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Next stop on EWC calendar Japan | Suzuka 8 Hours

Motorcycle News by Motorcycle News
June 19, 2019
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Endurance World Championship 2019

Suzuka 8 Hours Preview


The Suzuka 8 Hours is just over a month away and the 2019 race is shaping up to be a memorable one, with the Japanese factory teams entering the race with one clear objective: taking the win to dash Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s (YART’s) hopes of a fifth consecutive victory.

Suzuka Hour Honda Start
Suzuka 8 Hour 2018

The 42nd edition of the Suzuka 8 Hours is also the FIM EWC season finale. Team SRC Kawasaki France, Suzuki Endurance Racing Team and reigning champions F.C.C. TSR Honda France are the contenders for the title.

Unbeaten at the Suzuka 8 Hours since 2015, Yamaha Factory Racing Team are once again fielding their 2017 and 2018 winning line-up. Katsuyuki Nakasuga, Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark will be riding a Yamaha Tech 21 Shiseido in the historic colours of the first-ever factory machine to be entered by Yamaha in 1985 as they target a fifth straight win. The other Japanese manufacturers are hoping to scupper Yamaha Factory’s plans.

FIM EWC LeMans Hour YART
YART Yamaha

Kawasaki are returning to Suzuka with a KRT factory team. After finishing on the podium for the last three years as Kawasaki Team Green, this year Kawasaki Racing Team are targeting the win with riders Jonathan Rea, Leon Haslam and Toprak Razgatlioglu. The three riders are among the FIM Superbike World Championship’s Top 7. Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam finished 3rd at Suzuka last year with Kawasaki Team Green.

As to Suzuki, Yoshimura have announced a line-up of seasoned riders. Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, Suzuki’s MotoGP test rider, will be in the saddle partnering two Japanese riders, Kasuki Watanabe and veteran Yukio Kagayama, who is making a comeback in the Yoshimura colours. He finished second at Suzuka in 2011 before entering his own Team Kagayama, who monopolised the third step of the podium from 2013 to 2015.

H Oschersleben FCC TSR Honda France
F.C.C. TSR Honda France

The Honda colours will predominate at Suzuka. Having returned to the Suzuka race last year, Honda HRC have lined up Takumi Takahashi, the current leader in the JSB1000 Japanese Superbike and three-time winner of the Suzuka 8 Hours, alongside Ryuichi Kiyonari, the FIM Superbike World Championship rider with four Suzuka wins to his credit, and HRC’s MotoGP test rider Stefan Bradl all partnering to ride the Red Bull Honda #33.

The Honda fleet also includes Musashi RT Harc-Pro Honda, au Teluru RT, KYB Moriwaki Racing, Honda Asia Dream and Honda Dream RT Sakurai, not to mention F.C.C. TSR Honda France, who are still in with a chance of winning the 2018-2019 FIM EWC title, and Honda Endurance Racing, who will be seeking retaliation after being forced to withdraw at Oschersleben.

FIM EWC LeMans Hour SRC Kawasaki Pit
Team SRC Kawasaki France

In the run-up to the Grand Finale, Team SRC Kawasaki France lead the standings with 132 points ahead of Suzuki Endurance Racing Team, with 127 points, and F.C.C. TSR Honda France, with 109.

Their goal is to take on the top Japanese teams on their home ground and seize the opportunity offered by the season finale to score 150% of the regular points in order to claim the world title with 45 points are awarded to the winner of the Suzuka 8 Hours.

The 42nd edition of the Suzuka 8 Hours will be held in Japan on Sunday 28 July.

2019 Endurance World Championship Standings

PosTeam / EquipeTotal
1Team Src Kawasaki France132
2Suzuki Endurance Racing Team127
3F.C.C. Tsr Honda France109
4Wepol Racing101
5Yart – Yamaha88
6Honda Endurance Racing79
7Bolliger Team Switzerland73
8Vrd Igol Pierret Experiences53
9Moto Ain45
10Gert56 By Gs Yuasa45
11Bmrt 3d Maccio Racing39
12Fany Gastro Bmw Motorrad- By Mercury Racing38
13Webike Tati Team Trickstar36
14Team 33 Coyote  Louit Moto32
15Junior Team Lms Suzuki30
16Wójcik Racing Team 228
17No Limits Motor Team28
183art- Moto Team 9527
19National Motos25
20Motors Events24
21Motobox Kremer Racing #6524
22Wójcik Racing Team23
23Team Erc-Bmw Motorrad Endurance14
24Team 18 Sapeurs Pompiers12
25Team Lrp Poland12
26Maco Racing Team12
27Jma Motos Action Bike8
28Og Motorsport By Sarazin7
29Zuff Racing Team6
30Am Moto Racing Competition5
31Mototech Ewc Team4
32Pitlane Endurance3
33Gsm Racing2
34Slider Endurance1
35Falcon Racing Rennes Motos1
36Set Racing1

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