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Fighting Sixth for Rizla Suzuki’s Capirossi at Motegi
28 September 2008
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racer Loris Capirossi produced a hard fought race to bring his Suzuki GSV-R home in sixth position at Motegi today. Starting from sixth on the grid, Capirossi maintained the position early on as he kept up with the break-away front group, but a mistake on lap 12 cost him dearly and he dropped back towards the following pack. He chased back to Nicky Hayden in fifth, and was close enough to make a challenge on the last lap, but he had a big slide and the opportunity disappeared. Capirossi scored 10 points for his sixth place finish and has now moved up to ninth in the riders’ championship.
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Second Row Start for Capirossi in Suzuki’s Homeland
27 September 2008
Loris Capirossi will start from the second row of the grid for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix after recording the sixth fastest time on his Rizla Suzuki GSV-R at Motegi today. Capirossi (1’46.450, 27 laps) looked strong throughout the qualifying session and was in with a chance of grabbing a front row start – or possibly even pole position – as he powered his way around the 4,801m circuit.
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Capirossi Fifth at Suzuki’s Home GP in Motegi
26 September 2008
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racer Loris Capirossi was on the pace at Motegi in Japan during today’s free practice sessions as he clocked the fifth fastest time. Capirossi (1’48.779, 42 laps) has won the last three Motegi Grands Prix and as this afternoon’s session wore on he started to discover the form around the 4,801m Japanese circuit that has given him so much success.
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Rizla Suzuki Threesome Head Home for Japanese GP
23 September 2008
Motegi is situated about 90km/s north-east of Tokyo and the Japanese circuit will be celebrating its 10th successive year of GP racing this coming weekend. Originally constructed in 1997 as a oval test-track for evaluating the performance of American Indy cars, it also incorporated a road circuit that is as safe and as well equipped as any on the MotoGP calendar.
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Top-10 For Hopkins
23 September 2007
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP had a frustrating Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi today with all three riders suffering various levels of difficulties over an entertaining and bizarre 24-lap race. John Hopkins was the highest finishing Rizla Suzuki rider with 10th place. He struggled to get enough grip right from the start of the race – which was wet after heavy showers this morning – and lost several places early on. As the track began to dry he pitted his GSV-R at the end of lap 10 to change to a machine with dry tyres. He re-joined the race in 16th place and set about chasing down the pack in front of him, fighting his way through the field and eventually bringing his bike home in 10th.
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Difficult Qualifying At Motegi For Rizla Suzuki
22 September 2007
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racers John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen suffered their worst grid positions of the season as the pair struggled to improve significantly on their race tyre times during this afternoon’s qualifying session for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. Hopkins (P11, 1’47.163, 23 laps) will start outside of the top-10 for the first time this season and will be looking for one of his now customary good starts to make sure he is able to get away with the front runners. He had improved on his race pace though throughout the day and looks strong and consistent. Hopkins is still in a confident mood as he heads into tomorrow’s race and is sure that he can put on a good show for Suzuki at its home GP.
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Hopkins Leads The Way For Rizla Suzuki
21 September 2007
John Hopkins was the fastest of the trio of Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racers during today’s free practice sessions at Motegi in preparation for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix, as he recorded the fourth quickest time of the day. Hopkins (1’48.361, 45 laps) looked fast and settled right from the start of the day and topped the leaderboard during both hour-long sessions. The confident Anglo-American is pleased with the progress he and his team have made and is sure there is still more to come from both himself and his Rizla Suzuki GSV-R tomorrow.
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Rizla Suzuki Turning Japanese For Trip To Motegi
20 September 2007
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP heads to the land of the rising sun this week with its team strengthened by the inclusion of Team Test Rider Kousuke Akiyoshi, to form a three-man attack at the Japanese rider’s home circuit. Akiyoshi will be making only his third Grand Prix start this coming weekend and is eager to continue with the excellent form he showed at last season’s Japanese Grand Prix. He qualified in 12th position and finished in 13th – in front of many more experienced riders – whilst giving a very impressive debut performance.
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Akiyoshi Takes Tsukuba Podium
19 May 2007
Suzuki factory test rider Kousuke Akiyoshi raced his Wins GSX-R1000 to his first podium of the season at the third round of the All Japan Superbike series at Tsukuba. After smashing the lap record to record pole position, Akiyoshi and Yoshimura Suzuki's Atsushi Watanabe trailed Yamaha's Norick Abe into the opening corner before Akiyoshi took the lead before the end of the opening lap. The race was red flagged twice due to fallen riders in the track and on the final restart, Abe led again with the Suzuki men further back in the pack.
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Solid Day’s Work For Rizla Suzuki In Spain
24 March 2007
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racers John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen recorded the seventh and eighth fastest times respectively during today’s free practice sessions for the Jerez Grand Prix on Sunday. Hopkins (1’41.245, 49 laps) is still suffering from his hand injury, but put together some fast laps on his Suzuki GSV-R as he worked with his team to find the best combination of Bridgestone race tyres to match the new 800cc bike’s performance around the 4.4km track. Hopkins missed the IRTA test at Jerez earlier in the year – due to the injuries he sustained at Qatar – and had to take a gamble on the correct tyres to use because he had no data as to how the new bike would perform on this circuit.
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Will Spanish Eyes Be Smiling For Rizla Suzuki At Jerez?
20 March 2007
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP travels back to Europe for the second round of the 2007 MotoGP World Championship this week, looking to expand upon a strong showing in Qatar. Both John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen have been encouraged by their first round performances. Hopkins finished fourth in Doha, despite being below-strength due to injuries sustained at the same circuit in testing last month. Suzuki’s Anglo-American star is determined to carry the momentum to Spain and ride to the maximum of his and the GSV-R’s ability.
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Rizla Suzuki In The Points At Motegi
24 September 2006
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racers Chris Vermeulen and John Hopkins, plus Team Test rider Kousuke Akiyoshi all scored points in today’s Japanese Grand Prix. Vermeulen and Hopkins finished in 11th and 12th places respectively with Akiyoshi – making his Grand Prix debut – just behind them. Vermeulen was racing at Motegi for the first time and gave a solid performance on his Suzuki GSV-R, Akiyoshi was also particularly impressive in his first ever MotoGP race and beat seasoned racers to score a fine 13th place.
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Mixed Day For Rizla Suzuki At Motegi
23 September 2006
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racer John Hopkins had a day of two distinct halves in Japan today as the morning session saw him as one of the fastest riders on race tyres, but a crash in qualifying saw him relegated to the fifth row for tomorrow’s race. The 23-year-old Anglo-American has been up with the quickest times all weekend on his Bridgestone race tyres and continued that this morning. Hopkins (P13, 1’47.071) continued to test the tyres he will use in tomorrow’s race whilst other riders chose to use qualifiers in the first session. He showed that he has a good race set-up as he recorded consistently fast laps. The afternoon qualifying session didn’t go to plan and a heavy crash with 10 minutes remaining cost Hopkins valuable time, he was able to get back on track on his second bike but couldn’t better his earlier time.
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Solid Start For Rizla Suzuki In Japan
22 September 2006
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP made a steady start to the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, with all three riders getting through a lot of positive work in readiness for Sunday’s race. John Hopkins (P8, 1’47.915, 49 laps) was the quickest rider on the circuit during the morning session and found a dry setting that worked well. This enabled him to spend the afternoon’s hour long session to try many other settings on his Rizla Suzuki GSV-R to find additional performance. Hopkins and his crew learnt many things in the session and now have a clear direction for Sunday.
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Akiyoshi On Japan Superbike Pole For Suzuki
16 April 2006
Team Yoshimura Suzuki’s Kousuke Akiyoshi took his first pole position of the season today for the second-round All Japan Superbike Championship round at Suzuka tomorrow. Akiyoshi set his fastest time of 2:23.233 in the final qualifying session under wet and misty conditions as team mate Atsushi Watanabe recorded the third fastest time of the day with 2:25.199.
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