02TEAM SUZUKI RACING NEwSSuzuki Legends Wes Cooley (left) and Graeme Crosby (right) are joined by Yoshimura’s Fujio Yoshimura.Suzuki Legend and former World 500cc GP Champion and ambassador Kevin Schwantz talks with SERT’s Vincent Philippe during the race.The start of the 40th Anniversary Coca Cola Suzuka 8-Hour race where Team KAGAYAMA’s # 71 Hafizh Syahrin took fourth position on the opening lap.The Suzuka 8-Hour race is one of Japan’s most-iconic races and one that Suzuki has competed-in from the start in 1978 when American riders Baldwin raced to victory in the inaugural event aboard their Yoshimura GS1000.was 2007 when Suzuki topped the podium again, this time with Yoshimura Suzuki’s Japanese duo of Yukio Kagayama and Kousuke Akiyoshi aboard the GSX-R1000 Superbike. Victory followed in 2009 with Nobuatsu Aoki, Daisaku Sakai and Kazuki Tokudome and since then, there have been several-more podium successes.Wes Cooley and Two years later, Cooley, partnered with New Zealander Graeme Crosby, again on the Suzuki GS1000, took victory for the Yoshimura Team. Then, in 1983, the HB Suzuki France Team - Hervé Richard Hubin – took another win at the prestigious event.With several podiums along the way, it For 2017, Former Suzuki 2017 Issue #2 - AutumnMike Moineau and World Grand Prix Champion Kevin Schwantz joined the event along with Cooley and Crosby and lapped the famous circuit in a ‘Legends Celebration’ on the new 2017 production GSX-R1000 and machines from the past.Championship race at Suzuka Circuit in Japan at the end of July. Suzuki has always had a strong presence in the event and for the final round of the 2016-2017 series, the 40th Anniversary race, brought some famous Suzuki riders to the celebration. Highlights and behind the scenes at the Suzuka 8-Hour Endurance world Images by Team Suzuki photographers Goichi Honda and david Reygondeau.POSTCARdS FROM...
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