{"id":3103,"date":"2023-06-13T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webstylix.xsrv.jp\/tsr\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:11:44","slug":"3103","status":"publish","type":"chronicle","link":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/chronicle\/3103\/","title":{"rendered":"TSR-CHRONICLE-1988 \u2013 1992\u2460 First Victory at the Suzuka 4-Hour Race! CBR400RR Debut Win."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First held in 1978, the Suzuka 8 Hours quickly became one of Japan\u2019s premier motorcycle racing events. At that time, what was then known as Technical Sports \u2014 now TSR \u2014 focused its efforts on the Suzuka 4-Hour Endurance Motorcycle Race, which began two years later in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back through records from the time, the 1986 event reportedly attracted \u201c589 entries for only 63 positions on the final race grid\u201d \u2014 nearly ten times the number of available starting spots. Quite simply, this was an era when the race regularly received around 600 entries. As a result, qualifying sessions were held the week before the final race (which itself took place on the Saturday before the Suzuka 8 Hours final). Each category \u2014 TT-F3, SP400, and SP250 \u2014 was divided into multiple groups, making a total of 12 qualifying groups overall. Every group ran a 20-minute official qualifying session, followed by an additional two-hour consolation race (a last-chance qualifying race for eliminated entrants). The schedule was absolutely intense. Even after the weekend ended and Suzuka 8 Hours week officially began, music festivals, classic racing events, and various other attractions were held almost every day. It truly was an \u201cEndurance Week\u201d in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magazine articles and official programs from the era. At the time, the general feeling surrounding TSR was still very much: \u201cThey\u2019re only just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In 1988, the Honda CBR400RR achieved a debut victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The following year, in 1988, the Honda CBR400RR carrying the \u201cRR\u201d name made its debut \u2014 and, in the hands of Technical Sports, immediately achieved a debut victory at the Suzuka 4-Hour Endurance Race. At the time, the official entry name was \u201cGeneral MACH G100 Technical.\u201d The name F.C.C., which would later become one of the longest-running and perhaps most unique partnerships in world motorsports history \u2014 continuing for more than 30 years to this day \u2014 appeared only as a small logo sticker on part of the machine\u2019s bodywork. From that point onward began TSR\u2019s enduring partnership with FCC Co., Ltd., as well as TSR\u2019s identity as a true \u201cCBR specialist\u201d under the slogan: \u201cCBR is TSR.\u201d In many ways, this was the true beginning of TSR\u2019s endurance racing history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(To be continued in TSR-CHRONICLE-1988\u20131992\u2461)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After completing 96 laps, the comment given was simply: \u201cI\u2019m just happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3104,"template":"","era":[],"chapter":[],"race_list":[],"products_list":[],"team":[],"class_list":["post-3103","chronicle","type-chronicle","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chronicle\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chronicle"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chronicle"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"era","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/era?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"race_list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/race_list?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"products_list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/products_list?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}