Besides the MotoGP race at Laguna Seca race, the famous Suzuka 8 Hours race also took place this weekend and it was the HARC-PRO team with Takumi Takahashi, Ryuichi Kiyonari and 17 year old Takaaki Nakagami as the third rider who won the 33rd edition of this prestigious endurance race.
Takumi Takahashi, leader of the All Japan Superbike and Ryuichi Kiyonari (3rd win after 2005 and 2008 with HRC) conducted the race with a race pace around 2′09″ and taking advantage of all the incredible errors committed by the other teams.
Second place went to the Keihin Kohara Racing Team on a Honda with former MotoGP and WSBK rider Makoto Tamada and Shinichi Itoh.
The Yoshimura Suzuki of Daisaku Sakai and Yukio Kagayama who had grabbed the pole position, was stopped by two crashes by Sakai (we saw him in action in WSBK round at Monza) and finished the race in sixth place ,while race favourites F.
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TSR Honda with WSBK rider Jonathan Rea and Honda official test rider Kousuke Akiyoshi (who subbed for Hiroshi Aoyama in MotoGP) and Moto2 rider Yuki Takahashi went through two ride through penalities after Akiyoshi passed during the yellow flag regime twice and then Rea crashed getting back on track in 42nd position, four laps behind the leaders, before coming back with the best race lap, in 2’08.
705 and his team finishing third.
Suzuki Faro Plot Panthera, earned fourth place, ahead of the Honda Team Plus One who currently leads Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship.
Coca Cola Zero Suzuka 8 hours 2010 – Final Results01- MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kiyonari/Nakagami/Takahashi – 215 laps02- Keihin Kohara Racing Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – Itoh/Tamada03- F.
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TSR Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – Akiyoshi/Rea/Takahashi04- Plot Faro Panthera – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Deguchi/Yasuda/Kodama05- Team Plus One – Honda CBR 1000RR – Iwata/Teshima06- Yoshimura Suzuki with Eneos – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Sakai/Aoki/Kagayama07- Teloru HoneyBee Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Noda/Sekiguchi08- BEET Racing – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Takahashi/Hatano/Nishijima09- Bolliger Team Switzerland – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Saiger/Muff/Stamm10- Honda Escargot & PGR & Sayama – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kuboyama/Nakatsuhara11- Honda Suzuka Racing Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – Nakamura/Akiya12- Motobum and Ishigaki Island – Honda CBR 1000RR – Takahashi/Oki/Shimizu13- RS-Itoh & Asia – Kawasaki ZX 10R – Higashimura/Iwasaki/Ioda14- Team Frontier Clever-Wolf Racing – Yamaha YZF R1 – Teramoto/Nakai/Fukami15- Evangelion RT Test Type-01 Trick Star – Kawasaki ZX 10R – Takeishi/Serizawa/Konno16- Yamaha Austria Racing Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – Jerman/Martin/Giabbani17- Team NAP’S – Honda CBR 1000RR – Sato/Igarashi/Shimizu18- Tras & G-Tribe+8810R – BMW S1000RR – Toda/Takada/Saito19- Confia H.
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Like a wind – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – Takamiya/Takahashi/Suma20- Honda QCT Q-Youkai Meiwa – Honda CBR 1000RR – Ando/Noyori/Soh21- Honda Dream RT Wakayama Honda CBR 1000RR – Nishinaka/Soma/Yasutomi22- Yamashina Kawasaki & Business Ralliart – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Mizusawa/Yamasaki/Noda23- Team MIR Z-Tech – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Okuda/Yoshida/Mizutani24- Dogfish O-Tec Suzuka Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Ouchida/Yagi/Watanabe25- Honda Koyokai Dream Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Nakamura/Ebinuma26- Crown Keibihosyou Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Hamaguchi/Kitaguchi/Tani27- Winner Z-Tech – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Namekata/Kunimatsu28- WestPower – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Tsuda/Tani/Tanaka29- Suzuka Community Racing Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – Matsui/Shimoji30- Honda Ryokuyokai Kumamoto Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Yoshida/Iida/Kitaori31- Moto Kids/Kawauso – Yamaha YZF-R1 – Kayahara/Higuchi/Nakao32- Aprilia D.
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BOYS with A-STYLE – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – Tsuda/Gori33- Mito Moto & freaks – Honda CBR 1000RR – Takano/Kobayashi/Okada34- Bull Docker Halumoto – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – Mogi/Tanaka35- Honda Dream RT Sakurai Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kameya/Maxwell36- Team Honda Technical College – Honda CBR 1000RR – Furusawa/Hamaguchi37- Honda EG Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kuribayashi/Hondo/Fujishima