2026 Suzuka 8 Hours grid after Top 10 Trial cancelled

The grid for the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours after the cancellation of the Top 10 Trial session on Saturday.

04 Jul 2026

Jonathan Rea, 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours.
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The grid for the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours after the Top 10 Trial was cancelled; the starting order is based on Friday’s qualifying times consequently.

Honda HRC start on pole position as they chase a fifth consecutive win at Suzuka with Jonathan Rea, Somkiat Chantra, and Takumi Takahashi aboard the factory Fireblade.

Honda HRC #30 (Chantra/Rea/Takahashi), 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours.
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BMW line up second with their factory EWC team of Michael van der Mark, Markus Reiterberger, and Steven Odendaal.

Marc VDS KM99 complete the top-three on Sunday’s grid with Randy de Puniet, Florian Marino, and Alessandro Delbianco.

Fourth will be the YART Yamaha team, the reigning EWC champions, with Marvin Fritz, Karel Hanika, and Leandro Mercado.

Yamaha’s one-off factory team of Jack Miller, Katsuyuki Nakasuga, and Andrea Locatelli will start fifth.

FCC TSR Honda France will line up sixth ahead of Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing, SERT Suzuki, AutoRace Ube Racing, and the SDG HARC-PRO Honda team which completes the top-10.

The 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours will start at 11:30 local time on Sunday, or 03:30 BST.

The full starting order for the race is below.

2026 Suzuka 8 Hours \| Grid (Qualifying Result)
Pos	Team	Manufacturer	Rider Blue	Rider Yellow	Rider Red	Timing
1	Honda HRC	Honda	Takumi Takahashi	Jonathan Rea	Somkiat Chantra	2:04.738
2	BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team	BMW	Markus Reiterberger	Steven Odendaal	Michael van der Mark	2:04.813
3	Elf Marc VDS Racing Team/KM99	Yamaha	Randy de Puniet	Florian Marino	Alessandro Delbianco	2:04.960
4	YART Yamaha Official EWC Team	Yamaha	Karel Hanika	Marvin Fritz	Leandro Mercado	2:05.169
5	Yamaha Factory Racing Team	Yamaha	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Jack Miller	Andrea Locatelli	2:05.196
6	FCC TSR Honda France	Honda	Alan Techer	Corentin Perolari	John McPhee	2:05.321
7	Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing	Honda	Kohta Nozane	Taiga Hada	Kohta Arakawa	2:05.323
8	Yoshimura SERT Motul	Suzuki	Gregg Black	Dan Linfoot	Cocoro Atsumi	2:05.359
9	AutoRace Ube Racing Team	BMW	Naomichi Uramoto	Sylvain Guintoli	Christophe Ponsson	2:05.461
10	SDG Team HARC-PRO Honda	Honda	Yuki Kunii	Teppei Nagoe	Keito Abe	2:05.851
11	Team Sakurai Honda	Honda	Kazuki Ito	Daijiro Hiura	Ryusei Yamanaka	2:05.892
12	Team ATJ with NTT docomo Business	Honda	Satoru Iwata	Koki Suzuki	Takuma Kunimine	2:05.898
13	Team Suzuki CN Challenge	Suzuki	Takuya Tsuda	Ryo Mizuno	Etienne Masson	2:05.924
14	KWT Kaedear	Kawasaki	Roman Ramos	Christian Gamarino	Gregory Leblanc	2:06.007
15	Team Etoile	BMW	Hikari Okubo	Motoharu Ito	Kaito Toba	2:06.209
16	S-Pulse Dream Racing Suzuki	Suzuki	Sho Nishimura	Jonas Folger	Jeremy Guarnoni	2:06.397
17	ERC Endurance #6	BMW	Marcel Schrotter	Kenny Foray	Jan-Ole Jahnig	2:06.496
18	Marumae Team Kodama	Yamaha	Yuta Kodama	Max Stauffer	Takumi Takahashi	2:06.576
19	Team BabyFace TitaniumPower	Yamaha	Shota Ite	Rei Matsuoka	Kazuma Tsuda	2:06.598
20	Honda Asia-Dream Racing with Astemo	Honda	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Khairul Idham Pawi	Mohammad Adenanta Putra	2:06.709
21	NCXX Racing with Riders Club	Honda	Tetsuta Nagashima	Yudai Kamei	Yuta Date	2:07.110
22	Sanmei Team Taro Plusone with SDG	BMW	Taro Sekiguchi	Tatsuya Nakamura	Keisuke Tanaka	2:07.150
23	Team Tatara Aprilia	Aprilia	Kazuki Watanabe	Ruka Wada	Akito Haga	2:07.465
24	Kawasaki Plaza Racing Team	Kawasaki	Ryosuke Iwato	Gun Mie	Yosuke Nakayama	2:07.527
25	Dafy-Kaedear-RAC41-Honda	Honda	Takeshi Ishizuka	Diego Poncet	Kevin Manfredi	2:07.772
26	Team Bolliger Switzerland #8	Kawasaki	Nico Thoni	Alex Toledo	Xavi Artigas	2:07.927
27	3ART Best Of Bike Hamaguchi	Yamaha	Lucas Mahias	Loic Arbel	Robin Mulhauser	2:08.029
28	Tati Team Ava6 Racing	Honda	Hugo Clere	Mickael Di Meglio	Isaac Vinales	2:08.094
29	Motobox Kremer Racing by 321	Yamaha		Dirk Geiger	Twan Smits	2:08.160
30	KRP Sanyo Kogyo & RS-Itoh	Kawasaki	Yuto Sano	Katsuto Sano	Akira Yanagawa	2:08.191
31	Honda Suzuka Racing Team	Honda	Ben Young	Genki Nakajima	Maiku Watanuki	2:08.301
32	Wojcik Racing Team #77 SST	Honda	Oscar Gutierrez	Jordi Torres	Gabriele Giannini	2:08.356
33	Bakuon!!Team Nagano&Y.S.S.RD	Yamaha	Shineguri Sakurayama	Yuki Ito	Ren Okabe	2:08.455
34	Honda Tochigi Racing & Koyokai Dream Racing	Honda	Muhammad Helmi Azman	Takafumi Kato	Muhammad Zaqhwan Zaidi	2:08.463
35	Champion-Hert powered by MRP	BMW	Balint Kovacs	Jan Buhn	Loris Cresson	2:09.069
36	Shinsuryen with Totec	BMW	Hinata Nakajima	Kyosuke Okuda	Isami Higashimura	2:09.073
37	Tone Team4413 BMW	BMW	Tomoya Hoshino	Mate Szamado	Ainosuke Yoshida	2:09.090
38	Sanrio Characters × Honda Kumamoto Racing	Honda	Kazuhiro Kojima	Yosuke Ido	Toshiki Senda	2:09.683
39	Honda Hamamatsu Escargot RT with Dreamo	Honda	Takumi Fukuda	Syuu Yamato	Kai Aota	2:10.009
40	Team Kohsaka & Takahon Racing	Honda	Tatsuya Yamaguchi	Rui Kusu	Shogo Kawasaki	2:10.258
41	Verity & fenice with Kirinjishi	Yamaha	Shota Yokoyama	Mitsuhiro Kuno	Minori Sato	2:10.450
42	Team Frontier	BMW	Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman	Ryosuke Katahira	Sho Hasegawa	2:10.565
43	Himeji Nichirin Racing	Yamaha	Masaki Adachi	Souta Horii	Motaoki Sawamura	2:10.961
44	Team Matsunaga KDC x Gears	Yamaha	Takimu Hane	Takatsugu Sakai	Masahiko Arakawa	2:11.838
45	Team Sugai Racing Japan	Honda	Yoshiyuki Sugai	Yasuhiro Matsukawa	Varis Fleming	2:11.898
46	Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto&Asaka	Honda	Hiromasa Okada	Kei Tomie	Aki Ito	2:12.492
47	Moto Win Racing	Honda	Keisuke Tsukahara	Yutaka Murase	Shingo Suzuki	2:12.494
48	Team38	Kawasaki	Junpei Takatani	Yoshiaki Nojima	Seiichiro Morimoto	2:12.559
49	Dog House & Tripoint Fuchs Silkolene	Suzuki	Keita Iwatani	Eisuke Samura	Toshiharu Oosuka	2:13.665
50	MOTORCYCLES#27 EJ YIC	Honda	Tsuna Nishinaki	Astushi Kawaguchi	Takashi Maekawa	2:13.885