Team Yoshimura Suzuki’s Atsushi Watanabe raced to third position in the opening round of the All Japan Superbike Championship at Twinring, Motegi after the race was red-flagged due to rain. GSX-R1000-mounted Watanabe and team mate Kousuke Akiyoshi led from the start and held strong lead when the race was stopped on the 12th lap. But on the 8-lap restart, Watanabe gated a lowly eighth and Akiyoshi slid off the track on lap five.
Said Watanabe: “Today I raced the ST600 Superbike classes but I don’t feel tired. The Yoshimura GSX-R is so fast and my first Bridgestone tyres worked very well, but I would like to win the next round and I hope for a Yoshimura’s GSX-R one-two finish.”
Results:1: Akira Yanagawa (Kawasaki)
2: Osamu Deguchi (Honda)
3: Atsuishi Watanabe (Yoshimura Suzuki)
4: Kazuki Tokudome (Honda)
5: Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha)
6: Yoshiyuki Sugai (Ducati)
7: Chojun Kameya (Honda)
8: Hiroyuki Kawese (Suzuki)
9: Yoshiteru Konishi (Honda)
10: Shin-ichi Itoh (Honda)
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