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Checa and Kiyonari take close second for Honda at Suzuka 300km race
09 giugno 2008
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Checa had set second best time of 2’08”240 during the timed practice which took place on Saturday. Yoshimura Suzuki men, Kosuke Akiyoshi and Yukio Kagayama snatching pole position, Akiyoshi marking a lap time of 2m 08.052s. The 2008 CBR1000RRW the Honda teams raced at Suzuka is completely new, both engine and chassis. Not all the Honda teams are completely comfortable with the machine set-up but their aim was to gather as much data as possible from the 300km race in preparation for the coming Suzuka 8 Hours race on July 27. As Michelin wished to concentrate on MotoGP, DREAM Honda Racing Team #11 of Checa and Kiyonari used Bridgestone tyres while the #33 DREAM Honda Racing Team of Rae and Teshima ran Dunlop for today’s race. At 13:00, the riders made the traditional Le Mans style start. Kiyonari made a good but at turn three a multiple crash involving eight riders, Rae, who won the corresponding race last season, and fellow Honda rider Leon Haslam among them, brought out the red flag. Haslam, who was accompanied by his father Ron, was sidelined for the day and didn’t have a chance to show his riding skill at Suzuka this time. The delayed start took place at 13:50 and it was Kiyo who again made a good start followed by the two Yoshimura Suzuki’s of #12 Daisaku Sakai and #34 Kosuke Akiyoshi. Akiyoshi passed both Kiyonari and Sakai on lap four and from then on led the field until the rider change over. Kiyonari battled with Sakai for second place till the end of his stint. Akiyoshi passed his Yoshimura machine to Norio Kagayama and Kiyonari the CBR1000RRW to Carlos Checa. At that time the difference between the two was more than 15 seconds. From that point on Checa mounted a superb fight back charge, lapping in the 2m 09s bracket continuously. It looked like the battle between the top two would be decided at the finish line, but the inevitable back markers played a telling roll in the proceedings hampering Checa’s progress in the later stages denying the Spaniard the potential opportunity of a race victory. Checa crossed the finish line a mere 2.336 seconds down on Kagayama. Third place went to the Yoshimura of Daisaku Sakai and Atsushi Watanabe. Yamaha rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga, who rode the race on his own, finished fourth, with the DREAM Honda Racing Team pairing of Rea and Teshima fifth. Sixth place went to the Team Green Kawasaki of Akira Yanagawa with the F.C.C. TSR CBR1000RR pairing of Shinichi Ito and Satoshi Tsujimura finishing seventh. Tatsuya Yamaguchi and Cal Crutchlow raced to eighth for Moriwaki MOTUL Racing. The Sakurai Honda of Kazuma Tsuda took ninth place with Yuji Sato and Yuichi Takeda rounding out the top ten finishers, both teams one lap down. |
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