24 Heures Motos – Space Moto 37, 11th in the endurance world championship! –

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Space Moto 37, 11th in the endurance world championship !

24 Heures Motos - Space Moto 37, 11th in the endurance world championship! -

A 100% volunteer team, Space Moto 37, has just discreetly achieved at Le Mans a feat that many official teams – from Sarthe, Austria, Germany … – would have dreamed of: finishing the 24H Moto 2013 in 10th position in the EWC category (21st scratch) !

A 100% volunteer team, Space Moto 37, has just discreetly achieved at Le Mans a feat that many official teams – from Sarthe, Austria, Germany … – would have dreamed of: finishing the 2013 24H Moto in 10th position in the EWC category (21st scratch) !

On the handlebars of Suzuki n ° 37, the pilots Julien Gallerand (blue), Yannick Nouvellon (white), Charles Roches (red) and Franck Deneque (reserve) have been able to face the many difficulties which have marked this 36th edition….

55th qualified … out of 56

This team based in Tours (37) started endurance racing "in 2011", remembers Guillaume Lebert, communications manager. The team then bears the name of Adrenatem Esprit Motos. "We register 15 days before the Bol d’Or, we start last but we finish 16th in EWC: unexpected!"

Seduced by the experience, the Touraine repeat the following year and compete in the two French rounds of the world championship. Result: 12th EWC (21st scratch) and 11th (16th scratch).

As a result, the "99% Touraine and 100% volunteer" team entered the championship this year (excluding Suzuka 8H) and finished close to the top 10 in the standings (11th in the 2013 World Endurance Championship): (22nd scratch), and (21st scratch).

But naturally – endurance requires – this fine performance was not without difficulty … First, the tests and qualifying proved to be complicated: a fall on Thursday, then a shock absorber that gave up the ghost during the night tests … The fork and shock absorber preparer Eric Delcamp provided them with one, but all the settings had to be redone because they had been driving an Ohlins until now..

"A small team made up of friends and colleagues"

"We had to settle it during the second qualifying session", specifies Guillaume, which explains why "we qualified very, very far: 55th out of 56 crews!"

After this qualifying narrowly in 1’44.442, the difficulties continued in the race with in particular problems of brakes and shifter, problems with the fuel pump on two occasions, a change of tank, then an injection rail "which us loose a few hours before arrival and that we change in 7 minutes! "

In the final classification of the 24H Moto du Mans 2013 "we finished in front of the Suzuki n ° 1 of SERT", reminds not without pride Space Moto 37, but above all "in front of the official BMW n ° 99 and the official Honda TT Legends, just behind the Team 18 of the Firemen! "

2014 target: Top 10 in EWC … and Enduro du Touquet !

The objectives of Team Space Moto 37 are now to "get into the top 10" of the. "We must not be pretentious, we are a small team made up of friends and colleagues, with a lot of progress to be made on the track (better times, even if we were very consistent)", Guillaume Lebert confides to Site: "in the pits we are at the top, nothing to correct, because despite our few unexpected stops we ended up with the same number of stops as the leading bikes!" (25 stops like the Kawasaki SRC n ° 11, NDLR)

But in the shorter term, the Touraine team will embark for Le Touquet in February: a great first, "to keep in contact with two-wheelers all winter". Two of the Le Mans drivers will be present (Charles Roches and Yannick Nouvellon) as well as the mechanic Alexandre Berthon, who is "the only one to know having already done it last year" … To be continued on MNC: stay connected !

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