Sport in Short: Motorcycling

SUZUKA EIGHT-HOUR ENDURANCE RACE (Japan) Leading overall practice times: 1 S Takeishi and K Iwahashi (Jap) Honda 2min 12.870sec; 2 M Aoki and K Osaka (Jap) Suzuki 2:13.100; 3 F Spencer (US) and R Tsuruta (Jap) Honda 2:13.121; 4 S Ito and S Tsujimoto (Jap) Honda 2:13.441; 5 W Gardner and D Beattie (Aus) Honda 2:13.565; 6 K Kitagawa (Jap) and T Crookes (SA) Kawasaki 2:13.922