Mat Mladin rode this Yoshimura Suzuki, based on the 2000 Suzuki Gsxr 750, to four wins and a championship in 2001 (it is shown at Yoshimura's California race shop in spring 2005). Yoshimura chose not to race the new bike in 2000 because development time was tight, and besides, the team had the '99 bike working extremely well.
It was a good plan, as Mladin took the first of his five AMA Superbike titles in '99.
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