The top 10 qualifying shootout for the Suzukaꦕ 8 Hours has been cancelled due to heavy rain which sees defending chamꦡpions #21 Yamaha Factory Racing Team handed pole position on provisional times.

With Suzuka hit by a typhoon throughout Saturday, both the final practice session﷽ and top 10 qualifying trial have been canned given the unsafe track conditions with heavy rain soaking the iconic Japanese circuit.

It m🌊eans starting positions for the top 10, as well as the full grid, have been decided by the provisional qualifying times, with the #21 Yamaha Factory Racing Team of Alex Lowes, Michael van der Mark and Katsuyuki Nakasuga taking pole position with an advantage of just 0.014s.

The #10 Kawasaki Racing Team Suzuka 8H squad of Leon Haslam, Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea will line up in second place after just missing out ahead of the #33 Red Bull Honda trio of Taku𓆏mi Takahashi, Ryuichi Kiyonari and Stefan Bradl.

The #634 MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO Honda outfit of Xavi Fores, Dominique Aegerter and Ryo Mizuno take fourth position ahead of factory Suzuki effort #12 Yoshimura Suzuki Motul Racing of Sylvain Guintoli, Yukio Kagayama and Kꦏa🥀zuki Watanabe.

Leading full-time Endurance World Championship contenders #7 YART Yamaha will start from sixth place with Broc Parkes, Marvin Fritz and Niccolo Canepa ahead of rivals #1 FCC TSR Honda France wit🦹h Josh Hook, Freddy Foray and Mike Di Meglio.

The #090 au Teluru SAG RT Honda squad of Kosuke Akiyoshi, Tetsuta Nagashima and Taiga Hada line up an impressive eighth place with the #95 S-Pulse Dream Racing IAI Suzuki of Tommy Bridewell and Bradley Ray in ninth and the #19 KYB Moriwaki Racing Honda of Yuki Takahashi, Tomoyoshi Koyama and Troy Herfoss in 10^th place.

The 2019 Suzuka 8 Hours gets underway on Sunday at 11:30 local time, after a 45-minute warm-up, with racing ending in darkness at 19:30. The race marks the final round of the 2ꦓ018-2019 Endurance World Championship.