Suzuka 8H – Aoki-Sakai-Tokudome victory over Suzuki at the Suzuka 8H 2009 –

Victory of Aoki-Sakai-Tokudome over Suzuki at the Suzuka 8H 2009

The Japanese team of Kazuki Tokudome, Daisaku Sakai and Nobuatsu Aoki on Suzuki have just won the Suzuka 8 Hours, the fourth round of the World Endurance Championship. Sakai and Aoki (two former Grand Prix drivers) and Tokudome lead two other Japanese crews on Kawasaki and Honda by one lap.

The Japanese team of Kazuki Tokudome, Daisaku Sakai and Nobuatsu Aoki on Suzuki have just won the Suzuka Eight Hours, the fourth round of the World Endurance Championship. Sakai and Aoki (two former Grand Prix riders) and Tokudome lead two other Japanese crews on Kawasaki and Honda by one lap.

The Slovenian Igor Jerman, the Australian Steve Martin and the French Gwen Giabbani (Yamaha) finish 4th in two laps, but consolidate their domination in the general classification of the championship.

This race, in which the official Honda team did not participate for economic reasons, is the only non-compulsory event out of the six appearing on the calendar. Honda won the event last year thanks to Japanese Ryuichi Koyonari and Spaniard Carlos Checa.

2009 Suzuka 8 Hours Ranking

  1. Kazuki Tokudome / Daisaku Sakai / Nobuatsu Aoki (JPN / Suzuki): 183 laps in 8h1: 59.916
  2. Ryuji Tsuruta / Shinya Takeishi / Hitoyasu Izutsu (JPN / Kawasaki) at 1 turn
  3. Chojun Kameya / Takumi Takahashi (JPN / Honda) 1 lap
  4. Igor Jerman / Steve Martin / Gwen Hosnnsmo (SLO / AUS / FRA / Yamaha) 2 laps
  5. Osamu Deguchi / Koji Teramoto (JPN / Suzuki) at 3 laps
  6. Osamu Nishijima / Katsunori Hasegawa / Shohei Karita (JPN / Kawasaki) at 4 laps
  7. Yuta Kodama / Kazuma Tsuda (JPN / Honda) at 4 laps
  8. Satoru Iwata / Yoshiyuki Sugai / Kazuma Watanabe (JPN / Honda) at 4 laps
  9. Kosuke Akiyoshi / Shinichi Ito / Yusuke Teshima (JPN / Honda) at 5 laps
  10. Hiroki Noda / Taro Sekiguchi (JPN / Honda) at 5 laps

LE JOURNAL MOTO DU NET (with AFP)

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