Suzuki Endurance Racing Team will start its world title defence at the opening
round of the 2016 World Endurance Championship in Le Mans, France from fourth
position on the grid.
Following a positive pre-season test schedule,
which included topping the timesheets at the Le Mans pre-event shakedown
recently with riders Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Etienne Masson, the
14-time World Champions spent free practice and today’s qualifying sessions
getting the GSX-R1000 dialled-in for 24 hours of gruelling racing that is
expected to take place under mixed weather conditions.
A total of 57
teams, and more than 200 riders in the EWC and Superstock classes, are entered
for tomorrow’s first of four rounds; and which gets underway at 15:00hrs local
time.
Following this afternoon’s qualifying, Team Manager Dominique
Meliand explained SERT’s approach to free practice and qualifying. He said: “We
took a studious approach to qualifying to give our bike every chance of crossing
the finish line first at 3pm on Sunday.”
With three GSX-R1000s in the
top-10 today, Team April Moto Motors Events riders Gregg Black, Gregory Fastre
and Alex Cudlin scored seventh position on the grid with 2015 Superstock class
runners-up, Junior Team LMS Suzuki (Baptiste Guittet, Romain Maitre and Robin
Camus 10th and second-fastest of the SST teams.
Le Mans
Qualifying Results: 1 Penz13.com BMW Motorrad (BMW) 1:38.201, 2 SRC
Kawasaki (Kawasaki) 1:38.317, 3 YART Yamaha EWC (Yamaha) 1:38.932, 4
Suzuki Endurance Racing Team – Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle, Etienne
Masson – (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:39.252, 5 GMT94 Yamaha (Yamaha) 1:39.302,
6 Honda Endurance Racing (Honda) 1:39.698, 7 Team April Moto Motors
Events - Gregg Black, Gregory Fastre, Alex Cudlin - (Suzuki GSX-R1000)
1:39.707, 8 Louit Moto 33 Traqueur (Kawasaki) 1:39.854, 9 Team Bolliger
Switzerland (Kawasaki) 1:40.059, 10 Junior Team LMS Suzuki – Baptiste
Guittet, Romain Maitre, Robin Camus – (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:40.139.
Abonnieren
Kommentare zum Post (Atom)
CZECH GP - Gaviota Aspar Team starts the first triple-header on top
AVIOTA ASPAR TEAM STARTS THE FIRST TRIPLE-HEADER ON TOP ...
-
Valencia to be replaced by Brno, with the season finale changed to the British Grand Prix Thursday, 28 March 2019 The 2019 ...
-
AVIOTA ASPAR TEAM STARTS THE FIRST TRIPLE-HEADER ON TOP ...
-
Aron Canet arrives in Brno in fourth place in his Moto2 debut season, while teammate Hafizh Syahrin hopes to recover from the Jer...
Keine Kommentare:
Kommentar veröffentlichen