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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.
Current FIM Endurance World Championship leading team, Yoshimura Suzuki Endurance Racing Team Motul, enter the third round of the championship, the 43rd Coca Cola Suzuka 8 Hours with high hopes of a podium finish, confirmed by a promising first day of testing. Thanks to its victory in the 24 Heures Motos of Le Mans (France) and its fourth place in the 24 Hours of Spa EWC Motos (Belgium), the Yoshimura SERT Motul team leads the provisional world championship standings by 15 points. The Japanese event marks the halfway point of the season.
After turning up to Suzuka with a managerial suit and briefcase Yoshimura SERT Motul Team rider Gregg Black finds himself back on riding duties for the third round of the FIM Endurance World Championship after team-mate Xavier Siméon had to withdraw from the race after a positive test for Covid-19. Black gets back behind the handlebars of the #1 Suzuki GSX-R1000R and is due to ride alongside the rider who replaced him for this event, Japanese rider Kazuki Watanbe and fellow Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, notwithstanding a hand injury for the latter in testing. «Yeah, a bit of a change! It's a hard situation at the moment because, you know, COVID.
Part of the unique flavour of the EWC Suzuka 8 Hours is the multitude of Japanese teams contesting their local event harnessing riders and management both well-known on the international stage and those who have more fame at home. We’ll be having a word with some of the local heroes to hear what they have to say across this week’s event.Takumi Takahashi#33 Team HRC Honda CBR 1000 RR-RSP Takumi Takahashi is a multi-time Japanese champion back home celebrating multiple title victories in the All Japan Road Race Championship.
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.