Eskil Suter was born on 29 June 1967 in Turbenthal, Zürich, Switzerland. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing through the 1990s, achieving his best world championship results in 1994 and 1996 when he finished thirteenth in the 250 cc class. He also raced in one round of the 1997 Superbike World Championship and served as a development rider for the MuZ team during the 1998 500 cc season, taking over from injured regular rider Doriano Romboni and scoring points in three races.
Suter Racing Technology was established in 1996, initially as a project engineering consultancy focused on motorcycle racing. Early work included the chassis design and concept for the MuZ 500 in 1999, developed in cooperation with Swissauto following the MuZ team's decision to abandon the ROC frame they had previously used.
Before the establishment of the Moto2 class, Suter Racing Technology accumulated substantial experience at the highest levels of motorcycle engineering. SRT was responsible for designing and developing the chassis for the Petronas FP1, a 900 cc three-cylinder machine that competed in the Superbike World Championship from 2002 to 2005. The company also contributed to development work on the Kawasaki ZX-RR MotoGP machine between 2004 and 2006, and in 2006 and 2007 collaborated with Ilmor Engineering on the chassis design for the ambitious 800 cc Ilmor X3 MotoGP prototype.
When the Moto2 class was introduced in 2010 with standardised Honda engines, Suter Racing Technology entered as one of the founding chassis constructors. The company's depth of engineering experience translated immediately into competitive hardware. Suter won the Manufacturers' Championship in the inaugural 2010 season and retained it in 2011 — despite neither season producing a Suter-mounted world champion — on the strength of widespread results across multiple teams running the chassis.
In 2012, Suter claimed its third consecutive Manufacturers' title and simultaneously secured its most prestigious individual result: Marc Marquez became Moto2 world champion that year riding a Suter chassis. The achievement was the first world championship for Marquez, who would go on to win multiple MotoGP premier-class titles in subsequent seasons.
Alongside its Moto2 programme, Suter Racing Technology developed a MotoGP prototype machine for the 2012 season. The bike used BMW S1000RR-derived 1000 cc engines and was tested from late 2010 through 2011 by the Marc VDS Racing Team. The machine subsequently competed in the top class under the Claiming Rule Team framework with Forward Racing, representing one of the more ambitious engineering ventures attempted by an independent constructor during the early 1000 cc era.
Following Suter's period of dominance in Moto2, the Kalex chassis gradually overtook the field as teams switched allegiances. Where Suter had established the template for competitive Moto2 chassis construction, Kalex refined and extended it, eventually achieving even greater market penetration and win rates across subsequent seasons.
Suter's three consecutive Manufacturers' Championships in the opening three seasons of Moto2 remain the company's defining achievement, and Marc Marquez's 2012 title — won on Suter machinery — stands as the most significant individual result associated with the brand. For Eskil Suter, the Moto2 programme was the culmination of a transition from competitor to constructor that had begun with his first chassis design work in the late 1990s.