5:46 p.m. – SERT displays the color !

From the first seconds of the race, Suzuki n ° 1 took the lead ahead of Sebastien Gimbert on Yamaha n ° 94 GMT and Suzuki n ° 2.

From the first seconds of the race, the Suzuki n ° 1 took the lead ahead of Sebastien Gimbert on the Yamaha n ° 94 of GMT.

The second official Suzuki did not take long to follow in the footsteps of its partner and Dominique Meliand’s two motorcycles were a pocket handkerchief ahead of the GMT Yamaha. The trio of shock takes off in the first laps and widens the gap with the rest of the troop…

On the 5th lap, the No.94 Yamaha keeps up with the two Suzuki’s with only 682 thousandths of a gap. The # 7 Yamaha of Austria Racing Team manages to take third place but Sebastien Gimbert regains the advantage before the end of the first hour of the race, remaining 32 seconds behind the leader.

Official Kawasaki # 111 hangs within a second of 94, followed by Suzuki # 72 from Junior Team and Honda # 55 from National Motos.

After an hour of racing, the Yamaha n ° 7 is 7th, the Kawasaki n ° 8 of Bolliger is 8th and the Yamaha n ° 33 of Decibels Endurance is 33rd in the hands of Bernard Cuzin !

A first hour of racing that ended in disaster for Suzuki n ° 1: Keiichi Kitagawa slipped from behind and was violently ejected in the bend of the Museum. When the race resumed, suspended behind the safety car, Suzuki n ° 2 was in the lead, but now followed by Honda n ° 55. The # 94 Yamaha sits back in third place less than a second behind its predecessor but both almost a minute behind the leader on lap 43.

In Superstock, the n ° 83 Kawasaki from Maccio Racing driven by Sebastien De Rosa leads the way in the opening laps. Appearing in 8th place in the general classification after about thirty minutes, it will always remain in the top 10 during the first hour but is robbed of the first place in the category by the Suzuki n ° 72 led by Thomas Metro, who takes 5th place overall at 5:00 p.m..

New racing suspension following the fall of Suzuki n ° 10 from Infini Team and Yamaha n ° 199 from Team Acropolis Zone Rouge.

The Kawasaki n ° 111 takes second place ahead of the 55 and the 94 wheel in wheel which lead a merciless battle a few hundredths apart and will soon pass the 111 which will also be overtaken by Sebastien Scarnato on the handlebars of the R1 n ° 7 !

Mathieu Lagrive, set off again on the handlebars of Suzuki n ° 1, gradually climbed back from 42nd place to 33rd on 60th lap. Suzuki n ° 82 fell at 4:50 p.m. and driver changed for n ° 55: Frederic Protat passed the baton to Daniel Ribalta-Bosch.

At 5 p.m., Garry Mc Coy takes control of Yamaha n ° 94 but at 5:24 p.m. he passes successively by Kawasaki n ° 111 and Honda n ° 55! GMT is in 7th position … "I will not give a race instruction because our only objective will be victory", explained Christophe Guyot shortly before the start."Garry Mc Coy misses a bit of testing on our Yamaha R1 and doesn’t know endurance at all, but he has progressed steadily and intelligently since arriving at Le Mans".

Great fear of Vincent Philippe on the handlebars of Suzuki n ° 1 at the aspi of Yamaha n ° 99 of Acropolis, but he manages to stay in the saddle and continues his ascent from 29th place … Abandonment of Suzuki n ° 65 at 17:34 on clutch and gearbox problem, then Honda n ° 91 of Dap Moto … Huge fall at very high speed of Suzuki n ° 96 in the Dunlop curve, fortunately without gravity for Alexandre Perrault…

Eric MICHEL and Marcus HIMSELF

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