda's Taveri taking the title from Yamaha's Bill Ivy.
The 250 class proved to be more difficult as Yamaha's Phil Read battled Redman all season long, with Read finally coming out on top, winning five races to Redman's three. Luigi Taveri won the 125 title for Honda while Suzuki 's Hugh Anderson fought a season-long battle with Honda's Ralph Bryans to retain his 50cc crown.
After the withdrawal of Honda (and Bridgestone) after the 1966 season, Suzuki was the only Japanese firm entered in the 1967 50 cc category, winning each and every GP, often with a one-lap advantage on its closest competitors.
Rothmans Honda Team: Honda: 56:21.831 20: 2 Doug Chandler: Lucky Strike Suzuki: Suzuki +28.298 15: 3 Kevin Schwantz: ... Yamaha Motor Banco: Yamaha +2:15.005 4: 8
Degner's experience was exclusively with two-stroke racing engines but there were few world-class manufacturers of two-stroke racing machines. Suzuki and Yamaha were two such 2-stroke manufacturers looking for GP success in 1961. After a disastrous GP debut at the 1960 Isle of Man TT, Suzuki were about to start their second GP year.
[Harley has] met with representatives of Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki to discuss possible alternatives to the tariff. Zuehlke, Jeffrey (2007), Supercross , Motor Mania Series, Lerner Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-8225-9014-9 , retrieved 2016-10-18
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Suzuki two-stroke engines became competitive in motor sport only after they gained possession of Kaaden's MZ design secrets from racer Ernst Degner after his defection from East Germany in 1961. [10] MZs were ridden to 13 GP victories and 105 rostrum places between 1955 and 1976. [11]