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24 Heures Motos 2015: Kawasaki on provisional pole

24 Heures Motos - 24 Heures Motos 2015: Kawasaki on provisional pole -

At the end of the first qualifying sessions, thanks to Fabien Foret’s "cannonball" lap (1’36”900!) And the average times of the three pilots, the official Kawasaki SRC n ° 11 – which competes in this race. year the entire championship – takes provisional pole position in the 38th 24H Motos, the opening round of the endurance world championship …

At the end of the first qualifying sessions, thanks to Fabien Foret’s "cannonball" lap (1’36”900!) And the average times of the three pilots, the official Kawasaki SRC n ° 11 – which competes in this race. year the entire championship – takes the provisional pole position of the 38th 24H Motos, this weekend’s opening round at Le Mans.

Sports program of the 24 Heures Motos 2015

Wednesday April 15

  • 9:30 am to 4:30 pm: administrative and technical checks

Thursday April 16

  • 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m .: free practice
  • 17h00-18h50: qualifying practice 1
  • 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.: night practice

Friday April 17th

  • 11:20 a.m.-1: 10 p.m.: qualifying practice 2

Saturday April 18

  • 10:30 am-11:15am: warm-up
  • 3:00 p.m .: departure

Sunday April 19

  • 3:00 p.m .: arrival

    After dominating free practice with a time of 1’37”418 (ahead of Kawasaki n ° 11 and Yamaha n ° 7), the BMW n ° 13 in the hands of Reiterberger among the riders n ° 1 confirmed with a stopwatch from 1’37”149.

    But from the second session, Mathieu Lagrive on the Kawasaki slammed a 1’37”125, before his teammate Fabien Foret dropped below the 1’37 ” bar: 1’36”900 during the taxiing of drivers no. 3, averaging 155.48 km / h.

    Foret almost broke the Bugatti Circuit’s absolute record during the 24 Heures Motos, still held since 2012 by Julien da Costa in 1’36”826, also on Kawasaki. "The absolute track record is 1’32”042, a time set by Marc Marquez last year when he took pole position in MotoGP (read again, Editor’s note), but no comparison can be made between the two categories of machines ", specifies the ACO.

    With an average of the three pilots of 1’37”220, the Kawasaki n ° 11 is ahead of the Yamaha n ° 7 Monster Energy, the Honda Racing n ° 111, the Suzuki n ° 30 of the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT) and the BMW n ° 13 of Penz13 BMW Motorrad France, while the Yamaha n ° 94, which nicely redesigned the "4" of its 94 by mixing it with the "1" due to its title of world champion (opposite) , is content for the moment with the 9th time because of the fall of his star driver, David Checa.

    "The qualifying session did not go as planned," regrets Christophe Guyot, GMT team manager. “David went to the crash during his session, luckily he didn’t hurt himself more. We didn’t want to ride the race bike and had to fix it during the session. So Kenny only got very few laps to set a stopwatch with a slightly damaged motorcycle (in particular the traction control which did not work …). He still secured his position, just like Mathieu. We would have liked to make the entry bike shine game, but the race is far from over ".

    Dominique Meliand: "our strengths lie elsewhere"

    "Obviously, I would have liked to have reached the 1.37 mark. But we are finally in our place in practice, in 4th position", confides Dominique Meliand, team manager of SERT.

    "Our strengths lie elsewhere", continues the great leader of endurance who intends to regain his "title of world champion this year:" endurance of Dunlop tires, speed in our mechanical interventions in the race, consistency and experience of our pilots. And I cannot repeat it enough: a 24 hour race is a very long time. So much can happen! "

    In Superstock, the performance of the day is to the credit of Julien Enjolras on the Kawasaki n ° 4 of Tati Team Beaujolais Racing which largely dominated this category in 1’38”604. But it was the Qatar Endurance Racing Team (Kawasaki n ° 95) which took the best average time (1’38”939) and the sixth absolute.

    In the Open, the Metiss n ° 45 dominated the debates thanks to Christophe Michelsignant’s best time of 1’40”805, the average of the three drivers standing at 1’41”582.

    The second qualifying practice sessions take place this morning from 11:20 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. To be continued on MNC: stay connected !

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