Another SERT victory at Le Mans

3:00 p.m. The Suzuki n ° 2 of SERT wins ahead of the Yamaha n ° 94 of GMT at the end of a fierce weekend full of twists and turns. 3rd place for the Yamaha n ° 38 and 4th for the Suzuki n ° 72 which won the Stocksport category. Low hat !

The No. 2 Suzuki, led by Chambon, Kitagawa and Nowland, won superbly this weekend at Le Mans after a race full of twists and turns..

Stephane Chambon crossed the line with fanfare before shedding a discreet tear, exhausted but visibly in heaven. "I also have a thought for the GMT", specifies the pilot:"I congratulate them for what they did, because they really made our lives difficult! But this is the race"…

The Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT) led by Dominique Meliand thus achieved the pass of three by winning Le Mans for the 3rd consecutive time (the 2001 edition was won by Christophe Guyot himself on his 100% private GSXR).

Disappointment of course, but above all fair play within GMT 94, which had an irreproachable race and which really could believe, throughout the night and until the last hours of the morning, in a well-deserved victory. But it’s the hard law of the race: "if we did not accept disappointment, we should not engage in competition, Jean-Claude Olivier tells us soberly at the end of the race, wearing dark glasses, in the GMT 94 stand. "And there will be other trials !, continues the boss of Yamaha France.

Same optimism with Christophe Guyot, who "promises to win a Yamaha here and soon !"

For his part, Sebastien Gimbert gives us "see you next weekend in Assen (first round of the World Endurance Championship in the Netherlands, Editor’s note) because fate decided otherwise today, but I will not let go !"

Bravo to all the competitors, authors of an admirable performance. Congratulations to SERT and sincere encouragement to GMT 94 for this promising endurance season…

Special mentions for Zef Enault, who leads Team MJ’s Aprilia n ° 70 like a rocket and is one of the few pilots who have turned more than nine hours in total (09:36:25), Magali Langlois, the only woman involved and who spent a total of almost 8 hours on the handlebars of Yamaha n ° 67 of 3A Racing Team (Superproduction), and Julien Diguet of Stand 41 Adrenateam (Stocksport), who has a record driving time of nearly 10 hours (09:58 : 53) !

And finally thank you to those who stayed on Moto-Net to experience this 27th edition of the 24h of Le Mans motorcycle live from the Bugatti circuit, sometimes retranscribed a bit hard !

Eric MICHEL

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