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The third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship, the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours, is a race with a difference, not least in how the grid for the race is formed. As Friday ebbs into Saturday, so riders Blue, Yellow and Red have set times in their first and second qualifying sessions.
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.
Yoshimura Suzuki Endurance Racing Team Motul rider Sylvain Guintoli will not participate in the 43rd Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours, the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship, the squad has confirmed. Guintoli sustained an injury to his left hand during testing at Suzuka test earlier this week and subsequently flew back to the UK for treatment.
It may not have been the Blues that had the blues but the Reds certainly had cause to see red on an afternoon where the weather reigned as master of qualifying destiny for the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship. Just as Q1 seemingly saw the best conditions for the Blue Riders, so Q2 followed a similar path.
Tetsuta Nagashima unleashed the opening salvo in the Suzuka 8 Hours qualifying contest with blinding lap to put the #33 Team HRC Honda CBR1000RR-RSP into 2m04s territory in the first of the three Q1 sessions. Nagashima used every bit of his Bridgestones’ adhesion and knew he had set a blinder with his 2m04.942s, waving to the crowds as he returned to the pits halfway through the 20-minute first session for Blue Riders.
Tetsuta Nagashima set an early marker as practice for the FIM Endurance World Championship third round — the 43rd Coca Cola Suzuka 8 Hours — got underway on Friday morning, with a storming brace of laps in the 2m05s to highlight the pure pace potential of the #33 Team HRC entry this weekend. The Bridgestone-shod works Honda rider first dipped into the 2m05s with a 2m05.965s on the CBR1000RR-RSP, then lowered that the next lap to 2m05.823s which was at that point over 1.7secs faster than the next quickest bike at the humid Suzuka circuit.
Reigning MotoGP Champion Fabio Quartararo heads into the British Grand Prix with a long lap penalty looming.
It’s a familiar face in a new berth this weekend as Frenchman Erwan Nigon joins the #2 EVA RT 01 Webike TRICKSTAR Kawasaki squad alongside Japanese riders Hikari Okubo and Yuto Sano for the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship, the 43rd Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours. The 38-year-old two-time FIM Endurance World Champion was most recently seen out in action in the EWC for Viltaïs Racing Igol aboard their Dunlop-shod #333 Yamaha Yamaha YZF-R1, so it’s a change of tyres as well as bike marque as he jumps to Bridgestone and Kawasaki this weekend.“It's a great pleasure to join Trickstar because it's like family for me.