Abandonment of GMT 94 !

Dramatic change at 5.13 pm: Sebastien Gimbert, approaching the Dunlop, suffered a mechanical problem on the handlebars of the No. 94 Yamaha, then in first position. Sebastien starts a tour of the circuit with a stroller … and suddenly abandons his motorcycle…

Everything seemed settled like music paper: the Honda n ° 55 and the Kawasaki n ° 11 being out of the race: everything had to be played between the Yamaha n ° 94 and the two Suzuki of the SERT who are leading the race under a sun that seems determined to pierce the clouds. It was counting without the hazards specific to motor sports in general and motorcycle endurance in particular….

Flashback: Sebastien Gimbert continues to prance in the lead after 49 laps of the race in front of the two SERT machines, while the Suzuki n ° 18 of the Sapeurs pompiers refueled and took to the track with Guillaume Pialoux at the controls.

Sebastien Gimbert reacts to the return of the Suzuki n ° 2 by setting two successive lap records: after almost two hours of racing, the Yamaha and the SERT Suzuki are the only machines to run below 1’42.

Suzuki n ° 1 passes its little sister at the start of the 62nd lap: Mathieu Lagrive is forcing himself to try to catch up on Sebastien Gimbert who is now almost a minute ahead !

The official SERT rider took the opportunity to sign the best lap in the race on the handlebars of the Suzuki n ° 1 in 1’40.625 while the best Honda is classified in a satisfactory 11th place thanks to the RMT21 team.

Mathieu Lagrive on the handlebars of the n ° 1 continues his momentum and hangs lap record on lap record, to now turn 2 seconds faster than the Yamaha of GMT 94 !

It was then that Sebastien Gimbert approached the Dunlop with an approximate trajectory … A real twist: at 5.13 p.m., the Yamaha engine let out smoke and Sebastien was forced to pull over to the side….

Worse for Christophe Guyot’s team: the leader of the event having just passed the pit straight, he will have to complete a full lap pushing his machine…

Visibly annoyed by this twist of fate, worn out by effort and tension, Sebastien Gimbert only pushes his machine a few tens of meters, before moving away more than ten meters from his machine, signifying pure abandonment and single from the brilliant stable of Val-de-Marne…

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