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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.