Following Qualifying 2, Friday's track action ended with a free practice session in night conditions, dominated by the YART Yamaha team.
Superpole, for the top ten teams in today's qualifying, will take place on Saturday and the race on Sunday...
| Suzuka 8 Hours - Friday night free practice | ||
| Pos | Riders (Team) | Time/Gap |
| 1 | Parkes/Fritz/Canepa (YART - YAMAHA) | 2m 6.619s |
| 2 | Akiyoshi/Nagashima/Hada (au . Teluru SAG RT) | +2.337s |
| 3 | Kagayama/Watanabe/Guintoli (YOSHIMURA SUZUKI MOTUL RACING) | +2.594s |
| 4 | Alt/Marino/Simeon (VRD IGOL PIERRET EXPERIENCES) | +2.689s |
| 5 | Nakasuga/Lowes/Van Der Mark (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) | +2.961s |
| 6 | De Puniet/Hernandez/Gimbert (Honda Endurance Racing) | +2.980s |
| 7 | Philippe/Masson/Black (Suzuki Endurance Racing Team) | +3.322s |
| 8 | Guarnoni/Nigon/Checa (TEAM SRC KAWASAKI FRANCE) | +3.507s |
| 9 | Kamei/Hiura/Tadokoro (Honda Suzuka Racing Team) | +3.581s |
| 10 | Techer/Terol/Webb (TEAM FRONTIER) | +4.430s |
| 11 | Hoshino/Atsumi/Ishizuka (TONE RT SYNCEDGE 4413) | +4.494s |
| 12 | Hamahara/Ito/Sakumoto (Honda Dream RT SAKURAI HONDA) | +4.780s |
| 13 | Teramoto/Vallcaneras (TERAMOTO@J-TRIP Racing) | +4.817s |
| 14 | Tsuda/Kamaruzaman/Leblanc (TK SUZUKI BLUE MAX) | +4.877s |
| 15 | Hook/Foray/Di Meglio (F.C.C. TSR Honda France) | +5.252s |
| 16 | Konno/Elliott (TEAM R2CL SUN CHLORELLA) | +5.658s |
| 17 | Walraven/Buchan/Deguchi (Bolliger Team Switzerland) | +5.663s |
| 18 | Nagao/Hill (Zaif NCXX RACING & ZENKOUKAI) | +7.015s |
| 19 | Kunimatsu/Yoshida/Nagao (Zaif NCXX RACING) | +7.070s |
| 20 | Mizuno/Aegerter/Fores (MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO. Honda) | +7.354s |
| 21 | Zaidi/Izdihar/Nagoe (Honda Asia-Dream Racing with SHOWA) | +7.473s |
| 22 | Nakamoto/Nakamoto/Okubo (MobiusGreen YAOKAWASAKI) | +7.989s |
| 23 | Nakatomi/Wilairot/Wongthananon (RC KOSHIEN YAMAHA Endurance ASEAN) | +8.384s |
| 24 | Ogata/Bridewell/Ray (S-PULSE DREAM RACING . IAI) | +8.516s |
| 25 | Nakajima/Hasegawa (Honda Hamayuukai Hamamatsu Escargot) | +8.740s |
| 26 | Foray/Da Costa/Gines (Team ERC-BMW Motorrad Endurance) | +9.394s |
| 27 | Toyoda/Ikeda/Shibata (NIPPON SUMATRA BIO MASSE+D REX) | +9.576s |
| 28 | Uchiyama/Suzuki/Soma (E P S Racing GarageL8 TT45) | +9.690s |
| 29 | Nakamura/Katahira/Onuki (CLUB NEXT & MOTO BUM) | +9.751s |
| 30 | Nishimura/Miyakoshi/Sato (IWATA RACING FAMILY) | +9.924s |
| 31 | Kitaori/Yoshida/Kojima (Honda Ryokuyoukai Kumamoto Racing) | +10.759s |
| 32 | Takahashi/Kiyonari/Bradl (Red Bull Honda) | +11.123s |
| 33 | Ooishi/Hirano/Kisamori (TransMapRacing with ACE CAFE) | +11.463s |
| 34 | Mori/Takahashi/Okada (Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto & Asaka) | +11.741s |
| 35 | Higuchi/Inuki (H.L.O RACING SUZUKIN) | +12.121s |
| 36 | Iwatani/Samura (DOG HOUSE) | +12.554s |
| 37 | Takahashi/Koyama/Herfoss (KYB MORIWAKI RACING) | +13.173s |
| 38 | Imazu/Nishinaka/Tajima (PLUS ONE MCRT) | +14.105s |
| 39 | Okuda/Mori/Kataoka (Team de"LIGHT) | +14.534s |
| 40 | Shimoda/Kuribayashi/Honda (Honda EG Racing) | +14.647s |
| 41 | Takeda/Kambayashi/Wada (HAMAMATSU TEAM TITAN) | +14.754s |
| 42 | Uto/Hirajyo/Fujii (FUN FACTORY @ CS STANCE) | +14.899s |
| 43 | Tsuda/Fujita (Team BABY FACE Titanium Power Racing) | +14.955s |
| 44 | Ohno/Koyama/Noda (moto cubic + Motorrad Toyota + NR) | +16.322s |
| 45 | Rea/Haslam/Razgatlioglu (Kawasaki Racing Team Suzuka 8H) | +17.654s |
| 46 | Okazaki/Sakakibara/Nakamura (Honda Koyokai DREAM Racing Team) | +21.380s |
| 47 | Okuda/Ito/Ashina (ARMY. GIRL Team TJC & MF Kawasaki) | +22.036s |
| 48 | Shinjo/Nakamura/Matsumoto (Yamashina Kawasaki & AutoRaceUBE with YIC BR) | +22.349s |
| 49 | Yoshida/Toshimichi/Kotani (icu RT MOTOKIDS NAC SANYO) | +25.396s |
| 50 | Adachi/Yamauchi/Nakai (K's WORKS RACING YSS) | +27.135s |
| 51 | Szkopek/Rea/Bergman (Wójcik Racing Team) | +27.995s |
| 52 | Nakamura/Miyajima/Tsuji (TIO Verity) | +28.583s |
| 53 | Leonov/Estment/Cretu (GSM RACING) | +28.812s |
| 54 | Kiyosue/Nishijima/Karita (Team WITH87 Kawasaki PLAZA Fukuokahigashi) | +29.452s |
| 55 | Yanagawa/Aitchison/Iwato (KRP SANYOUKOGYO & will raise RS-ITOH) | +30.471s |
| 56 | Dehaye/Viehmann/Ortiz (MOTOBOX KREMER & Favorite Factory) | +33.133s |
| 57 | Kodama/Tokudome/Nakayama (Team Kodama) | +38.147s |
| 58 | Enjolras/Denis/Mackels (EVA RT WEBIKE TATi TEAM TRICKSTAR) | +39.757s |
| 59 | Sano/Matsumoto/Higashimura (TEAM HANSHIN RIDING SCHOOL) | +46.599s |
| 60 | Sekiguchi/Iwata/Kunimine (Team ATJ with JAPAN POST) | +52.975s |
