Carbon Fiber Hayabusa Fairings for Suzuki’s NHRA Professional Inventory Workforce


The Vance & Hines/Mission/Suzuki NHRA Professional Inventory Bike Workforce has new bodywork for his or her Hayabusa – and the entire carbon fiber caboodle is lined up for approval with NHRA. 

We’re anticipating the good-to-go sign someplace mid-March, forward of the season’s inaugural effort (the Gatornationals).

“[Together,] riders Gaige Herrera and four-time NHRA Champion Eddie Krawiec will marketing campaign the brand new bodywork all through the 2023 season,” lauds the related press launch. 

“That is the primary, newly-designed bodywork for Suzuki NHRA race bikes since 2008.”

A view of the new bodywork for Vance & Hines/Mission/Suzuki NHRA Pro Stock's Hayabusa. Media sourced from Vance & Hines' press release.
A view of the brand new bodywork for Vance & Hines/Mission/Suzuki NHRA Professional Inventory’s Hayabusa. Media sourced from Vance & Hines’ press launch.

In the event you recall, Suzuki acquired quite a lot of bonnets in a twist when they stepped out of MotoGP to deal with their about-face into extra sustainable channels; with sights now firmly set on 2024/2030/2050/2070 objectives for battery tech, electrification, and artificial fuels, preserving peripherals on the model’s continued fossil-fuel efforts will seemingly grow to be extra intriguing within the coming years. 

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A view of Suzuki's 2022 Hayabusa. Media sourced from Asphalt & Rubber.
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Time will inform how Suzuki continues their march towards carbon neutrality; if the model is as agency on the above deadlines as posited, then the Vance & Hines/Mission/Suzuki NHRA Professional Inventory Bike Workforce could also be one of many few gas-run classes that Suzuki plans on preserving round… a minimum of for now. 

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*Media sourced from Vance & Hines’ press launch in addition to Asphalt & Rubber and *