Suzuka 8 Hours - Qualifying 2 Results

Combined Qualifying results (decided by average lap time, per team) for the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race after the second of Friday's qualifying sessions.

As with Qualifying 1, each rider in a team was assigned a colour - blue, yellow or red - and had one session on track.

Yamaha Factory Racing set the fastest average time of the day during Qualifying 1, when Katsuyuki Nakasuga also delivered what would be the best individual lap at 2m 5.922s.

Peter McLaren

26 Jul 2019

Combined Qualifying results (decided by average lap time, per team) for the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race after the second of Friday's qualifying sessions.

As with Qualifying 1, each rider in a team was assigned a colour - blue, yellow or red - and had one session on track.

Yamaha Factory Racing set the fastest average time of the day during Qualifying 1, when Katsuyuki Nakasuga also delivered what would be the best individual lap at 2m 5.922s.

Qualifying 2 again saw Nakasuga lead the blue session, with team-mate Alex Lowes then fastest of the yellow riders and Yoshimura Suzuki's Kazuki Watanabe quickest of the reds.

While the Yamaha Factory riders did not improve on their morning laps they remained fastest overall, but with their average advantage over the Kawasaki Racing Team cut to just 0.014s.

The top ten teams after Friday qualifying now go forward to Saturday's Superpole session.

Friday's track activities will end with a one-hour night free practice...

Suzuka 8 Hours - Qualifying 2 Results (Overall/Average)
Pos	Riders (Team)	Time/Gap
1	Nakasuga/Lowes/Van Der Mark (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM)	2m 6.619s
2	Rea/Haslam/Razgatlioglu (Kawasaki Racing Team Suzuka 8H)	+0.014s
3	Takahashi/Kiyonari/Bradl (Red Bull Honda)	+0.487s
4	Mizuno/Aegerter/Fores (MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO. Honda)	+0.564s
5	Kagayama/Watanabe/Guintoli (YOSHIMURA SUZUKI MOTUL RACING)	+0.568s
6	Parkes/Fritz/Canepa (YART - YAMAHA)	+0.690s
7	Hook/Foray/Di Meglio (F.C.C. TSR Honda France)	+0.859s
8	Akiyoshi/Nagashima/Hada (au . Teluru SAG RT)	+1.297s
9	Ogata/Bridewell/Ray (S-PULSE DREAM RACING . IAI)	+1.692s
10	Takahashi/Koyama/Herfoss (KYB MORIWAKI RACING)	+2.139s
11	Yanagawa/Aitchison/Iwato (KRP SANYOUKOGYO & will raise RS-ITOH)	+2.420s
12	Kamei/Hiura/Tadokoro (Honda Suzuka Racing Team)	+2.569s
13	Alt/Marino/Simeon (VRD IGOL PIERRET EXPERIENCES)	+2.668s
14	Guarnoni/Nigon/Checa (TEAM SRC KAWASAKI FRANCE)	+2.875s
15	Tsuda/Kamaruzaman/Leblanc (TK SUZUKI BLUE MAX)	+2.934s
16	Waters/Linfoot/Aoki (Moto Map SWAT)	+3.012s
17	Philippe/Masson/Black (Suzuki Endurance Racing Team)	+3.074s
18	Hoshino/Atsumi/Ishizuka (TONE RT SYNCEDGE 4413)	+3.289s
19	Zaidi/Izdihar/Nagoe (Honda Asia-Dream Racing with SHOWA)	+3.428s
20	Sekiguchi/Iwata/Kunimine (Team ATJ with JAPAN POST)	+3.497s
21	De Puniet/Hernandez/Gimbert (Honda Endurance Racing)	+3.571s
22	Tsuda/Fujita (Team BABY FACE Titanium Power Racing)	+3.594s
23	Hamahara/Ito/Sakumoto (Honda Dream RT SAKURAI HONDA)	+3.737s
24	Szkopek/Rea/Bergman (Wójcik Racing Team)	+3.910s
25	Techer/Terol/Webb (TEAM FRONTIER)	+4.218s
26	Nakatomi/Wilairot/Wongthananon (RC KOSHIEN YAMAHA Endurance ASEAN)	+4.432s
27	Foray/Da Costa/Gines (Team ERC-BMW Motorrad Endurance)	+4.539s
28	Nagao/Hill (Zaif NCXX RACING & ZENKOUKAI)	+4.826s
29	Szkopek/Tba (OMEGA MACO RACING)	+5.120s
30	Nakamoto/Nakamoto/Okubo (MobiusGreen YAOKAWASAKI)	+5.221s
31	Walraven/Buchan/Deguchi (Bolliger Team Switzerland)	+5.323s
32	Enjolras/Denis/Mackels (EVA RT WEBIKE TATi TEAM TRICKSTAR)	+5.353s
33	Nakajima/Hasegawa (Honda Hamayuukai Hamamatsu Escargot)	+5.514s
34	Teramoto/Vallcaneras (TERAMOTO@J-TRIP Racing)	+5.913s
35	Konno/Elliott (TEAM R2CL SUN CHLORELLA)	+6.062s
36	Kunimatsu/Yoshida/Nagao (Zaif NCXX RACING)	+6.332s
37	Okuda/Ito/Ashina (ARMY. GIRL Team TJC & MF Kawasaki)	+6.464s
38	Kodama/Tokudome/Nakayama (Team Kodama)	+6.779s
39	Sano/Matsumoto/Higashimura (TEAM HANSHIN RIDING SCHOOL)	+7.054s
40	Kitaori/Yoshida/Kojima (Honda Ryokuyoukai Kumamoto Racing)	+7.223s
41	Kiyosue/Nishijima/Karita (Team WITH87 Kawasaki PLAZA Fukuokahigashi)	+7.321s
42	Shinjo/Nakamura/Matsumoto (Yamashina Kawasaki & AutoRaceUBE with YIC BR)	+7.371s
43	Higuchi/Inuki (H.L.O RACING SUZUKIN)	+7.693s
44	Yoshida/Toshimichi/Kotani (icu RT MOTOKIDS NAC SANYO)	+7.747s
45	Leonov/Estment/Cretu (GSM RACING)	+7.813s
46	Dehaye/Viehmann/Ortiz (MOTOBOX KREMER & Favorite Factory)	+7.868s
47	Ooishi/Hirano/Kisamori (TransMapRacing with ACE CAFE)	+8.303s
48	Shimoda/Kuribayashi/Honda (Honda EG Racing)	+8.387s
49	Ohno/Koyama/Noda (moto cubic + Motorrad Toyota + NR)	+8.433s
50	Nishimura/Miyakoshi/Sato (IWATA RACING FAMILY)	+8.485s
51	Nakamura/Katahira/Onuki (CLUB NEXT & MOTO BUM)	+8.498s
52	Sakurayama/Nikaido/Ohkita (Sinshu activation project . Team NAGANO)	+8.785s
53	Takeda/Kambayashi/Wada (HAMAMATSU TEAM TITAN)	+8.920s
54	Okuda/Mori/Kataoka (Team de"LIGHT)	+8.942s
55	Imazu/Nishinaka/Tajima (PLUS ONE MCRT)	+9.005s
56	Toyoda/Ikeda/Shibata (NIPPON SUMATRA BIO MASSE+D REX)	+9.038s
57	Adachi/Yamauchi/Nakai (K's WORKS RACING YSS)	+9.052s
58	Sugai/Veghini (TEAM SUGAI RACING JAPAN)	+9.075s
59	Nakamura/Miyajima/Tsuji (TIO Verity)	+9.234s
60	Mori/Takahashi/Okada (Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto & Asaka)	+9.378s
61	Okazaki/Sakakibara/Nakamura (Honda Koyokai DREAM Racing Team)	+9.403s
62	Uchiyama/Suzuki/Soma (E P S Racing GarageL8 TT45)	+9.596s
63	Iwatani/Samura (DOG HOUSE)	+9.878s
64	Kuno/Watanabe/Saito (HKC & IMT Racing KUNO KOGYO)	+9.894s

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.