This article is about the annual motorcycle endurance race. For the video game, see Suzuka 8 Hours (arcade game).
Suzuka 8 Hours
FIM Endurance World Championship
Venue
Suzuka Circuit
Corporate sponsor
Coca-Cola
First race
1978
Duration
8 hours
The Suzuka 8 hours (鈴鹿8時間耐久ロードレース, Suzuka hachi-jikan taikyū rōdo rēsu, Suzuka 8 hours Endurance Road Race) is a motorcycle endurance race held at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan each year. The race runs for eight hours consecutively and entrants are composed of two or more riders who alternate during pitstops.
The Suzuka International Racing Course (鈴鹿国際レーシングコース, Suzuka Kokusai Rēsingu Kōsu), a.k.a “Suzuka Circuit” (鈴鹿サーキット, Suzuka Sākitto), is a 5.807 km (3...
and 2002 Suzuka8Hours winner. He died as a result of injuries sustained after a crash during the 2003 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit...
he raced with Kiyonari and won a three-hour endurance race, and the pair was then entered for the Suzuka8-Hour race on a factory Honda machine. Plans...
championship. In 1999, Barros and Japanese teammate Tadayuki Okada won the Suzuka8Hours endurance race riding a Honda RC45 superbike. Points system from 1969...
2020 to Toprak Razgatlioglu in August 2019. He won 2016, 2017 and 2018 Suzuka8Hours and was the 2013 title holder of the British Superbike Championship...
the four so-called "classics": 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Liège (held in Spa-Francorchamps), 8Hours Of Suzuka, and the Bol d'Or (held mostly on...
JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship. He has won the Suzuka8Hours four times (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) and the JSB1000 championship title...
Zero Suzuka8Hours endurance race in Japan, partnered-up for the race with Team Pata World Supersport rider Michael van der Mark – debuting at Suzuka –...
2007, Kagayama teamed up with Kousuke Akiyoshi to win the prestigious Suzuka8Hours endurance race for Suzuki. For 2008 he switched his racing number to...
2012 European Superstock 600 champion. In 2013 and 2014 he won the Suzuka8Hours with Takumi Takahashi and Leon Haslam in the Endurance FIM World Championship...
to claim victory in the Suzuka8Hours endurance race riding a Yamaha, his first international victory. Edwards won the 8Hours two more times: in 2001...
elsewhere allowed him to finish fifth in the championship. He also won the Suzuka8Hours with teammate Ryuichi Kiyonari. In 2009, Checa struggled to compete...
decided to return to Japan and rejoin the Harc-Pro team, He won the Suzuka8Hours in 2010 and competing the Japanese ST600 championship aboard a Honda...
qualified their Moriwaki Kawasaki on pole position at the prestigious 1981 Suzuka8Hours, ahead of all the major factory racing teams. Fellow racer, Graeme Crosby...
the regular rider. Aegerter has previously competed for Suzuki in the Suzuka8Hours endurance race, when the Swiss racer was on the podium twice. He competed...
Championship, with a shortage of big results, other than 9th place in the 2000 Suzuka8Hours race. In 2002, Kiyonari switched to the All-Japan ST600 championship...
their Moriwaki-Kawasaki Z1000 on pole position at the prestigious 1981 Suzuka8Hours, ahead of all the major factory racing teams. Also in 1981, Eddie Lawson...
is the only person to have won the Daytona 200, the Imola 200, the Suzuka8Hours endurance race, and the Isle of Man TT. After his international motorcycle...
race was first held in 1966 as the Suzuka 1000km. In 2018, the event was reformatted and renamed to the Suzuka 10 Hours and became part of the SRO Intercontinental...
last satellite rider to win the top-class title to date) and the 8Hours of Suzuka with Honda in 2001. He also won MotoGP World Championships with the...
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