Yoshimura Suzuki's Takuya Tsuda, Nobu Aoki and Josh Brookes finished second in today's Suzuka 8-Hour World Endurance Championship race in Japan as Team Kagayama, which included former World 500cc GP Champion Kevin Schwantz, Yukio Kagayama and Nori Haga, put their GSX-R1000 on the third step of the podium.

And making it three Suzuki GSX-R1000s in the top four of the race - won by Musashi RT HARC Pro's Takumi Takahashi, Leon Haslam and young 20-year-old Dutchman Michael Van Der Mark - was reigning World Endurance Champions Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT) with Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Julien Da Costa taking the lead in the series after two rounds.


Full report, results and photos to follow...

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