Yosh Suzuki takes Suzuka 300 victory

From the Team Suzuki News Service

The Yoshimura Suzuki team of Daisaku Sakai and Nobuatsu Aoki took victory in the drama-packed Suzuki 300km Endurance race on Sunday, overcoming torrential rain showers and ever-changing track conditions.

The start of the race was delayed, but with the weather refusing to clear the decision was made to run and the teams faced 300km of wet and dry racing with totally different conditions on the east and west sides of the famous Suzuka International 5.821km track.

FCC TSR Honda rider Kosuke Akiyoshi led the early part of the race until Honda Dream RT rider Chojun Kameya took the initiative. Kameya was soon suffering with grip issues due to the wrong tire choice and the Yoshimura Suzuki pairing made their way carefully to the front on lap 28 and held it to the flag.

Race Results
1. Yoshimura Suzuki with JOMO (Suzuki GSX-R1000) Daisaku Sakai and Nobuatsu Aoki
2. MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO (Honda CBR1000RR) Takumi Takahashi and Takaaki Nakagami
3. F.C.C. TSR Honda (Honda CBR1000RR) Kosuke Akiyoshi
4. Taira Racing (Yamaha YZF-R1) Yuichi Takeda
5. Honda DREAM RT Sakurai Honda (Honda CBR1000RR) Chojun Kameya and Wayne Maxwell
6. TRICK BSTAR RACING (Kawasaki ZX-10R) Shinya Takeishi and Yoshihiro Konno
7. YAMAHA FRANCE-GMT94-IPONE (Yamaha YZF-R1) David Checa
8. YAMAHA AUSTRIA RACING TEAM (Yamaha YZF-R1) Igor German
9. Honey Bee Racing (Honda CBR1000RR) Hiroki Noda and Taro Sekiguchi
10. Team Sugai Plus One (Honda CBR1000RR) Yoshiyuki Sugai