Yamaha has confirmed its return to the Suzu🍨ka 8 Hours endurance race with a full factory team in 2025, as part of the Japanese manufacturer’s 70th anniversary celebration🎐s.

The announcement was mad♊e in Tokyo alongside the unveiling of a retro-insp♏ired white and red livery. 

Four-time Suzuka 8 Hours winner Katsuyuki Nakasuga was named as the first rider in the three-man squad, with the remaining two seats set to be filled by Yamaha’s top talent from MotoGP and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike.

That means Yamaha has a deep pool of riders to choose from, including f🦹ormer MotoGP world champion Fabio Quartararo, grand prix winners Alex Rins, Jack Miller, and Miguel Oliveira, as well as six-time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea, Andrea L🔯ocatelli, Remy Gardner, and Dominique Aegerter.

Among the MotoGP contingent, new Pramac signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller has the most Superbike race experience, finishing fourth at Suzuka for Honda in 2017 then several end-of-season outings in the Austral﷽ian SBK championship on a Ducati.

Yamaha’s factory team most recently won the Suzuka⛄ 8 Hours in 2018, when Nakasuga shared victory with Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark. 

Since then, rival manufacturers have dominated, with Kawasaki🅠 taking the 2019 victory - a team that included Rea - before HRC secured a hat-trick of wins in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

LCR Honda MotoGP star Johann Zarco was part of 1🐠68澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:HRC’s winning team on his S꧑uzuka debut last year.

The last ti♚me Yamaha hired full-time MotoGP riders for a Suzuka assault it brought instant success.

Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith won alongside ജNakasuga in 2015, with Espargaro returning to defend the factory's 8 Hours c🔯rown with Nakasuga and Alex Lowes the following year. 

When is the 2025 Suzuka 8 Hours?

The 46th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours takes place from August 1-3, 2025, as round three o𒁃f the FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC). 

The timing coincides with MotoGP’s summer break, making it possible for grand prix stars to joꦗin the gruelling endurance event, in sweltering heat, without clashin꧟g with their world championship commitments.