The was a motorcycle endurance race, which took place on 3–5 July 2026 at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan."2026 FIM世界耐久選手権 “コカ･コーラ” 鈴鹿8耐第47回大会" suzukacircuit.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 December 2025."2026年の二輪耐久EWCカレンダーが発表。鈴鹿8耐は7月初旬、1カ月前倒しの開催に変更" as-web.jp (in Japanese), 19 September 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025. It marked the 47th running of the Suzuka 8 Hours since its inception in 1978, with the race having been cancelled only twice—in 2020 and 2021. The event also served as the third round of the 2026 FIM Endurance World Championship.
The race was sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) as part of the 2026 Endurance World Championship, and jointly organized by Mobilityland Corporation, the Motorcycle Federation of Japan (MFJ), and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, the championship's global promoter."2026年鈴鹿8耐：トライアウト廃止＆新選考制度とは? 第1回選考で10チームが本戦切符獲得" news.webike.net (in Japanese), 11 December 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025. The event has been sponsored by Coca-Cola in its official race title since 1984, making it one of the longest‑running title sponsorships in motorcycle racing."コカ・コーラ、鈴鹿8耐協賛40周年記念 オリジナルデザイン「Coke ON」スタンプやドリンクチケットをプレゼント" car.watch.impress.co.jp (in Japanese), 22 July 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
Entries For the 2026 Suzuka 8 Hours, the traditional domestic tryout system—used by Japanese teams who were not part of the full-season EWC grid—was abolished in favor of a new selection committee process composed of Mobilityland Corporation, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and the FIM EWC promoter. The maximum entry field was established at 60 teams, consisting of 20 seeded teams based on the 2025 results, and up to 20 teams selected through the new process. The first round of selection concluded on 12 December 2025 with ten teams earning entry rights. Final entry confirmations followed in additional selection rounds in early 2026."2026年鈴鹿8耐：トライアウト廃止＆新選考制度とは? 第1回選考で10チームが本戦切符獲得" news.webike.net (in Japanese), 11 December 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025."2026鈴鹿8耐の第1回選考会により新たに10チームが出場権を獲得" ridingsport.jp (in Japanese), 10 December 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
SDG Ducati Team Kagayama and Balz & Advance MC with Fujiki Kogyo withdrew their entries in February despite having been automatically granted the seeded entry based on the 2025 results. In May, Team Kagayama made a statement where they announced their official participation withdrawal from the 8 Hours endurance race, explaining their intent to focus fully on their All Japan JSB1000 season.
+Domestic entries Entry type Class Team Motorcycle Seeded entry EWC Honda HRC Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Yamaha Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 SDG Team Harc-Pro Honda Honda CBR1000RR-R Team ATJ with docomo Business Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Honda Asia Dream Racing with Astemo Honda CBR1000RR-R Sanmei Team Taro Plusone with SDG BMW M1000RR Marumae Team Kodama Yamaha YZF-R1 Honda Suzuka Racing Team Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Team BabyFace Titanium Power Yamaha YZF-R1 Bakuon RPT Nagano & RT Matsunaga Yamaha YZF-R1 Dog House & Tripoint Fuchs Silkolene Suzuki GSX-R1000R Team Sugai Racing Japan Honda CBR1000RR-R Honda Dream RT Sakurai Honda CBR1000RR-R SST Tone Team 4413 EVA 02 BMW BMW M1000RR Honda Kumamoto Racing & Hamamatsu Escargot Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Nichirin Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 RN65 Team38 Kawasaki ZX 10R Selection – Round 1 EWC Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R Shinsyuren with Totec BMW M1000RR Team Frontier BMW S1000RR Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto & Asaka Honda CBR1000RR-R Team Matsunaga KDC Gears Yamaha YZF-R1 RN65 SST Team Tatara Aprilia Aprilia RSV4 NCXX Racing with Riders Club Yamaha YZF-R1 Kawasaki Plaza Racing Team Kawasaki ZX 10R EXP Team Suzuki CN Challenge Suzuki GSX-R1000R Honda Tochigi Racing and Koyokai Dream RT Honda CBR1000RR-R Selection – Round 2 EWC KRP Sanyo Kogyoi & RS-Itoh Kawasaki ZX 10R S-Pulse Dream Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000R Verity & Fenice with Kirinjishi Yamaha YZF-R1 SST Moto Win Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R Team Kohsaka & Takahon Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R Motorcycles#27 EJ YIC Honda CBR1000RR-R EXP Honda Hamamatsu Escargot RT Honda CBR1000RR-R Sources:
Entry list Icon Class EWC Endurance World Championship SST Superstock EXP Experimental Class Team Motorcycle Tyre Blue Yellow Red 0 EXP Team Suzuki CN Challenge Suzuki GSX-R1000R Takuya Tsuda Ryo Mizuno Étienne Masson 1 EWC YART Yamaha Official EWC Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Karel Hanika Marvin Fritz Leandro Mercado 3 EWC Sanmei Team Taro Plusone with SDG BMW M1000RR Taro Sekiguchi Tatsuya Nakamura Keisuke Tanaka 4 EWC Tati Team AVA6 Racing Honda CBR1000RR Hugo Clere Mike Di Meglio Isaac Viñales 5 EWC F.C.C. TSR Honda France Honda CBR1000RR-R Alan Techer Corentin Perolari John McPhee 6 EWC ERC Endurance #6 BMW M1000RR Marcel Schrötter Kenny Foray Jan-Ole Jähnig 8 EWC Team Bolliger Switzerland #8 Kawasaki ZX-10R Nico Thöni Álex Toledo Xavier Artigas 11 EWC Kawasaki Webike Trickstar Kawasaki ZX-10RR Román Ramos Christian Gamarino Grégory Leblanc 12 EWC Yoshimura SERT Motul Suzuki GSX-R1000R Gregg Black Dan Linfoot Cocoro Atsumi 17 EWC Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R Kohta Nozane Taiga Hada Kohta Arakawa 19 SST Team Tatara Aprilia Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory Kazuki Watanabe Ruka Wada Akito Haga 20 EWC Honda Suzuka Racing Team Honda CBR1000RR-R Ben Young Genki Nakajima Maiku Watanuki 21 EWC Yamaha Factory Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Katsuyuki Nakasuga Jack Miller Andrea Locatelli 23 EWC KRP Sanyo Kogyo & RS-Itoh Kawasaki ZX-10R Yuto Sano Katsuto Sano Akira Yanagawa 25 SST Team Étoile BMW M1000RR Hikari Okubo Motoharu Ito Kaito Toba 26 EWC Verity & Fenice with Kirinjishi Yamaha YZF-R1 Shota Yokoyama Mitsuhiro Kuno Minori Sato 29 EWC Dog House & Tripoint Fuchs Silkolene Suzuki GSX-R1000R Keita Iwatani Eisuke Samura Toshiharu Oosuka 30 EWC Honda HRC Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Takumi Takahashi Jonathan Rea Somkiat Chantra 31 EWC Team Sugai Racing Japan Honda CBR1000RR-R Yoshiyuki Sugai Yasuhiro Matsukawa Varis Fleming 36 SST 3ART Best Of Bike Hamaguchi Yamaha YZF-R1 Lucas Mahias Loïc Arbel Robin Mulhauser 37 EWC BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team BMW M1000RR Markus Reiterberger Steven Odendaal Michael van der Mark 38 SST Champion-Hert Powered by MRP BMW M1000RR Bálint Kovács Jan Bühn Loris Cresson 40 EWC Team ATJ with NTT Docomo Business Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Satoru Iwata Kohki Suzuki Takuma Kunimine 41 SST Dafy Kaedear RAC41 Honda Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Takeshi Ishizuka Diego Poncet Kevin Manfredi 43 SST Sanrio Character Honda Kumamoto Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R Kazuhiro Kojima Yosuke Ide Toshiki Senda 45 EWC Shinsyuren with Totec BMW M1000RR Hinata Nakajima Kyosuke Okuda Hisami Higashimura 46 SST Motorcycles #27 EJ YIC Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Tsuna Nishinaka Atsushi Kawaguchi Takashi Maekawa 50 EWC Marumae Team Kodama Yamaha YZF-R1 Yuta Kodama Max Stauffer Takumi Takahashi 51 EXP Honda Hamamatsu Escargot RT with Dreamo Honda CBR1000RR-R Takumi Fukuda Syuu Yamato Kai Aota 52 SST NCXX Racing with Riders Club Honda CBR1000RR-R Tetsuta Nagashima Yudai Kamei Yuta Date 56 SST Team Kohsaka & Takahon Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Tatsuya Yamaguchi Rui Kusu Shogo Kawasaki 57 SST Himeji Nichirin Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 Masaki Adachi Sota Horii Motoaki Sawamura 58 SST Moto Win Racing Honda CBR1000RR-R Keisuke Tsukahara Yutaka Murase Shingo Suzuki 59 EWC Team BabyFace Titanium Power Yamaha YZF-R1 Shota Ite Rei Matsuoka Kazuma Tsuda 64 SST Kawasaki Plaza Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-10R Ryosuke Iwato Gun Mie Yosuke Nakayama 65 EWC Motobox Kremer Racing by 321 Yamaha YZF-R1 Twan Smits Lennox Lehmann Dirk Geiger 71 EWC Team Sakurai Honda Honda CBR1000RR-R Kazuki Ito Daijiro Hiura Ryusei Yamanaka 73 EWC SDG Team Harc-Pro Honda Honda CBR1000RR-R Yuki Kunii Teppei Nagoe Keito Abe 76 EWC AutoRace Ube Racing Team BMW M1000RR Naomichi Uramoto Sylvain Guintoli Hannes Soomer 77 SST Wójcik Racing Team #77 SST Honda CBR1000RR-R SP Óscar Gutierrez Jordi Torres Gabriel Giannini 78 EWC Honda Blue Helmets MSC Kumamoto & Asaka Honda CBR1000RR-R Hiromasa Okada Kei Tomie Aki Ito 83 SST Team38 Kawasaki ZX-10R Junpei Takatani Yoshiaki Nojima Seiichiro Morimoto 88 EWC Honda Asia Dream Racing with Astemo Honda CBR1000RR-R Nakarin Atiratphuvapat Khairul Idham Pawi Adenanta Putra 93 SST Tone Team4413 BMW BMW M1000RR Tomoya Hoshino Máté Számadó Kengo Nagao 95 EWC S-Pulse Dream Racing Suzuki Suzuki GSX-R1000R Sho Nishimura Jonas Folger Jérémy Guarnoni 99 EWC Elf Marc VDS Racing Team KM99 Yamaha YZF-R1 Randy de Puniet Florian Marino Alessandro Delbianco 111 EWC Team Matsunaga KDC x Gears Yamaha YZF-R1 Takumi Hane Takatsugu Sakai Masahiko Arakawa 112 EXP Honda Tochigi Racing & Kouyoukai Dream Racing Team Honda CBR1000RR-R Naoki Takahashi Takafumi Kato Helmi Azman 711 EWC Bakuon Team Nagano Yamaha YZF-R1 Shigenori Sakurayama Yuki Ito Ren Okabe 828 EWC Team Frontier BMW S1000RR Azlan Shah Ryosuke Katahira Sho Hasegawa Source:
Qualifying Qualifying results Overall ranking of qualifications are based on the average of the two best times per team. Averages in bold indicate fastest times of each class. Honda HRC's Jonathan Rea set the fastest individual lap time during the second qualifying session, with a 2:04.422.