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2005 Team Yoshiharu Suzuka 8 Hours Finished 6th!!
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Joshu Brookes Talks Suzuka
01/08/05
Josh Brookes has finished an impressive sixth place in the highly touted
Suzuka Eight Hour endurance race held in Japan last weekend.
Riding for Team Yoshiharu Yokkaichi on board a Honda CBR1000RR, Brookes and his team mate Yoshiyuki Sugai completed 197 laps of the nearly 6 kilometre long circuit.
Josh described his ride as “a mega experience” despite the intense humidity and the thunderstorm that drenched the circuit in the third and fourth hours of the race.
“I wasn’t real comfortable in the rain, and my team mate probably copped the worst of it rather than me, but the race was something else,” Brookes said.
“It was quite different to riding two or three sprint races at home – the stints were long at about an hour each, and the humidity makes things very difficult.”
“The heat was the worst thing – and it was worse in the lead-up to the event rather than actually during the race, because the rain at least cooled things down a bit. You’re just sweating profusely the whole time and after about five laps it really starts to take it out of you.”
“The sweat just runs off your eyebrows down into your eyes. You can’t get enough breeze through your helmet to help and you get dehydrated so it’s easy to cramp up. I think to win here you’d need to prepare physically for six or eight months beforehand and be here for a fair while in Suzuka to acclimatise.”
“I’m pleased with the result though. My lap times were quite consistent and very comparable with those of Sugai who has raced in this event plenty of times.”
“To win a race like this, you have to push flat-out every lap even though it is an endurance event. Lots of guys were crashing but we were consistent and determined to make it to the end – which is almost a victory in itself.”
“On the one hand you gain speed as the fuel load goes down, but your tyres are going off towards the end of the stint, so it counter-balances.”
“It’s an unbelievable event and I’d love to do it again,”
he said.
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2005 CBR1000RR
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2005 Suzuka 300 Km on 12 June
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Team crew pit work
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#18 Honda CBR1000RR
Rider: Yoshiyuki Sugai / Joshua Brookes (#25 Austaralia Honda)
Bike 1 #18 Hondar CBR1000RR: 1st rider Y.Sugai / 2nd rider Yamamoto : Finished 6th
Qualify 20th then Super pole came 18th!!
Bike 2 #20 Honda CBR954RR: 1st rider R.Bugden / 2nd rider Y.Yamakawa : Finished 41st
Qualify 49th
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"Few Australian rider's get the opportunity to try their abilities on an international level, and through the backing of K1 Racing and RACERSDEN.COM I had the chance to do so at the Suzuka Eight Hour Endurance Race. It was an unique and amazing experience made possible through my sponsors, Team Yoshiharu and their team sponsors,managers, team mechanics and everyone involved behind the scenes to make it possible. In particular I'd like to express my thanks to Yoshiharu and his family for their hospitality and generosity during my stay in Japan. I'd also like to congratulate the team on their result, which is also due to the hard work and commitment of everyone involved with Team Yoshiharu. " Left photo from last year when he was 3rd rider on CBR954! Click here to visit robs news page on the 2004 Suzuka 8 Hour. |
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This is '04 Suzuka 300Km Race in May. X GP Rider Y.Sugai finished 12 in 62 entry!! 1st HRC CBR1000RR 2nd Kenz GSX-R1000 3rd Honda CBR1000RR |
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2003 TEAM YOSHIHARU completed strongly at Suzuka 8 hours.
Thanks to our great sponsors:BRIDGESTONE - YOKKAICHI CITY - BANDIT - RECERSDEN.COM
2003
Team information photo in Japanese
SPONSOR:BRIDGESTONE,YOKKAICHI CITY,BANDIT(TYRE WARMERS),racersden.com
RIDERS: M.IZUMI(JP),O.NISHIJIMA(JP),ROBERT BUGDEN(AU)
BIKE: HONDA CBR954RR
(#18) 
Media Release
Tuesday 29th July 2003
Preparation
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Wednesday 30th
Practice : Photo A. . . . .Photo
B . . . . . Photo C
Thursday
Practice
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Friday : Qualifying come 35th(Izumi 2'14"3,Nishijima 2'12"6,Bugden
2'18"4)
Night
practice: Photo A. . . . .Photo
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Timed
Practice : Photo A .. . . . . .Photo
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Saturday : Only top 20 can go super pole!!
Qualifing : Photo A .. . . . . .Photo B .
Sunday Race 3rd August : 2003 Finished 19th over all,7th in JSB class
Photo A .Photo B. . . . .. . . . . . . .
Photo Gallery
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Robert Bugden (2 times Australian Xtreme private champion) "Few Australian rider's get the oppurtunity to prove their abilities on an international level, and through the backing of K1 Racing and Racersden I had the chance to do so at the Susuka Eight Hour Endurance Race. It was an unique and amazing experience made possible through my sponsors, Team Yoshiharu and their team sponsers,managers, team mechanics and everyone involved behind the scenes to make it possible. In particular I'd like to express my thanks to Yoshiharu and his family for their hospitality and generosity during my stay in Japan. I'd also like to congratulate the team on their result, which is also due to the hard work and commitment of everyone involved with Team Yoshiharu. "
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About Team Yoshiharu's history
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Team History(since 1987)
| Yera | Event Race | Qualify(Entry's) | Race | Machine | Rider |
| 1987 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 41st(110) | 24th | Honda VFR750 | N.Iobe/N.Kawase |
| 1988 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 36th(105) | 37th | Honda RC30 | G.Satou/R.Horikawa |
| 1989 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 27th(103) | 36th | Honda RC30 | M.Player/G.Satou |
| 1990 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 45th(94) | 28th | Honda RC30 | S.Backmaster/S.Fukushima |
| 1991 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 41st(93) | 39th | Honda RC30 | Y.Takeda/T.Ishiguro |
| 1992 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 47th(96) | 18th | Honda RC30 | S.Crafar(NZ)/J.Suzuki |
| 1993 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | ??(85) | 19th | Honda RC30 | J.Reynolds(GB)/B.Bonule(F) |
| 1994 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 44th(??) | 30th | Honda RC45 | D.??/T.Kunimatsu |
| 1995 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 28th(??) | DNF | Honda RC45 | T.Kunimatsu/N.Nakai |
| 1996 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | ??(72) | 23rd | Honda RC45 | J.Mateole(F)/N.Nakai |
| 1997 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | ??(70) | ?? | Honda RC45 | M.Yamanaka/R.Sawada |
| 1998 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | ??(78) | 21st | Honda CBR900RR | T.Oshima/H.Yoshida |
| Motegi 7h Endurance | 4th(100) | 3rd | Honda RC45 | T.Aragaki/T.Oshima/Kishida | |
| 1999 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 54th(??) | 43rd | Honda CBR900RR | M.Takahashi/H.Yoshida |
| Motegi 7h Endurance | 5th(174) | DNF | Honda RC45 | T.Oshima/Kishida | |
| Motegi 7h Endurance | 11th(174) | DNF | Honda CBR900RR | Y.Sugai/H.Yoshida | |
| 2000 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 59th(??) | 40th | Honda CBR900RR | S.Harris(NZ)/D.Beta(DM) |
| Motegi 7h Endurance | 44th | DNF | Honda CBR900RR | Y.Yamakawa/N.Nakatsuhara | |
| 2001 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 39th(??) | DNF | Honda CBR929RR | Y.Sugai/T.Kimura |
| Suzuka 4h Endurance | Win | Honda CBR600f4i | Y.Yamakawa/H.Yoshida | ||
| 2002 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 39th(??) | 15th(JSB Class 1st) | Honda CBR954RR | Y.Sugai/T.Kawakami |
| Suzuka 4h Endurance | 11th | Honda CBR600f4i | T.Nakai/T.Satou | ||
| 2003 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 35th() | 19th(JSB-6th) | Honda CBR954RR | M.Izumi/O.Nishijima/Robert Bugden(AU) |
| Suzuka 8h Endurance | 34th() | DNF | Honda CBR954RR | Abe/Yamakawa | |
| Suzuka 4h Endurance | Honda CBR600f4i |
Nakanishi/ |
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| 2004 | Suzuka 8h Endurance | 20th S.Pole 18th | 6th{JSB-4th) | Honda CBR1000RR | Y.Sugai / T.Yamamoto |
| 49th | 41st (XX-F5th) | Honda CBR954RR | Robert Bugden(AU) / Y.Yamakawa | ||
| 2005 | Suzuka 8h Endurance |
Best 10 !
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Honda 05 CBR1000RR | Y.Sugai (JP) / Joshua.Brookes(AU) | |
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Overseas Race History
| Yera | Event Race | Qualify(Entry's) | Race | Machine | Rider |
| 1992 | Indonesia Endurance | 5th | Honda RC30 | Noboru.Miura/Shigeharu.Ootsuka | |
| Indonesia GP | 5th | Honda RC30 | Noboru.Miura | ||
| 2002 | Isle of Man | 4th | Honda CBR400RR | David.Naigale | |
| 2003 | Isle of Man | Did not entry |
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Up Date 10/Jan/2005 by Kazu Kuroda |
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