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Gino Rea, rider of F.C.C. TSR Honda France bike #5, has been taken to hospital following an accident in Free Practice 2 for the 43rd Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race, round three of the FIM Endurance World Championship.
YART – Yamaha Official Team EWC have been on the money right from the off for the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship. Friday saw Italian Niccolò Canepa go quickest in the Q1 Yellow Rider session, as well as being fastest during his time in the Night Practice Session, which was topped by team-mate Marvin Fritz who was out last for the squad.
Yoshimura Suzuki Endurance Racing Team Motul will have it all to do in Sunday’s third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship after the rain-affected Red Rider Qualifying sessions for the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours. The championship-leading squad has dropped to a two-rider line-up following Sylvain Guintoli’s withdrawal after a hand injury sustained in testing. With just two riders – Kazuki Watanabe and Gregg Black – only two qualifying groups could be used by the team, with Watanabe a Red Rider and Black Yellow.
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.