Suzuka 8 Hours | Nagashima defeats Rea as Honda gets better of Kawasaki for pole
FULL Su🦩zuka 8 Hours Q♍ualifying Results and Starting Order
Dubbed as something of a grudge match on hom🐎e soil between Honda and Kawasaki’s flagship factory WorldSBK efforts, while Team Green has the advantage on the international stage, a stunning series of laps on Friday by Nagashima gave Honda a huge margin on the timesheets.
Even so, with Kawasaki’s most potent weapon in Jonathan Rea unable to show his pace on Friday due to rain occurring in both of his qualifying segments, it was hoped the six-time Wor๊ldSBK Champion coꦗuld fight back in Saturday’s Top 10 Trial shootout.
However, while Rea would greatly improve KRT’s performance with a 2m 05.149secs lap, it was still no answeꦗr to Nagashima, who - having become the first Superbike rider to break into the 2m 04s bracket on Frওiday - did it once again with a 2m 04.934secs.
As such, Nagashima - in his first international racing appea💝rance since quitting Moto2 at the end of the 2020 season - two-time Suzuka 8 Hours winner Takumi Takahashi and ex-MotoGP rider Iker Lecuona will get underway from pole, with Rea, Leon Haslam and Alex Lowes getting away from second.
Having split the Honda and Kawasaki pair on Friday, YART slipped to third position as the highest-placed Endurance World Championship entry. The Niccolo Canepa, Marvin Fritz and Karel Hanika 🍸on the YART are Yamaha’s main representatives this year after Yamaha Factory Racing turned down the chance to ไrace, reportedly in protest at having its win in 2019 controversially awarded to KRT.
FCC TSR Honda will get away from fourth but its day was marred by a big accident for Gino Rea in the preceding FP2 session, an incident that has seen 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the 🅘Briton taken to hospital by helicopter.
Of the domestic JSB1000 entries, it was SDG Honda th𝓀at took over as the best placed homegrown effort in fifth, ahead of the sister Sakurai Honda, Astemo Honda and Sofukai Honda teams in sixth, seventh and eighth respectively.
Sixth overnight after Q2, BMW slipped to ninth on the timesheets when it mattered with its trio of Jeremy Guarnoni, Ilya Mikhalchik and Markus Reiterberger, while the tenth and final spot was assumed by the EVA 01♏ Kawasaki containing MotoE rider Hikari Okubo.
