11:13 p.m. – Suzuki n ° 1 continues its ascent

After the abandonment of Kawasaki n ° 111, Honda n ° 55 occupied 3rd place while Suzuki n ° 1 in 4th position continued its comeback in the hands of a supercharged Matthieu Lagrive. The night will be hot !

Exit the Kawasaki n ° 111, which despite a promising start to the race had to give up third place to the Honda n ° 55 … "In the fall, the distribution has shifted: the motorcycle starts but does not turn correctly", explains Christian Bourgeois, the team manager of the Kawasaki France team..

"In addition, with the bent swingarm, the chassis is distorted and it takes 3 hours of work … Added to the hour and a quarter delay and the double fracture of Patrick Piot’s hand, nothing was more. playable", he regrets … It’s abandonment.

At 8:58 p.m., the No. 2 Suzuki, still in the lead, had completed 204 laps while its SERT twin sister, the No. 1 Suzuki, continued to climb the rankings with tenacity..

For the Grolandais Knight on the Yamaha n ° 33 on the other hand, the stints of more than one hour are "too long". After having expressed his dissatisfaction to his team manager Christophe Herriberry, the abominable Serge Nuques isolated himself a little to calm down …"Attention, currently he is untouchable", warns his wife Rachel … A Grolandaise tactic of destabilization of the team, no doubt !

In the eighth hour of racing, the three leading motorcycles are respectively one lap apart, followed by the No. 1 Suzuki two laps apart from the No. 55 Honda. Four laps from the lead machine, Suzuki n ° 1 turns faster (1’41.122 for Matthieu Lagrive against 1’41.675 for Julien Da Costa). Mathieu Lagrive does not spare his GSX-R and signs the lap record in the race in 1’40 "448.

"We will have to be patient, but number 1 will rise again !", promises Dominique Meliand, the boss of SERT:" the rise in the three is probable, but to take again the lead, it seems rather difficult to me"he admits.

"As for n ° 2, nothing is won yet: with only one lap, we cannot afford to slacken the pace even by a tenth, otherwise we will be behind at halfway. !", adds carefully the team manager who knows better than anyone the vagaries of motorcycle endurance…

The night will be long! Fifth overall, six laps from n ° 1, the n ° 72 Suzuki of the Le Mans Sud students is still leading the Superstocks. Maccio Racing’s n ° 83 Kawasaki, which most worried Damien Saulnier, the team manager of the Junior Team, is eighth overall and second Stock two laps from n ° 72.

For her part, Magali Langlois on the Yamaha n ° 67 of the 3A Racing Team is satisfied: "we are 40th, so we have gained 12 places compared to our starting position! If it continues like this, it’s fine !"

Eric MICHEL and Marcus HIMSELF

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