Salakari, son of aforementioned Jaska Salakari from Helsinki, Finland will join the team in January 2023 upon his release from the Finnish army and will work with ex Pro Stock Motorcycle crew Chief Jackie Bryce who has been named the team’s racer development coach.īryce will also be working with GEN 3 dragbike racer Trevor Schnitz starting in the summer on 2023 who will ultimately replace the aging Oehler at the end of 2025 season. I’m so excited about finally having enough cylinders to be at the top of the field in NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle.” I just returned from the new facility in Kansas and it is Awesome, the list of people Mitch has secured is a true Dream Team. “It has always been a dream of mine to race on a top-notch Factory team and I just can’t believe I was chosen to pilot one of the new Suzuki/Monster 4V machines. Oehler who has competed in the class the last several years jumped at the chance to join the team. Ryan Oehler and Elmeri Salakari have been selected as the new Factory team riders. Finnish Top Fuel Motorcycle engine designer and racer Jaska Salakari has also been contracted for development and manufacturing consulting for the new team and will be visiting the new race team headquarters this week in Kansas.Īlthough several key members of the new team have already been secured the two bike teams riders have been signed to three-year contracts and will be testing mid-July on the new machines. The new team will develop the existing 4V engine package and the new future PSM engine package. The amount of legal with this deal was unbelievable to me and thankfully we were able to hire long-time drag bike racer Ken Schwartz to handle all legal matters for the US team.”Īll aspects of the new motorcycle will be built in-house with the help of Suzuki Japan’s engineers including the new billet engine case with one-piece crank already under construction at Monster Race Products in Kansas. It’s been incredibly tough keeping up with the existing demand at Monster and working on all this behind the scenes and keeping it secret. Everyone at Suzuki Japan was impressed with what we had accomplished with the Monster 4 valve head and knew the exciting possibilities with factory backing. I flew over the next week and spent 5 days touring the factories and discussing the possibility of a new factory-backed effort in the US. “Thirosushi “Tony” Suzuki’s Representatives had reached out to me last July and requested a private meeting in Shizuoka, Japan.
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