2022 Suzuka Eight-Hours: Team HRC take win by a lap
Team HRC demolished considerable opposition in japan today, winning the prestigious Suzuka Eight-Hours by a lap from Kawasaki in second and Yoshimura Suzuki in third.
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Pole for HRC for home EWC Suzuka 8 Hours
A delayed and revised Top 10 Trial for pole position for the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship saw Tetsuta Nagashima post a 2m04.934 to take pole position on the #33 Team HRC CBR1000RR-RSP for tomorrow’s 43rd running of the Coca-Cola Suzua 8 Hours whilst YART lead the way for the EWC season-contenders. After mixed conditions affected running so far at Suzuka the single pole lap format was revised for an open 40-minute session for the two nominated riders from each team. For Team HRC, it was Nagashima first to push the Bridgestones, with the pole lap set on his first flying lap, which would prove to be unbeatable for the rest of the session.
Kawasaki quickest in red-flagged Free Practice Two for EWC Suzuka
Leon Haslam was the quickest rider in a Free Practice Two session which was interrupted by three red flags at Suzuka for the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship, the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours. Haslam posted a 2m06.726s on the #10 Kawasaki Racing Team Suzuka 8H ZX-10R early in the session before the first red flag which came after 6 minutes when the #38 K’s Racing Works Superstock rider Yoshinori Yamauchi had an off at T1.
YART slips in a late fast one in the night wet runs for EWC Suzuka practice
YART — Yamaha Official Team EWC rider Marvin Fritz was the fastest man on a wet but slowly drying Suzuka circuit in a delayed Night Free Practice Session for the 43rd Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours, round three of the FIM Endurance World Championship. The German rider on the #7 Yamaha posted his time in the final ten minutes of the hour-long session, using wet Bridgestone tyres to top local hero Kazuki Watanbe on the #1 Yoshimura SERT Motul Suzuki GSX-R1000R Frtiz’s 2m23.908s was almost half a second ahead of Watanbe’s slightly earlier lap, also set using the Bridgestone wets.
2022 Suzuka Eight-Hours: ‘It’s about who makes the least mistakes’ - Rea
Six-time WorldSBK king Jonathan Rea has stated the key to Suzuka Eight-Hours success is not about who is the fastest but who makes the least errors.
2022 Suzuka Eight-Hours: Podium the target for YART’s Canepa
YART ended the final Suzuka Eight-Hours test on top of the podium and rider Nico Canepa believes there is no reason why the squad can’t at least stand on the podium this weekend.
Countdown to EWC Suzuka 8 Hours: How Kawasaki is doubling its chances of home endurance glory
Kawasaki’s hopes of a second consecutive victory in the Suzuka 8 Hours rest with not one but two frontrunning teams. As well as the ace Webike SRC Kawasaki France line-up of Randy de Puniet, Florian Marino and Etienne Masson, the Japanese make can also count on its star-studded official factory entry featuring FIM Superbike World Championship riders Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes, plus Leon Haslam, who competes in the British equivalent. Ad/> The all-British trio will compete under the Kawasaki Racing Team Suzuka 8H banner and all three riders have strong records when it comes to success in Japan’s round of the FIM Endurance World Championship, which is back on the calendar for the first time since 2019 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
‘Proud’ Rea takes stock of WorldSBK
You have to have an extraordinary degree of self-motivation and determination to secure multiple titles at anything, and it is no different for six-time WorldSBK champion, Jonathan Rea.