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Suzuka 8 Hours: Top 10 grid positions
1. Espargaro*/Nakasuga/B. Smith Yamaha Factory #21 2m 6.000s
2. Watanabe*/Yanagawa/Yudhistira Team Green #87 2m 6.287s
3. Stoner*/Takahashi/VD Mark Musashi Honda #634 2m 6.335s
4. Tsuda*/Lowes/Waters Yoshimura Suzuki #12 2m 6.516s
5. Kagayama*/Kiyonari/Haga Team Kagayama #17 2m 7.990s
6. Aegerter*/K. Smith/Hook FCC TSR Honda #778 2m 8.076s
7. Yamaguchi*/Wilairot/Elias Toho with Moriwaki #104 2m 8.382s
8. Nigon*/Deguchi/Izutsu Trickstar Kawasaki #01 2m 8.950s
9. Uramoto*/O'Halloran/Herfoss Sakuri Honda #71 2m 9.409s
10. Ogata*/Aoki/Konno Motomap Suzuki #32 2m 11.019s
*Set the team's fastest lap in Superpole.

Superpole lap time by each rider
1. Espargaro Yamaha Factory #21 2m 6.000s
2. Nakasuga Yamaha Factory #21 2m 6.059s
3. Watanabe Team Green #87 2m 6.287s
4. Stoner Musashi Honda #634 2m 6.335s
5. Tsuda Yoshimura Suzuki #12 2m 6.516s
6. Lowes Yoshimura Suzuki #12 2m 7.144s
7. Takashashi Musashi Honda #634 2m 7.697s
8. Kagayama Team Kagayama #17 2m 7.990s
9. Aegerter FCC TSR Honda #778 2m 8.076s
10. Yamaguchi Toho with Moriwaki #104 2m 8.382s
11. Hook FCC TSR Honda #778 2m 8.472s
12. Kiyonari Team Kagayama #17 2m 8.806s
13. Nigon Trickstar Kawasaki #01 2m 8.950s
14. Yanagawa Team Green #87 2m 9.006s
15. Uramoto Sakuri Honda #71 2m 9.409s
16. Wilairot Toho with Moriwaki #104 2m 9.877s
17. O'Halloran Sakuri Honda #71 2m 10.391s
18. Deguchi Trickstar Kawasaki #01 2m 10.771s
19. Ogata Motomap Suzuki #32 2m 11.019s
20. Aoki Motomap Suzuki #32 2m 11.681s

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Yamaha are throwing a lot of weight behind there factory teams and seems to be paying dividends.

Stoner fastest Honda. Pretty impressive for someone with no experience on a sbk and hasn't raced for years.

The boy still has it !

I thought Stoner had been testing for Honda since he left MotoGP?

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I do hope Stoner is OK. No idea what happened, very strange looking crash.

He hasn't ridden a production class racer like a WSBK spec bike which is hugely different to a Motogp prototype on Bridgestones was the point.

Not seen anything on the crash was it a big one ? Is the team out of the event ?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s51TBrRkLi0[/video]

Looks an issue with the front wheel. It seems to wobble as he comes out of that corner.

There seemed to be a depression there and he changed line, running wide and eventually ran off track. It was almost like the front was going away and he had to stand it back up mid corner.

Glad to see his missus hasn't lost it....

She did look good

I see the Ducati went pop

Honda are saying it was a mechanical fault.

It looked like either he went in way too hot or the front had massive understeer.

Edit, after looking at it several times it looks like the dip caused the understeer, which I find odd as Stoner must have done hundreds of laps of Suzuka as it's Honda's own track, so he must have known the dip was there?

Agree the dip looked to be what started it all but like Deegee says Stoner must have known it was there.

Broken right shoulder blade and left tibia according to reports.

If i remember right, the reason Motogp stopped using Suzuka was because it was considered that the barriers were too close to the track in too many places.

duke63 wrote:If i remember right, the reason Motogp stopped using Suzuka was because it was considered that the barriers were too close to the track in too many places.

I think it was after Darijiro Kato went into the barrier and tragically lost his live. Great circuit but very little run off and too much armco.

The word from Too Tall Tel on the commentary was the throttle stuff open, which would make it understeer then maybe he headeded for the grass and bit a handful of front brake as to get off the thing?

Blade wrote:

duke63 wrote:If i remember right, the reason Motogp stopped using Suzuka was because it was considered that the barriers were too close to the track in too many places.

I think it was after Darijiro Kato went into the barrier and tragically lost his live. Great circuit but very little run off and too much armco.

Only on page 2 of "Ring of Fire" but it's opens with that incident, and you're dead right mate.

Good book. Enjoy it Kiwi.