Team Suzuki CN Challenge go fully sustainable for Suzuka 8 Hours

2025 Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race
Staff Suzuki CN Problem

After fielding a Suzuki GSX-R1000R working on 40 per cent bio-sourced gasoline within the 2024 version of the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race, Staff Suzuki CN Problem, a crew operated by Suzuki Motor Company staff, will return for the forty sixth version of the enduring occasion with a fair bolder step ahead: utilizing 100 per cent sustainable gasoline.

Staff Suzuki CN Problem

The initiative aligns with Suzuki’s broader dedication to decreasing environmental impression whereas sustaining excessive efficiency. By collaborating in one of the gruelling endurance races on the earth, Suzuki goals to speed up the event of future-focused environmental applied sciences below real-world, high-stress racing circumstances, whereas additionally showcasing the technical experience and fervour of Suzuki’s in-house crew.

Toshihiro Suzuki – President of Suzuki Motor Company

“Though it was an entire new problem for the corporate within the earlier yr’s participation, due to the assist of companion firms together with Yoshimura Japan, in addition to enthusiastic followers, we had been in a position to obtain eighth place total. We’ll proceed to take part this yr as a part of the corporate’s expertise improvement within the sustainability subject. This not solely signifies that we’re merely persevering with our exercise, however we’re additionally having the aim of overcoming numerous points by setting increased targets, and I consider that by making merchandise as one crew together with our companion firms, it might result in realising a greater future.”

Tsuyoshi Tanaka – Govt Normal Supervisor, Motorbike Operations Suzuki

“Final yr, Staff Suzuki CN Problem accomplished the extreme endurance racing of Suzuka 8 Hours whereas decreasing environmental hundreds, and by doing so, we had been in a position to take one important step towards the way forward for inside combustion and motorsports. Whereas overcoming the problems revealed from our earlier exercise, this yr we are going to develop the usage of sustainable gadgets and make efforts for expertise improvement towards taking up the problem of additional sustainability efficiency. We’ll problem on this yr’s Suzuka 8 Hours by going past the sphere of carbon neutrality and holding a theme of broadly decreasing environmental hundreds.”

A formidable eighth total and winner of the Experimental class within the 2024 Suzuka 8 Hours, Staff Suzuki CN Problem has tweaked its rider line-up because it pushes for a fair higher total end result this season.

Team Suzuki CN Challenge — Staff Suzuki CN Problem

Becoming a member of the squad are Spaniard Albert Arenas, who completed third in final yr’s occasion, and Japan’s Takuya Tsuda, a veteran Suzuki check and improvement rider. They’ll crew up with French endurance ace Étienne Masson, who returns to the squad after serving to Yoshimura SERT Motul safe the 2025 FIM Endurance World Championship for Groups.

The trio will pilot a Suzuki GSX-R1000R powered completely by sustainable gasoline, because the crew as soon as once more competes within the Experimental class, a platform Suzuki is utilizing to trial rising applied sciences below excessive race circumstances. The mix of expertise, technical suggestions experience, and endurance credentials makes this line-up a formidable mixture as Suzuki continues its push towards greener efficiency on the world stage.

The Staff Suzuki CN Problem Suzuki GSX-R1000R

Staff Suzuki CN Problem necessities

Motorbike: Suzuki GSX-R1000R
Race quantity: #0
Gas: TotalEnergies’ Excellium Racing 100 (100% licensed* sustainable gasoline)
Tyres: Bridgestone racing tyres with an elevated ratio of recycled and recyclable supplies
Engine oil: Motul engine oil made utilizing bio-sourced base oil
Fairings: JHI recycled carbon materials (pre-preg materials)
Fenders: Tras, Bcomp® (Unbleached pure flax fibre composite materials)
Entrance brake: Sunstar Engineering non-heat therapy metal discs, Sunstar Engineering /
Tokai Carbon low-dust pads
Battery: ELIIY Energy LFP battery for motorbike, storage battery for the storage
Silencer: Yoshimura Japan silencer product of TranTixxii™ -Eco (Eco-friendly titanium)
Staff clothes: RS Taichi crew polo shirt product of 100% recycled material

*Excellium Racing 100 is a licensed 100% sustainable product in line with the mass balanced system utilized by a voluntary certification organisation authorised by the European Union *