• 2015.4.4 SUZUKI ASIAN CHALLENGE successfully ends the Official ARRC Test

  

   

   

  The SUZUKI ASIAN CHALLENGE, an addition to the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship (ARRC) from this season, held its first official event by participating in the Official Test of the Championship in Sepang International Circuit.

  SUZUKI ASIAN CHALLENGE is a rider development program for SUZUKI riders in Asia, and is produced and operated by Yukio Kagayama. The participants in this series will be given the chance to step-up to the Supersports 600 in ARRC, national champions in Europe and Japan, and to MotoGP in the future. All riders will be provided with the SUZUKI FU150s on Dunlop tires to race in this SUZUKI one-make category. It will be held in 5 venues in 2015.

  The official test was held on April 1st and 2nd at Sepang International Circuit North Track, where the opening round of the ARRC will be held. 17 riders from 9 countries, namely India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam attended the test. Although there were riders that never rode the SUZUKI FU150’s nor ran Sepang, all 17 riders qualified to participate in the series.

  The opening round of the 2015 ARRC SUZUKI ASIAN CHALLENGE will be held at from April 17-19 at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia.

  Yukio Kagayama | General Manager
  “I am happy that the SUZUKI ASIAN CHALLENGE finally has started. We have been planning this to provide the route for Asian riders to race in a small engine motorcycle up to MotoGP. I would like to thank the sponsors and parties involved to help us make this happen. Although this was our first outing, all 17 riders showed that they are well qualified to race in the series, and also am happy that we were able to finish the test with no major injuries.

  The qualities of the riders are that of high standard, and wish that the riders, through this sereies would be able to become a rider that can compete in world championship levels.

  We only have two more weeks to the opening round, but will do my best to finish the final preparations. I sincerely hope for everyone to support us with warm eyes.”

  Hideyuki Ogata | Rider Coach
  “Since this was the first outing, we started with little information about the riders, but I found in the two days of testing that each and everyone of them has the potential to become a world class rider. By the end of the second day, the level of the riders definitely improved, and I am sure that we can expect more from them in the future. We can expect to see close racing with the SUZUKI FU150’s. I look forward to teach the young riders what they need to learn and give them my full support.

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