Ever wondered why the Honda-owned circuit has a corner named after a German Suzuki rider? It’s a bizarre tale involving cold-war industrial espionage ...

‘Spoon’, ‘130R’, ‘Hairpin’, ‘S Curves’. The corner names at Suzuka have prescriptive, unembellished quality. Except for… Degner. For a brief time in the 1960s Ernst Degner was a ...