2026 Suzuka 8 Hours Results: Honda wins as rain ends race early

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2026 Suzuka 8 Hours Results: Honda wins as rain ends race early

Full results from the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race affter Honda won in sodden conditions.

Jonathan Rea, 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours. Credit: Honda Racing Corporation.
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Results from the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours in Japan, the third round of this year’s Endurance World Championship.

The early part of the race was led by the AutoUbe team, but it was soon overhauled by Honda HRC before the Tati team brought out the safety car for the first time in the opening hour when it expired in the middle of 130R.

The safety car came out again in the second hour as the rain was too heavy. Racing resumed as the race approached the two hour mark and Honda dominated from there, leading ahead of the factory Yamaha team into the final hour.

With half-an-hour to go, and 20 seconds or so separating the two leading teams, the safety car came out for the final time and once again for heavy rain. Green flag conditions did not resume, meaning the race was effectively decided 30 minutes from the finish, with Honda HRC winning from Yamaha Factory Racing and the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team.

YART Yamaha was fourth ahead of AutoUbe, SERT, Suzuki CN Challenge, SDG HARC-PRO, Astemo Honda, and Team ATJ.

Full results from the Suzuka 8 Hours are below. Full results and timing to follow.

2026 Suzuka 8 Hours | Race | Result

Pos Team Manufacturer Rider Blue Rider Yellow Rider Red Timing
1 Honda HRC Honda Takumi Takahashi Jonathan Rea Somkiat Chantra 188 Laps
2 Yamaha Factory Racing Team Yamaha Katsuyuki Nakasuga Jack Miller Andrea Locatelli 1:34.280
3 BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team BMW Markus Reiterberger Steven Odendaal Michael van der Mark 1:44.087
4 YART Yamaha Official EWC Team Yamaha Karel Hanika Marvin Fritz Leandro Mercado 3:44.444
5 AutoRace Ube Racing Team BMW Naomichi Uramoto Sylvain Guintoli Christophe Ponsson 3:46.113
6 Yoshimura SERT Motul Suzuki Gregg Black Dan Linfoot Cocoro Atsumi 2L
7 Team Suzuki CN Challenge Suzuki Takuya Tsuda Ryo Mizuno Etienne Masson 2L
8 SDG Team HARC-PRO Honda Honda Yuki Kunii Teppei Nagoe Keito Abe 3L
9 Honda Asia-Dream Racing with Astemo Honda Nakarin Atiratphuvapat Khairul Idham Pawi Mohammad Adenanta Putra 3L
10 Team ATJ with NTT docomo Business Honda Satoru Iwata Koki Suzuki Takuma Kunimine 4L
11 S-Pulse Dream Racing Suzuki Suzuki Sho Nishimura Jonas Folger Jeremy Guarnoni 5L
12 Marumae Team Kodama Yamaha Yuta Kodama Max Stauffer Takumi Takahashi 5L
13 KWT Kaedear Kawasaki Roman Ramos Christian Gamarino Gregory Leblanc 6L
14 NCXX Racing with Riders Club Honda Tetsuta Nagashima Yudai Kamei Yuta Date 7L
15 Team Etoile BMW Hikari Okubo Motoharu Ito Kaito Toba 7L
16 Wojcik Racing Team #77 SST Honda Oscar Gutierrez Jordi Torres Gabriele Giannini 7L
17 Champion-Hert powered by MRP BMW Balint Kovacs Jan Buhn Loris Cresson 7L
18 Motobox Kremer Racing by 321 Yamaha   Dirk Geiger Twan Smits 8L
19 KRP Sanyo Kogyo & RS-Itoh Kawasaki Yuto Sano Katsuto Sano Akira Yanagawa 8L
20 Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing Honda Kohta Nozane Taiga Hada Kohta Arakawa 9L
21 Team Bolliger Switzerland #8 Kawasaki Nico Thoni Alex Toledo Xavi Artigas 9L
22 ERC Endurance #6 BMW Marcel Schrotter Kenny Foray Jan-Ole Jahnig 9L
23 Honda Suzuka Racing Team Honda Ben Young Genki Nakajima Maiku Watanuki 9L
24 Shinsyuren with Totec BMW Hinata Nakajima Kyosuke Okuda Isami Higashimura 10L
25 Honda Hamamatsu Escargot RT with Dreamo Honda Takumi Fukuda Syuu Yamato Kai Aota 11L
26 FCC TSR Honda France Honda Alan Techer Corentin Perolari John McPhee 12L
27 Kawasaki Plaza Racing Team Kawasaki Ryosuke Iwato Gun Mie Yosuke Nakayama 12L
28 Team38 Kawasaki Junpei Takatani Yoshiaki Nojima Seiichiro Morimoto 13L
29 Team Matsunaga KDC x Gears Yamaha Takimu Hane Takatsugu Sakai Masahiko Arakawa 14L
30 Elf Marc VDS Racing Team/KM99 Yamaha Randy de Puniet Florian Marino Alessandro Delbianco 15L
31 Dafy-Kaedear-RAC41-Honda Honda Takeshi Ishizuka Diego Poncet Kevin Manfredi 15L
32 Moto Win Racing Honda Keisuke Tsukahara Yutaka Murase Shingo Suzuki 16L
33 Sanrio Characters × Honda Kumamoto Racing Honda Kazuhiro Kojima Yosuke Ido Toshiki Senda 17L
34 Verity & fenice with Kirinjishi Yamaha Shota Yokoyama Mitsuhiro Kuno Minori Sato 17L
35 Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto&Asaka Honda Hiromasa Okada Kei Tomie Aki Ito 17L
36 Team Tatara Aprilia Aprilia Kazuki Watanabe Ruka Wada Akito Haga 17L
37 Bakuon!!Team Nagano&Y.S.S.RD Yamaha Shineguri Sakurayama Yuki Ito Ren Okabe 18L
38 Himeji Nichirin Racing Yamaha Masaki Adachi Souta Horii Motaoki Sawamura 20L
39 Team Sugai Racing Japan Honda Yoshiyuki Sugai Yasuhiro Matsukawa Varis Fleming 21L
40 Honda Tochigi Racing & Koyokai Dream Racing Honda Muhammad Helmi Azman Takafumi Kato Muhammad Zaqhwan Zaidi 22L
41 Team Kohsaka & Takahon Racing Honda Tatsuya Yamaguchi Rui Kusu Shogo Kawasaki 23L
42 MOTORCYCLES#27 EJ YIC Honda Tsuna Nishinaki Astushi Kawaguchi Takashi Maekawa 24L
43 Sanmei Team Taro Plusone with SDG BMW Taro Sekiguchi Tatsuya Nakamura Keisuke Tanaka 26L
44 3ART Best Of Bike Hamaguchi Yamaha Lucas Mahias Loic Arbel Robin Mulhauser 27L
45 Tone Team4413 BMW BMW Tomoya Hoshino Mate Szamado Ainosuke Yoshida 40L
46 Team Frontier BMW Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman Ryosuke Katahira Sho Hasegawa 47L
47 Dog House & Tripoint Fuchs Silkolene Suzuki Keita Iwatani Eisuke Samura Toshiharu Oosuka 62L*
48 Team Sakurai Honda Honda Kazuki Ito Daijiro Hiura Ryusei Yamanaka 77L*
DNF Team BabyFace TitaniumPower Yamaha Shota Ite Rei Matsuoka Kazuma Tsuda DNF
DNF Tati Team Ava6 Racing Honda Hugo Clere Mickael Di Meglio Isaac Vinales DNF

*Not classified, failed to complete minimum number of laps (75 per cent of leader’s laps).

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Full results from the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race affter Honda won in sodden conditions.

Results from the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours in Japan, the third round of this year’s Endurance World Championship.

The early part of the race was led by the AutoUbe team, but it was soon overhauled by Honda HRC before the Tati team brought out the safety car for the first time in the opening hour when it expired in the middle of 130R.

The safety car came out again in the second hour as the rain was too heavy. Racing resumed as the race approached the two hour mark and Honda dominated from there, leading ahead of the factory Yamaha team into the final hour.

With half-an-hour to go, and 20 seconds or so separating the two leading teams, the safety car came out for the final time and once again for heavy rain. Green flag conditions did not resume, meaning the race was effectively decided 30 minutes from the finish, with Honda HRC winning from Yamaha Factory Racing and the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team.

YART Yamaha was fourth ahead of AutoUbe, SERT, Suzuki CN Challenge, SDG HARC-PRO, Astemo Honda, and Team ATJ.

Full results from the Suzuka 8 Hours are below. Full results and timing to follow.

2026 Suzuka 8 Hours | Race | Result

Pos Team Manufacturer Rider Blue Rider Yellow Rider Red Timing
1 Honda HRC Honda Takumi Takahashi Jonathan Rea Somkiat Chantra 188 Laps
2 Yamaha Factory Racing Team Yamaha Katsuyuki Nakasuga Jack Miller Andrea Locatelli 1:34.280
3 BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team BMW Markus Reiterberger Steven Odendaal Michael van der Mark 1:44.087
4 YART Yamaha Official EWC Team Yamaha Karel Hanika Marvin Fritz Leandro Mercado 3:44.444
5 AutoRace Ube Racing Team BMW Naomichi Uramoto Sylvain Guintoli Christophe Ponsson 3:46.113
6 Yoshimura SERT Motul Suzuki Gregg Black Dan Linfoot Cocoro Atsumi 2L
7 Team Suzuki CN Challenge Suzuki Takuya Tsuda Ryo Mizuno Etienne Masson 2L
8 SDG Team HARC-PRO Honda Honda Yuki Kunii Teppei Nagoe Keito Abe 3L
9 Honda Asia-Dream Racing with Astemo Honda Nakarin Atiratphuvapat Khairul Idham Pawi Mohammad Adenanta Putra 3L
10 Team ATJ with NTT docomo Business Honda Satoru Iwata Koki Suzuki Takuma Kunimine 4L
11 S-Pulse Dream Racing Suzuki Suzuki Sho Nishimura Jonas Folger Jeremy Guarnoni 5L
12 Marumae Team Kodama Yamaha Yuta Kodama Max Stauffer Takumi Takahashi 5L
13 KWT Kaedear Kawasaki Roman Ramos Christian Gamarino Gregory Leblanc 6L
14 NCXX Racing with Riders Club Honda Tetsuta Nagashima Yudai Kamei Yuta Date 7L
15 Team Etoile BMW Hikari Okubo Motoharu Ito Kaito Toba 7L
16 Wojcik Racing Team #77 SST Honda Oscar Gutierrez Jordi Torres Gabriele Giannini 7L
17 Champion-Hert powered by MRP BMW Balint Kovacs Jan Buhn Loris Cresson 7L
18 Motobox Kremer Racing by 321 Yamaha   Dirk Geiger Twan Smits 8L
19 KRP Sanyo Kogyo & RS-Itoh Kawasaki Yuto Sano Katsuto Sano Akira Yanagawa 8L
20 Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing Honda Kohta Nozane Taiga Hada Kohta Arakawa 9L
21 Team Bolliger Switzerland #8 Kawasaki Nico Thoni Alex Toledo Xavi Artigas 9L
22 ERC Endurance #6 BMW Marcel Schrotter Kenny Foray Jan-Ole Jahnig 9L
23 Honda Suzuka Racing Team Honda Ben Young Genki Nakajima Maiku Watanuki 9L
24 Shinsyuren with Totec BMW Hinata Nakajima Kyosuke Okuda Isami Higashimura 10L
25 Honda Hamamatsu Escargot RT with Dreamo Honda Takumi Fukuda Syuu Yamato Kai Aota 11L
26 FCC TSR Honda France Honda Alan Techer Corentin Perolari John McPhee 12L
27 Kawasaki Plaza Racing Team Kawasaki Ryosuke Iwato Gun Mie Yosuke Nakayama 12L
28 Team38 Kawasaki Junpei Takatani Yoshiaki Nojima Seiichiro Morimoto 13L
29 Team Matsunaga KDC x Gears Yamaha Takimu Hane Takatsugu Sakai Masahiko Arakawa 14L
30 Elf Marc VDS Racing Team/KM99 Yamaha Randy de Puniet Florian Marino Alessandro Delbianco 15L
31 Dafy-Kaedear-RAC41-Honda Honda Takeshi Ishizuka Diego Poncet Kevin Manfredi 15L
32 Moto Win Racing Honda Keisuke Tsukahara Yutaka Murase Shingo Suzuki 16L
33 Sanrio Characters × Honda Kumamoto Racing Honda Kazuhiro Kojima Yosuke Ido Toshiki Senda 17L
34 Verity & fenice with Kirinjishi Yamaha Shota Yokoyama Mitsuhiro Kuno Minori Sato 17L
35 Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto&Asaka Honda Hiromasa Okada Kei Tomie Aki Ito 17L
36 Team Tatara Aprilia Aprilia Kazuki Watanabe Ruka Wada Akito Haga 17L
37 Bakuon!!Team Nagano&Y.S.S.RD Yamaha Shineguri Sakurayama Yuki Ito Ren Okabe 18L
38 Himeji Nichirin Racing Yamaha Masaki Adachi Souta Horii Motaoki Sawamura 20L
39 Team Sugai Racing Japan Honda Yoshiyuki Sugai Yasuhiro Matsukawa Varis Fleming 21L
40 Honda Tochigi Racing & Koyokai Dream Racing Honda Muhammad Helmi Azman Takafumi Kato Muhammad Zaqhwan Zaidi 22L
41 Team Kohsaka & Takahon Racing Honda Tatsuya Yamaguchi Rui Kusu Shogo Kawasaki 23L
42 MOTORCYCLES#27 EJ YIC Honda Tsuna Nishinaki Astushi Kawaguchi Takashi Maekawa 24L
43 Sanmei Team Taro Plusone with SDG BMW Taro Sekiguchi Tatsuya Nakamura Keisuke Tanaka 26L
44 3ART Best Of Bike Hamaguchi Yamaha Lucas Mahias Loic Arbel Robin Mulhauser 27L
45 Tone Team4413 BMW BMW Tomoya Hoshino Mate Szamado Ainosuke Yoshida 40L
46 Team Frontier BMW Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman Ryosuke Katahira Sho Hasegawa 47L
47 Dog House & Tripoint Fuchs Silkolene Suzuki Keita Iwatani Eisuke Samura Toshiharu Oosuka 62L*
48 Team Sakurai Honda Honda Kazuki Ito Daijiro Hiura Ryusei Yamanaka 77L*
DNF Team BabyFace TitaniumPower Yamaha Shota Ite Rei Matsuoka Kazuma Tsuda DNF
DNF Tati Team Ava6 Racing Honda Hugo Clere Mickael Di Meglio Isaac Vinales DNF

*Not classified, failed to complete minimum number of laps (75 per cent of leader’s laps).

Results from the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours in Japan, the third round of this year’s Endurance World Championship.

The early part of the race was led by the AutoUbe team, but it was soon overhauled by Honda HRC before the Tati team brought out the safety car for the first time in the opening hour when it expired in the middle of 130R.

The safety car came out again in the second hour as the rain was too heavy. Racing resumed as the race approached the two hour mark and Honda dominated from there, leading ahead of the factory Yamaha team into the final hour.

With half-an-hour to go, and 20 seconds or so separating the two leading teams, the safety car came out for the final time and once again for heavy rain. Green flag conditions did not resume, meaning the race was effectively decided 30 minutes from the finish, with Honda HRC winning from Yamaha Factory Racing and the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team.

YART Yamaha was fourth ahead of AutoUbe, SERT, Suzuki CN Challenge, SDG HARC-PRO, Astemo Honda, and Team ATJ.

Full results from the Suzuka 8 Hours are below. Full results and timing to follow.

2026 Suzuka 8 Hours | Race | Result

Pos Team Manufacturer Rider Blue Rider Yellow Rider Red Timing
1 Honda HRC Honda Takumi Takahashi Jonathan Rea Somkiat Chantra 188 Laps
2 Yamaha Factory Racing Team Yamaha Katsuyuki Nakasuga Jack Miller Andrea Locatelli 1:34.280
3 BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team BMW Markus Reiterberger Steven Odendaal Michael van der Mark 1:44.087
4 YART Yamaha Official EWC Team Yamaha Karel Hanika Marvin Fritz Leandro Mercado 3:44.444
5 AutoRace Ube Racing Team BMW Naomichi Uramoto Sylvain Guintoli Christophe Ponsson 3:46.113
6 Yoshimura SERT Motul Suzuki Gregg Black Dan Linfoot Cocoro Atsumi 2L
7 Team Suzuki CN Challenge Suzuki Takuya Tsuda Ryo Mizuno Etienne Masson 2L
8 SDG Team HARC-PRO Honda Honda Yuki Kunii Teppei Nagoe Keito Abe 3L
9 Honda Asia-Dream Racing with Astemo Honda Nakarin Atiratphuvapat Khairul Idham Pawi Mohammad Adenanta Putra 3L
10 Team ATJ with NTT docomo Business Honda Satoru Iwata Koki Suzuki Takuma Kunimine 4L
11 S-Pulse Dream Racing Suzuki Suzuki Sho Nishimura Jonas Folger Jeremy Guarnoni 5L
12 Marumae Team Kodama Yamaha Yuta Kodama Max Stauffer Takumi Takahashi 5L
13 KWT Kaedear Kawasaki Roman Ramos Christian Gamarino Gregory Leblanc 6L
14 NCXX Racing with Riders Club Honda Tetsuta Nagashima Yudai Kamei Yuta Date 7L
15 Team Etoile BMW Hikari Okubo Motoharu Ito Kaito Toba 7L
16 Wojcik Racing Team #77 SST Honda Oscar Gutierrez Jordi Torres Gabriele Giannini 7L
17 Champion-Hert powered by MRP BMW Balint Kovacs Jan Buhn Loris Cresson 7L
18 Motobox Kremer Racing by 321 Yamaha   Dirk Geiger Twan Smits 8L
19 KRP Sanyo Kogyo & RS-Itoh Kawasaki Yuto Sano Katsuto Sano Akira Yanagawa 8L
20 Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing Honda Kohta Nozane Taiga Hada Kohta Arakawa 9L
21 Team Bolliger Switzerland #8 Kawasaki Nico Thoni Alex Toledo Xavi Artigas 9L
22 ERC Endurance #6 BMW Marcel Schrotter Kenny Foray Jan-Ole Jahnig 9L
23 Honda Suzuka Racing Team Honda Ben Young Genki Nakajima Maiku Watanuki 9L
24 Shinsyuren with Totec BMW Hinata Nakajima Kyosuke Okuda Isami Higashimura 10L
25 Honda Hamamatsu Escargot RT with Dreamo Honda Takumi Fukuda Syuu Yamato Kai Aota 11L
26 FCC TSR Honda France Honda Alan Techer Corentin Perolari John McPhee 12L
27 Kawasaki Plaza Racing Team Kawasaki Ryosuke Iwato Gun Mie Yosuke Nakayama 12L
28 Team38 Kawasaki Junpei Takatani Yoshiaki Nojima Seiichiro Morimoto 13L
29 Team Matsunaga KDC x Gears Yamaha Takimu Hane Takatsugu Sakai Masahiko Arakawa 14L
30 Elf Marc VDS Racing Team/KM99 Yamaha Randy de Puniet Florian Marino Alessandro Delbianco 15L
31 Dafy-Kaedear-RAC41-Honda Honda Takeshi Ishizuka Diego Poncet Kevin Manfredi 15L
32 Moto Win Racing Honda Keisuke Tsukahara Yutaka Murase Shingo Suzuki 16L
33 Sanrio Characters × Honda Kumamoto Racing Honda Kazuhiro Kojima Yosuke Ido Toshiki Senda 17L
34 Verity & fenice with Kirinjishi Yamaha Shota Yokoyama Mitsuhiro Kuno Minori Sato 17L
35 Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto&Asaka Honda Hiromasa Okada Kei Tomie Aki Ito 17L
36 Team Tatara Aprilia Aprilia Kazuki Watanabe Ruka Wada Akito Haga 17L
37 Bakuon!!Team Nagano&Y.S.S.RD Yamaha Shineguri Sakurayama Yuki Ito Ren Okabe 18L
38 Himeji Nichirin Racing Yamaha Masaki Adachi Souta Horii Motaoki Sawamura 20L
39 Team Sugai Racing Japan Honda Yoshiyuki Sugai Yasuhiro Matsukawa Varis Fleming 21L
40 Honda Tochigi Racing & Koyokai Dream Racing Honda Muhammad Helmi Azman Takafumi Kato Muhammad Zaqhwan Zaidi 22L
41 Team Kohsaka & Takahon Racing Honda Tatsuya Yamaguchi Rui Kusu Shogo Kawasaki 23L
42 MOTORCYCLES#27 EJ YIC Honda Tsuna Nishinaki Astushi Kawaguchi Takashi Maekawa 24L
43 Sanmei Team Taro Plusone with SDG BMW Taro Sekiguchi Tatsuya Nakamura Keisuke Tanaka 26L
44 3ART Best Of Bike Hamaguchi Yamaha Lucas Mahias Loic Arbel Robin Mulhauser 27L
45 Tone Team4413 BMW BMW Tomoya Hoshino Mate Szamado Ainosuke Yoshida 40L
46 Team Frontier BMW Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman Ryosuke Katahira Sho Hasegawa 47L
47 Dog House & Tripoint Fuchs Silkolene Suzuki Keita Iwatani Eisuke Samura Toshiharu Oosuka 62L*
48 Team Sakurai Honda Honda Kazuki Ito Daijiro Hiura Ryusei Yamanaka 77L*
DNF Team BabyFace TitaniumPower Yamaha Shota Ite Rei Matsuoka Kazuma Tsuda DNF
DNF Tati Team Ava6 Racing Honda Hugo Clere Mickael Di Meglio Isaac Vinales DNF

*Not classified, failed to complete minimum number of laps (75 per cent of leader’s laps).

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