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Watanbe Clinches Japan SBK Title!
25 October 2007
Yoshimura Suzuki's Atsushi Watanabe clinched the Japanese Superbike Championship at the seventh and final round at Suzuka at the weekend.It was his second title, the first being in 2002, and the first for the Yoshimura team since Doug Polen raced to victory in the TT-F1 and TT-F3 championships in 1989. GSX-R1000-mounted Watanabe won the opening round at Twinring Motegi and rode consistently throughout, winning two races and taking to the podium four times.
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Carlos Checa Takes Superpole on The Honda HRC
30 July 2007
Carlos Checa stole the headlines in Saturday afternoon’s “Special Stage” qualifying session at Suzuka, with a lap of 2’07.587 on the Honda HRC 33. Behind the Honda is the Yamaha Racing 21 team of Nobuyuki Osaki and Katsuyuki Nakasuga (2’07.806) and the Suzuki Yoshimura with Jomo 34 team of Kosuke Akiyoshi and Yukio Kagayama (2’07.969).
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Yoshimura Suzuki Wins At Suzuka
30 July 2007
Team Yoshimura Suzuki's Yukio Kagayama and Kousuke Akiyoshi raced their GSX-R1000 to victory in the Suzuka 8 Hour World Endurance third round in Japan - the team's first Suzuka endurance win for almost 30 years. It was back in 1978 at the inaugural Suzuka 8 Hour race that the team tasted victory aboard their GS1000R. Kagayama led from the start from Honda's Ryuichi Kiyonari, Norick Abe (Yamaha) and Tady Okada (Honda), opening up a 15-second advantage by the one hour mark when Akiyoshi took over.
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An Imposing Line-Up Set To Start of Suzuka 8 Hours
13 July 2007
86 teams will take to the track for the ‘Coca Cola Zero Suzuka 8 Hours’, the third race in the QMMF Endurance FIM World Championship series, which kicks off in Japan on 29th July. 18 permanent teams will be on the start line and, as every year, the rest of the racers will be made up of official, semi-official and privateer Japanese teams. The official Honda team, HRC, will line-up with two CBR 1000RR machines. One will be ridden by two stars of world motorcycle racing - Ryuichi Kiyonari, current leader of the British Superbike Championship, and James Toseland, leader of the World Superbike Championship. Tadayuki Okada will be the replacement rider. On the second HRC Honda, Britain’s Jonathan Rea, currently lying second in the British Superbike Championship, will partner MotoGP star Carlos Checa. These two machines are the undoubted favourites to win in Japan. Ryuichi Kiyonari and Jonathan Rea, team-mates in the HM Plant British Superbike team, were the winners of the ‘Suzuka 300km’ race back on 10th June.
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30th Coca Cola Zero Suzuka - 8 Hours Race!!
01 July 2007
18 permanent teams will go head-to-head on 29th July in Japan at the ‘Coca Cola Zero Suzuka 8 Hours’ race, the third leg of the QMMF Endurance FIM World Championship. The 30th edition of this legendary endurance race is a special highlight of the racing calendar and is often a pivotal point in the World Championship race. At the top of the Championship standings is the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT), the favourites among the permanent teams. SERT has only a single Championship point advantage over Kawasaki Motor France but will have the opportunity to stretch its lead at Suzuka as Kawasaki Motor France will not be on the start line.
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Kyonari And Rae Take Suzuka 300km Race Victory
12 June 2007
Ryuichi Kyonari and Jonathan Rae raced their CBR100RR to victory in the Suzuka 300km race he at the fast Japanese circuit today as the Anglo - Japanese duo laid solid foundations for their assault on the prestigious 2007 FIM World Endurance ”Coca Cola ZERO” Suzuka 8 hours to be held at the circuit on Sunday July 29, 2007.
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Kagayama And Suzuki Win In Japan
06 November 2006
World Superbike rider Yukio Kagayama raced to victory in the final round of the Japanese Superbike Championship at Suzuka on Sunday as Suzuki clinched the series Manufacturer Championship. The GSX-R1000-mounted Alstare Suzuki rider formed his own team “JK Suzuki with Bright Logic” for the race, which was his first home championship appearance since 2002.
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Pirelli at the Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance
31 July 2006
Suzuka 8 Hour is one of the most popular races in the world. For the Endurance enthusiasts this is together with the Bol D’Or and the Le Mans 24h the main event of the season. Every year permanent riders face in this race all the “guest stars” with their Official bikes, with more than 70 teams competing.
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Yoshimura Suzuki 3rd At Suzuka
31 July 2006
Team Yoshimura Suzuki’s Nobuatsu Aoki and Atsushi Watanabe raced their GSX-R1000 into third position in the Suzuka 8-Hour World Endurance fifth round as reigning World Champions Suzuki Castrol crashed three times, finished a lowly 38th, but still came away with a 21-point lead in the series.
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Yoshimura Suzuki 2nd In Suzuka Qualifying
29 July 2006
Yoshimura Suzuki’s Akira Watanabe has put his GSX-R1000 into provisional second on the grid for Sunday’s Suzuka 8-Hour World Endurance fifth round as World Champions and series leaders Suzuki Castrol are currently down in 15th. Watanabe set a time of 2:09.636, which was just over 400ths-of-a-second behind pole-setter Yoshiteru Konishi on the Toy Story Honda.
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Edwards And Haga Reunite For Suzuka 8-Hour
26 June 2006
Yamaha has finalized its plans for round five of the 2006 Endurance World Championship, the Suzuka 8-hour race held at the Japanese circuit on 30 July. A three-team entry will be headed by the Yamaha Blue Racing team, which will feature riders Colin Edwards and Noriyuki Haga riding a specially prepared YZF-R1 SP. The event will mark a reunion of the rider pairing which won the event in 1996, when they rode a Yamaha YZF750SP.
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Watanabe Takes Japan Superbike Lead
17 April 2006
Team Yoshimura Suzuki’s Atsushi Watanabe has taken over the lead in the All Japan Superbike Championship after finishing second at Sunday’s Suzuka second round. After wet qualifying and morning warm-up, the GSX-R1000 mounted rider took the lead early on followed by team mate Kousuke Akiyoshi, who then moved to the front at the end of the opening lap. But Akiyoshi fell one lap later because of oil on the circuit which caused the race to be red flagged.
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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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