At Motorcycle Live 2016 Team Classic Suzuki built the Katana that was also entered into the 2017 Endurance Legends event at Donington Park.

As the Suzuki Vintage Parts Programme were the main sponsors of the event, it was a great opportunity to actually compete in the race. The team was James Whitham, Steve Parrish and Michael Neeves and unfortunately the bike was retired very early in the race! Next outing was at the Spa Classic with Guy Martin and Pete Boast who finished a fantastic seventh in terrible conditions. 

It was also raced at Aragon with Michael Neeves and Pete Boast and whilst battling for third place and with 2 laps to go (roughly 4 minutes left of the 4 hour race), unfortunately Pete fell off at the end of the back straight. In 2017 the bike made a return to the Classic Endurance Series at Donington again this time with John Reynolds standing in for James Whitham and whilst in 2nd place the bike was retired with a technical issue. Finally, in July the bike went to Oschersleben with John Reynolds and Pete Boast, in 40+degrees of track temperature they brought the bike back ‘FIRST’ in class and third overall.

Suzuki GB aftersales co-ordinator, Tim Davies, said, "This was the third bike build to take place on our stand at Motorcycle Live; the TL1000S was our first and we celebrated the GSX-R750’s 30th anniversary with a restoration of an original F model. Both of those builds highlighted our commitment to our Vintage Parts Programme.”