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That we find at the end of qualifying for the 8 Hours of Suzuka Japanese motorcycles in the lead, in this case the Yamaha #21 for a tenth ahead of Honda #634, will surprise no one.
Which we find at the end of qualifying for the Suzuka 8 Hours of the Japanese teams in the lead, in this case Yamaha Factory in front of MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO, will surprise no one.
On the other hand, it is a little more surprising to note that it was not the Western headliners of these crews who achieved the best times, but rather the representatives of the land of the rising sun.
In fact, it only took 2'06.908 to Katsuyuki Nakasuga to position his R1 in first provisional position while Espargaro Pol, the circuit record holder since last year in 2'06.000, has for the moment been content with a 2'07″333. Certainly, it's still better than the 2'07"713 ofalex lowes who, moreover, destroyed one of the two R1s available by falling at the Coca-Cola hairpin.
Likewise at Honda where it is good Takumi Takahashi who clocked 2'07.026 while Michael van der Mark achieved 2'07.425 while Nicky Hayden was satisfied with a 2'08.479.
Different factors can explain this, starting with cooler tires, a warmer track, and, above all, the desire to reserve oneself for the "Top 10 Trials", a sort of Superpole which will determine the order of the first 10 motorcycles on the starting grid.
We will note the fine performance of GMT94 which only fails by less than a tenth of the “Top 10 Trials” which will take place tomorrow at a.m. French time.
By then, the night tests will have taken place.
Coca-Cola Zero Suzuka 8 hours 2016
Ccombined fatigue of QP1 and QP2
Participants in the Top 10 Trials
01- Yamaha Factory Racing Team (Yamaha) – Nakasuga/Espargaro/Lowes – 2’06.908 *
02- MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO (Honda) – Takahashi/van der Mark/Hayden – 2'07.026 *
03- Team Green (Kawasaki) – Yanagawa/Watanabe/Haslam – 2’07.563 *
04- YART Yamaha Official EWC (Yamaha) – Parkes/Nozane/Fujita – 2'08.239 *
05- Yoshimura Suzuki Shell Advance (Suzuki) – Tsuda/Brookes/Haga – 2’08.248 *
06- FCC TSR Honda (Honda) – Watanabe/Aegerter/Jacobsen – 2'08.403 *
07- TOHO Racing (Honda) – Yamaguchi/Rea/Wilairot – 2’08.426 *
08- Team Kagayama (Suzuki) – Kagayama/Kiyonari/Uramoto – 2’08.474 *
09- MotoMap Supply (Suzuki) – Konno/Waters/Aoki – 2'09.227 *
10- TeamJP DogFightRacing Australia (Yamaha) – Aitchison/Turner – 2’09.269 *
11- SatuHATI Honda Team Asia (Honda) – Ekky Pratama/Zaidi – 2’09.290
12- GMT94 Yamaha (Yamaha) – Checa/Canepa/Mahias – 2’09.299
13- Honda Suzuka Racing Team (Honda) – Hiura/Yasuda/Kamei – 2’09.371
14- EVA RT Test-Type TrickStar (Kawasaki) – Deguchi/Izutsu/Nigon – 2’09.699
15- Rosetta Motorrad39 (BMW) – Sakai/Foray/Pesek – 2’09.793
16- au&Teluru Kohara RT (Honda) – Akiyoshi/Cudlin/Okubo – 2’09.905
17- Suzuki SERT (Suzuki) – Philippe/Delhalle/Masson – 2’09.928
18- TTS & Teluru Kohara (Honda) – Nakamura/Atsumi – 2’10.206
19- Mistresa with ATS (Honda) – Nakatsuhara/Kobayashi/Sekiguchi – 2’10.233
20- Team Frontier (Honda) – Tokudome/Iwata/Koyama – 2’10.591
21- Team SRC Kawasaki (Kawasaki) – Leblanc/Lagrive/Guarnoni – 2’10.601
22- AKENO Speed WJR (Yamaha) – Inagaki/Okuno/West – 2’11.199
23- Team R2CL (Suzuki) – Morris/Wagner/Suchet – 2’11.334
24- Honda Endurance Racing (Honda) – Da Costa/Gimbert/Foray – 2’11.432
25- Team Hooters with Shota Saito (Yamaha) – Tsuda/Okuda/Shinjo – 2’11.541
26- Team Tras 135HP (BMW) – Kodama/Johnson/Katahira – 2’11.845
27- Vital Spirit Sakura (BMW) – Sano/Tsujimoto/Suzuki – 2’11.877
28- RS-ITOH & FA.COM (Kawasaki) – Okamura/Ishizuka/Higashimura – 2’11.929
29- MOTOBUM & Ishigaki Island (Honda) – Nakamura/Nakayama/Yoshihiro – 2’12.096
30- HKC & IMT Racing (Yamaha) – Hamahara/Kita/Furusawa – 2’12.100
31- Team Bolliger Switzerland (Kawasaki) – Saiger/Savary/Vizziello – 2’12.460
32- Japan Post Honda Kumamoto (Honda) – Yoshida/Kojima/Teshima – 2’12.498
33- Team MASSA-R (Yamaha) – Komuro/Mogi/Okada – 2’12.759
34- Team Honda Technical College (Honda) – Shimizu/Ooki/Kitaguchi – 2’12.782
35- Motorrad Rennsport (BMW) – Teramoto/Vallcaneras/Soma – 2’12.824
36- RED SEED Motorrad (BMW) – Fujishira/Hoshino/Ohnishi – 2’13.069
37- TOPS Life Garage KENZ (Suzuki) – Namekata/Imamura/Kumeda – 2’13.105
38- Clever Wolf Racing (Yamaha) – Tani/Saito/Plancassagne – 2’13.220
39- T Motokids ICU (Yamaha) – Nakamoto/Yoshida/Higuchi – 2’13.243
40- Team April Moto Motors Events (Suzuki) – Black/Fastre/Cudlin – 2’13.296
41- Honda Hamamatsu Escargot (Honda) – Kuboyama/Kimura/Noyori – 2’13.423
42- Sakura Project (Kawasaki) – Takahashi/Inoue/Fujisaki – 2’13.429
43- SYNCEDGE 4413 TRP (BMW) – Takeishi/Sowa/Nakamoto – 2’13.483
44- B-SQUARE Racing (Kawasaki) – Ohta/Tajiri/Matsuzaki – 2’13.525
45- Honda QCT Meiwa Racing (Honda) – Yamanaka/Ando/Nakayama – 2’13.891
46- Yamashina Kawasaki (Kawasaki) – Yamazaki/Kodera/Matsumoto – 2’14.002
47- Honda Ryokuyokai Kumamoto (Honda) – Kitaori/Inoue/Ohyama – 2’14.046
48- Motobox Kremer Racing (Yamaha) – Scherrer/Paavilainen/Miyajima – 2’14.245
49- Iwata Racing Family (Yamaha) – Sawamura/Nishimura/Miyakoshi – 2’14.545
50- KM II Z-TECH (Suzuki) – Wada/Kawase/Fukuyama – 2’14.598
51- NCXX Racing (Yamaha) – Kunimatsu/Yoshida – 2’14.630
52- Hamamatsu Team Titan (Suzuki) – Shimizu/Takeda/Iganami – 2’14.800
53- Banner Racing HKC (Ducati) – Kaneda/Dan/Saiki – 2’14.850
54- Team Etching Factory (Yamaha) – Keiraku/Nakaoka/Takemi – 2’15.001
55- TransMap Racing (Suzuki) – Ohishi/Kisamori/Oda – 2’15.055
56- DOG HOUSE (Suzuki) – Iwatani/Ozaki/Ikeda – 2’15.088
57- Team Sugai Racing Japan (Aprilia) – Sugai/Veghini/Kishida – 2’15.135
58- Honda DREAM Wakayama (Honda) – Nishinaka/Yoshimichi/Tsutsui – 2’15.150
59- Team Favorite Factory (Yamaha) – Ogura/Kirii/Tonari – 2’15.158
60- Team Will Design (Kawasaki) – Harada/Ito/Kimura – 2’15.461
61- Plus One MCRT (Kawasaki) – Imazu/Tajima/Hisazumi – 2’15.677
62- Flembbo Leader Team (Kawasaki) – Skach/Galotte/Bellucci – 2’15.836
63- RC norimono & motoLab (Honda) – Miura/Sakamoto/Samura – 2’15.940
64- Honda Blue Helmets MSC (Honda) – Mori/Shikanai/Ohtsuka – 2’16.246
65- Activelink TIO Verity (BMW) – Igarashi/Takahashi/Tsuji – 2’16.590
66- KTM FLEX Racing Team (KTM) – Furusawa/Uto/Takada – 2’16.681
67- Honda Koyokai DREAM (Honda) – Nakamura/Kurayama/Kuribayashi – 2’17.588
68- Motorrad Toyota Nagasaka (BMW) – Noda/Sasaki/Fukuda – 2’19.102
