Besides the MotoGP race at Laguna Seca race, the famous Suzuka 8 Hours race also took place this weekend and it was the HARC-PRO team with Takumi Takahashi, Ryuichi Kiyonari and 17 year old Takaaki Nakagami as the third rider who won the 33rd edition of this prestigious endurance race.

Takumi Takahashi, leader of the All Japan Superbike and Ryuichi Kiyonari (3rd win after 2005 and 2008 with HRC) conducted the race with a race pace around 2′09″ and taking advantage of all the incredible errors committed by the other teams.

Second place went to the Keihin Kohara Racing Team on a Honda with former MotoGP and WSBK rider Makoto Tamada and Shinichi Itoh.

The Yoshimura Suzuki of Daisaku Sakai and Yukio Kagayama who had grabbed the pole position, was stopped by two crashes by Sakai (we saw him in action in WSBK round at Monza) and finished the race in sixth place ,while race favourites F.C.C. TSR Honda with WSBK rider Jonathan Rea and Honda official test rider Kousuke Akiyoshi (who subbed for Hiroshi Aoyama in MotoGP) and Moto2 rider Yuki Takahashi went through two ride through penalities after Akiyoshi passed during the yellow flag regime twice and then Rea crashed getting back on track in 42nd position, four laps behind the leaders, before coming back with the best race lap, in 2’08.705 and his team finishing third.

Suzuki Faro Plot Panthera, earned fourth place, ahead of the Honda Team Plus One who currently leads Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship.

Coca Cola Zero Suzuka 8 hours 2010 - Final Results

01- MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kiyonari/Nakagami/Takahashi – 215 laps
02- Keihin Kohara Racing Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – Itoh/Tamada
03- F.C.C. TSR Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – Akiyoshi/Rea/Takahashi
04- Plot Faro Panthera – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Deguchi/Yasuda/Kodama
05- Team Plus One – Honda CBR 1000RR – Iwata/Teshima
06- Yoshimura Suzuki with Eneos – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Sakai/Aoki/Kagayama
07- Teloru HoneyBee Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Noda/Sekiguchi
08- BEET Racing – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Takahashi/Hatano/Nishijima
09- Bolliger Team Switzerland – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Saiger/Muff/Stamm
10- Honda Escargot & PGR & Sayama – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kuboyama/Nakatsuhara
11- Honda Suzuka Racing Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – Nakamura/Akiya
12- Motobum and Ishigaki Island – Honda CBR 1000RR – Takahashi/Oki/Shimizu
13- RS-Itoh & Asia – Kawasaki ZX 10R – Higashimura/Iwasaki/Ioda
14- Team Frontier Clever-Wolf Racing – Yamaha YZF R1 – Teramoto/Nakai/Fukami
15- Evangelion RT Test Type-01 Trick Star – Kawasaki ZX 10R – Takeishi/Serizawa/Konno
16- Yamaha Austria Racing Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – Jerman/Martin/Giabbani
17- Team NAP’S – Honda CBR 1000RR – Sato/Igarashi/Shimizu
18- Tras & G-Tribe+8810R – BMW S1000RR – Toda/Takada/Saito
19- Confia H.M.F. Like a wind – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – Takamiya/Takahashi/Suma
20- Honda QCT Q-Youkai Meiwa – Honda CBR 1000RR – Ando/Noyori/Soh
21- Honda Dream RT Wakayama Honda CBR 1000RR – Nishinaka/Soma/Yasutomi
22- Yamashina Kawasaki & Business Ralliart – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Mizusawa/Yamasaki/Noda
23- Team MIR Z-Tech – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Okuda/Yoshida/Mizutani
24- Dogfish O-Tec Suzuka Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Ouchida/Yagi/Watanabe
25- Honda Koyokai Dream Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Nakamura/Ebinuma
26- Crown Keibihosyou Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Hamaguchi/Kitaguchi/Tani
27- Winner Z-Tech – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Namekata/Kunimatsu
28- WestPower – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Tsuda/Tani/Tanaka
29- Suzuka Community Racing Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – Matsui/Shimoji
30- Honda Ryokuyokai Kumamoto Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Yoshida/Iida/Kitaori
31- Moto Kids/Kawauso – Yamaha YZF-R1 – Kayahara/Higuchi/Nakao
32- Aprilia D.D.BOYS with A-STYLE – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – Tsuda/Gori
33- Mito Moto & freaks – Honda CBR 1000RR – Takano/Kobayashi/Okada
34- Bull Docker Halumoto – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – Mogi/Tanaka
35- Honda Dream RT Sakurai Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kameya/Maxwell
36- Team Honda Technical College – Honda CBR 1000RR – Furusawa/Hamaguchi
37- Honda EG Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Kuribayashi/Hondo/Fujishima

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