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Endurance starts: sprint across a track, jump onto a bike and race off among 50+ other bikes. Nerves of steel required

Kawasaki vs Yamaha, Rea vs Van der Mark - the battle we were all expecting

Leon Haslam, waiting

Jonathan Rea, waiting

PJ Jacobsen, waiting

Michael van der Mark, waiting. Endurance racing is hours of waiting punctuated by an hour of excitement

Endurance starts - even more terrifying in the wet

Honda got beaten at their home track again. HRC will have to up their game again in 2019

Nightfall

Bradley Ray shaking up a storm in BSB, making an impression at Suzuka

The key to endurance racing: trying to pace yourself at the limit for 8 hours or more

Some are better at it than others, of course

Why put yourself through all that torture? For this: Michael van der Mark celebrates Yamaha's 4th straight victory with Katsuyuki Nakasuga

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