Asian Road Racing Championship Round 3 was held at Suzuka circuit, Mie Prefecture. Asian Dream Cup was held as Asian Dream Endurance Race, one of Suzuka Sunday Road Race on Sunday. Due to this, the time schedule for Super Sport 600 was changed to have Race 1 on Saturday, Race 2 on Sunday.
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Pole position was Yuki Takahashi (MuSASHi Boon Siew Honda Racing) in SS600. Teammate Zamri Baba canceled to race this time after the crash in Indonesian Round. Race 1 was difficult condition with intermittently raining. The hole shot was Noriyuki Haga (Suzuki) but Takahashi passed him immediately to take the lead. He started to run away before falling down on the wet patch at the Opposite-Bank. Managed to restart but returned to the pit directly to retire. Yuki Ito (Yamaha) got the victory, Tomoyoshi Koyama (T.Pro Yuzy Honda NTS) won the intense battle for second and Haga came in third.
Haga got hole shot again in Race 2. Yuki Takahashi came in front at S-Curve before Ito got the lead at 130R and was followed by Takahashi, Makoto Inagaki(Yamaha), Haga and Koyama. Among them, the top 3 of Ito, Takahashi and Inagaki started to their pace up and run away, but Koyama managed to catch up after passing Haga. On lap 8, Takahashi passed Ito at 130R and kept that position until the flag to take victory. Koyama got past Ito on the last lap to take second. Ito came third.
Asian dream Cup (ADC) was held as one of the Suzuka Sunday Road Race, and was carried out two hours endurance. 10 teams of ADC riders participated, two riders in 1 team. Championship points was given depends on the qualifying position this time. Seiji Maeda / Yoshiharu Okada pair (Hybrid MarutomiAuto with TTS Racing Team) got pole position. Hiroki Nakamura / Yusuke Nakamura pair came 4th fastest as the top ADC. The race was started by traditional Le Man type start at 10:30. There were lots of falls in the early laps in the wet condition before drying the track later. Hole shot was Haruki Noguchi/Eiki Watanabe（56RACING）, Syou Hasegawa/Norihiko Murata（CLUBY’s＆co）came in front on lap 3. Maeda / Okada took the lead after pit-in, feeding gas and changing riders.
Maeda / Okada kept the lead until the flag to take victory, followed by Seiji Yasutomi/Kouji Fukui（360MotorSport+SAMURAI FACTORY）tightly in second. Naoki Kubo/Kouji Nishizawa（kurodaya）won the hard third battle and joined on the podium. Nakamura / Nakamura pair battled for fifth as top ADC team. Even though falling down at Chicane on the last lap, they managed to restart and got seventh to keep the top ADC position.
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SS600 Race Result: DNF / 1st Championship position: 2nd“I made a big mistake in Race 1, I put too much pressure on myself because I absolutely wanted to win for Zamri who could not race today and for the team who despondent for that. I had both feelings of wanting to win and cannot crash any more, I was able to control these feelings and won! I will aim to win again in the next round.”Tomoyoshi Koyama: T.Pro Yuzy Honda
SS600 Race Result: 2nd / 2nd Championship position: 1st“I don’t hate rain, but it was like riding on ice in the qualifying. We had made big change in the settings before the race and that went well. In Race 2, Takahashi was too strong. I climbed to second place but could not past him. I am glad to make Honda’s 1-2 finish. I will think many ways and plan a strategy to win in the next round.”Hiroki Nakamura:
Asia Dream Cup Race Result: 7th Championship position: 3rd“Suzuka is my home course, because I had studied at the Suzuka Racing School. I had nothings to worry about the track, but I was over cautious and was late in the first half of the race after the crash in the warm up run. Although it was difficult wet condition, I was able to catch up in the last half of the race. To be a champion is my goal. I will aim the top ranking in the remaining rounds.”Yusuke Nakamura:
Asia Dream Cup Race Result: 7th Championship position: 2nd“This is the third opportunity for me to ride Suzuka race after taking the license last year. After the riders’ change, it started to rain strongly and the track was very slippery. So I controlled the pace first and paced up again after the condition settled. On the last lap, I crashed during battling hard for raising up the position as many as possible. But it was good to return to the course. I will continue to aiming to be a champion in the future.”Shinya Nakano:
“The goal was having experience to make team with two riders from same country because this was an endurance race. Each team collaborated in pit work, it was unaccustomed situation for them, the track condition was difficult and there were a lot of falls, I think they learned a lot of things from this experience. It was good that we could race safely without a major injuries to our riders.”
Hiroki Nakamura/Yusuke Nakamura, Woraphod Niamsakhonsakul/Muklada Sarapuech, Yogha Dio Syachputra/Md. FebriansyahzoomHiroki Nakamura/Yusuke Nakamura, Woraphod Niamsakhonsakul/Muklada Sarapuech, Yogha Dio Syachputra/Md. Febriansyah
2015 Asia Road Racing Championship
Round 03: Suzuka – Japan
Supersports 600cc - Race 1 Results
Rank
Rider (Team)
1 Yuki Ito(PETRONAS Hong Leong Yamaha/YAMAHA)
2 Tomoyoshi Koyama(T.Pro Yuzy Honda/Honda)
3 Noriyuki Haga(Team Kagayama Suzuki ASIA/SUZUKI)
4 Dimas Ekky Pratama(Astra Honda Racing/Honda)
5 Hazlanshah Md Noor(BikeART Racing Kawasaki/KAWASAKI)
6 Mark Aitchison(Yamaha Finson Racing/YAMAHA)
8 Hikari Okubo(Y ! Mobile & Kohara RT/Honda)
14 Atsushi Kawaguchi(Hamamatsu ESCARGOT/Honda)
DNF Taiga Hada(T.Pro Yuzy Honda/Honda)
DNF Yuki Takahashi(MuSASHi Boon Siew Honda Racing/Honda)
DNF Ratthapong Wilairot(A.P. Honda Thailand/Honda)
DNF Suhathai Chaemsup(Thai Honda Racing/Honda)
DNS Md Akmal Hisyam(T.Pro Yuzy Honda/Honda)
Supersports 600cc - Race 2 Results
Rank
Rider (Team)
1 Yuki Takahashi(MuSASHi Boon Siew Honda Racing/Honda)
2 Tomoyoshi Koyama(T.Pro Yuzy Honda/Honda)
3 Yuki Ito(PETRONAS Hong Leong Yamaha/YAMAHA)
4 Makoto Inagaki(YellowCorn Akeno Speed Racing/YAMAHA)
5 Noriyuki Haga(Team Kagayama Suzuki ASIA/SUZUKI)
6 Mark Aitchison(YellowCorn Akeno Speed Racing/YAMAHA)
7 Dimas Ekky Pratama(Astra Honda Racing/Honda)
11 Suhathai Chaemsup(Thai Honda Racing/Honda)
13 Hikari Okubo(Y ! Mobile & Kohara RT/Honda)
20 Atsushi Kawaguchi(Hamamatsu ESCARGOT/Honda)
24 Taiga Hada(T.Pro Yuzy Honda/Honda)
DNF Ratthapong Wilairot(A.P. Honda Thailand/Honda)
DNF Md Akmal Hisyam(T.Pro Yuzy Honda/Honda)
Asia Dream Cup - Race Results
Rank
Rider (Team)
1 Seiji Maeda/Yoshiharu Okada (JPN/JPN)
2 Seiji Yasutomi/Kouji Fukui (JPN/JPN)
3 Naoki Kubo/Kouji Nishizawa (JPN/JPN)
4 Syou Hasegawa/Norihiko Murata (JPN/JPN)
5 Mei Sakurai/Tisato Katayaka (JPN/JPN)
6 Yuto Tajiri/Riku Sugawara (JPN/JPN)
7 Hiroki Nakamura/Yusuke Nakamura (JPN/JPN)
8 Broc Pearson/Kazuki Tomita (AUS/JPN)
9 Akane Nakatani/Seiji Kanda (JPN/JPN)
10 Kaoru Taki/Masaki Tokudome (JPN/JPN)
11 Yogha Dio Syachputra/Md. Febriansyah (IDN/IDN)
12 Shinobu Morinaka/Hideki Ohno (JPN/JPN)
13 Makoto Mori/Tadhito Emori (JPN/JPN)
14 Shingo Suzuki/Mutsuhide Kinjou (JPN/JPN)
15 Woraphod Niamsakhonsakul/Muklada Sarapuech (THA/THA)
16 Makoto Takagi/Kouichi Kusumoto (JPN/JPN)
17 Kousuke Imai/Junpei Morita (JPN/JPN)
18 Osamu Kishimoto/Okada Junichi (JPN/JPN)
19 Yuhei Harada/Junji Tonari (JPN/JPN)
20 Hafiz Nor Azman/Saiful Azhary (MYS/MYS)
21 Shankar Sarath Kumar/Hari Krishnan Rajagopala (IND/IND)
22 Hiroshi Yano/Yuji Iwamoto (JPN/JPN)
23 Syou Tanaka/Masahiro Hamamoto (JPN/JPN)
24 Sethu Rajiv/Jaden Gunawardena (IND/LKA)
25 Kazuhiro Kanayama/Touru Takabayashi (JPN/JPN)
26 Hisashi Oomi/Shigenori Takahashi (JPN/JPN)
27 Hiroya Mizutani/Syouta Endo (JPN/JPN)
28 Kazuyoshi Imai/Syun Yamazaki (JPN/JPN)
29 Lee Yen Ching/Zhou Sheng Jun Jie (TWN/CHN)
30 Motohisa Watanabe/Kenichi Shibai (JPN/JPN)
31 Kazuma Ushiba/Hiromitsu Baba (JPN/JPN)
32 Kazuyuki Nagai/Toshiyuki Wada (JPN/JPN)
33 Aritoshi Usami/Yoshio Maeda (JPN/JPN)
34 Toshiya Doi/Taisuke Higuchi (JPN/JPN)
35 Kunihiko Nabeyama/Toshihiko Teraoka (JPN/JPN)
36 Seiji Hashimura/Yuji Shimazaki (JPN/JPN)
37 Haruki Noguchi/Eiki Watanabe (JPN/JPN)
38 Yoshio Sato/Jouji Tagashira (JPN/JPN)
39 Satoshi Shimono/Isse Kondo (JPN/JPN)
40 Sena Kiriishi/Ruka kiriishi
DNF Arsyad RusydiShaharum/Md. Hasroy Osman (SGP/SGP)
DNF Koko Masaharu C. Tadachi/Robert Matthew Ramos (PHL/PHL)
DNF Nobuo Itano/Taiki Watanabe (JPN/JPN)
DNF Youischi Harada/Ryouji Hashimoto (JPN/JPN)
DNF Nobuyo Mitani/Nozomi Tuboto (JPN/JPN)