Alstare's double assault in 2002.

Team Alstare Suzuki has confirmed that it will continue to contest both the Superbike and Supersport World Championships in 2002 as a Suzuki-supported team.

The Superbike challenge will be spearheaded by Spaniard Gregorio Lavilla, who will ride a GSX-R750, that will undergo continuous development with Team Alstare Suzuki. Twenty-eight year old Lavilla has vast experience in the Superbike World Championship and is already looking forward to the team's first tests. He will be Team Alstare Suzuki's sole rider, but the team feels that the knowledge and experience it gained in 2001 will allow the Spaniard to feel right at home from day one.

Team Alstare Suzuki's Supersport title attack will once again be taken up by Japanese rider Katsuaki Fujiwara aboard the 2002 Suzuki GSX-R600. His teammate will be Frenchman Stephane Chambon. Fujiwara had the unluckiest season of his career in 2001 and is eager to show his true worth in 2002.

His teammate Stephane Chambon had a hard year on the Superbike in 2001 and is happy to return to the class in which he won the Supersport World Series title in 1999. The combination of Fujiwara and Chambon will make Team Alstare Suzuki Supersport a force to be reckoned with in 2002.

Both teams will be testing before Christmas and further information will be made available when all plans will be finalized.

Rider Profiles

Gregorio Lavilla
Date of Birth: 29 September 1973
Nationality: Spaniard Career Highlights
2nd in Spanish 125cc Championship - 1992
Spanish 600cc Champion,Spanish 750cc Champion - 1994
12th in World Superbike Championship - 1998
8th in World Superbike Championship - 1999
10th in World Superbike Championship - 2000
10th in World Superbike Championship - 2001

Katsuaki Fujiwara
Date of birth: 27th March 1975
Nationality: Japanese Career highlights:
1st in Suzuka 4 hr race -1992
3rd in All-Japan 250cc Championship - 1994
3rd in All-Japan 250cc Championship - 1995
5th in All-Japan Superbike Championship - 1996
2nd in All-Japan Superbike Championship - 1997
9th in All-Japan Superbike Championship - 1999
9th in Superbike World Championship - 2000
12th in World Supersport Championship - 2001

Stephane Chambon
Date of birth: 10th August 1965
Nationality: French Career highlights:
French 250cc Motocross Champion Three times winner of the "Guidon d'Or"
Five Supermotard titles
1st in 125cc French Promosport Championship
1st in French Superbike Championship - 1996
1st in French Supersport Championship - 1996
4th in Supersport World Series - 1997
3rd in Supersport World Series - 1998
1st in Supersport World Championship - 1999
3rd in Supersport World Championship - 2000
12th in World Superbike Championship - 2001