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...
championship. In 1999, Barros and Japanese teammate Tadayuki Okada won the Suzuka8Hours endurance race riding a Honda RC45 superbike. Points system from 1969...
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...
2007, Kagayama teamed up with Kousuke Akiyoshi to win the prestigious Suzuka8Hours endurance race for Suzuki. For 2008 he switched his racing number to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
elsewhere allowed him to finish fifth in the championship. He also won the Suzuka8Hours with teammate Ryuichi Kiyonari. In 2009, Checa struggled to compete...
Zero Suzuka8Hours endurance race in Japan, partnered-up for the race with Team Pata World Supersport rider Michael van der Mark – debuting at Suzuka –...
to claim victory in the Suzuka8Hours endurance race riding a Yamaha, his first international victory. Edwards won the 8Hours two more times: in 2001...
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...
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...
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...
Kawasaki on pole position at the 1979 Suzuka8Hours, ahead of all the major factory racing teams. At the 1980 Suzuka8Hours race, the Moriwaki team of Dave...
qualified their Moriwaki Kawasaki on pole position at the prestigious 1981 Suzuka8Hours, ahead of all the major factory racing teams. Fellow racer, Graeme Crosby...
happened in the Suzuka Circuit, a motorsport race track that is operated by Mobilityland, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., located in Suzuka City in the...
2017 was carried out. Zarco tested with Suzuki in a private test at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan. Unfortunately, Suzuki prefers Alex Rins to replace Aleix...
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