Suzuka 8 Hours
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EWC: A Kawasaki Team Green–Yamaha Factory duel in the lead
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After a start in the rain dominated by Red Bull Honda with Japan Post, Kawasaki Team Green and Yamaha Factory Racing Team are putting on quite a show in the lead at the Suzuka 8 Hours. After a very disturbed night caused by the passage of a typhoon, it started raining again just as the…
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EWC: Kawasaki Team Green on pole at Suzuka
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Kawasaki Team Green has claimed pole position for the Suzuka 8 Hours following a qualifying session in lieu of the Top 10 Trial, which had to be cancelled due to rain showers this morning. Red Bull Honda with Japan Post moved up to 2nd place on the grid, ahead of Yamaha Factory Racing Team. Rain…
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EWC: Kawasaki Team Green pulls off double coup at the Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance
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Kawasaki Team Green has picked up provisional pole at the Suzuka 8 Hours and Jonathan Rea has set a new Endurance lap record with a 2:05.168. Kawasaki Team Green rider Jonathan Rea has smashed the lap record in qualifying set by Pol Espargaró (a 2:06.000) in the 2015 Top 10 Trial. The FIM Superbike triple…
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Rea joins Haslam and Watanabe on Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR’s for the 2018 Suzuka 8 Hours
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Triple World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea will partner Leon Haslam and Kazuma Watanabe at the 2018 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race – as Kawasaki looks to topple three time consecutive winners Yamaha. Last year, Kawasaki finished in second place at the iconic Japanese endurance – with Haslam, Watanabe and Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman coming in just…
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Team HRC heads to Suzuka 8 hours in 2018
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Honda has announced that its official Team HRC will participate in both the JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship 2018 and the next running of the Suzuka 8 hours. Riding a CBR1000RR will be Takhashi Takahashi , reigning Japanese national champion, who will try to retain his title after unseating Yamaha and…
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Bridgestone announces return to world racing scene with WEC deal
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Bridgestone announces return to world racing scene with WEC deal. Bridgestone has announced that it will supply racing tyres to two teams in the FIM Endurance World Championship series (EWC). Both YART Yamaha Official EWC Team and the F.C.C. TSR Honda team will race on Bridgestone tyres for the next round of the FIM EWC,…
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Now THIS is TV racing commentary!
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The footage has been sent to us from Japan and it’s great. The coverage of the Suzuka 8 Hour race last month is brilliant, as you’d expect, but the extra delight is the Japanese commentary. It’s great. No over-the-top waffle and no boring-stats fest. Plus, these guys really know what they’re talking about (we…
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Max Biaggi: I fancy having a go at Suzuka 8 Hour with Yamaha
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Six time world champion Max Biaggi has got the race rumour-mill twittering away with a tweet he posted yesterday about the Suzuka 8 Hour event. In short, Max has said that he’d pretty much fancies having a go at racing in the annual outing from the factories on home turf. Biaggi was a regular at…
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Suzuka 8 Hour: Alex Lowes wins, Leon Haslam second, Josh Brookes third (with their team-mates, naturally)
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Suzuka 8 Hour: Alex Lowes wins, Leon Haslam second, Josh Brookes third (with their team-mates, naturally). Alex Lowes has won the Suzuka 8 Hour endurance race in Japan alongside Yamaha Factory Racing team-mates Pol Espargaró and Katsuyuki Nakasuga. It was the second year in succession that Yamaha has won the prestigious annual race, second place…
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Video: Leon Haslam pit-stop at Suzuka. In and out in 21 seconds!
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Video: Leon Haslam pit-stop at Suzuka. In and out in 21 seconds! Here’s a cool bit of video at the bottom of this article. It shows our lad Leon Haslam getting ready to get out at Suzuki in Japan during practice ahead of this weekend’s 8-hour race. Leon is the rider getting onto the bike…
