MOTOR RACING

Japan’s Takuya Kurosawa, driving a Lola T93 Mugen, defeated Andrew Scott of Britain by 15 seconds to win the fifth leg of the 10-race All Japan F-3000 Championship at Sendai. Kurosawa, 31, is the first Japanese driver to win a F-3000 series race this season.

Ross Cheever of the United States, who started from the pole position, was fourth.

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American Doug Polen and New Zealand’s Aaron Slight teamed up to beat American Scott Russell and Briton Terry Rymer by 0.288 seconds in the 8-Hour Endurance motorcycle race at Suzuka, Japan.