Bol d’Or: SRC Kawasaki in pole position at Le Castellet ahead of the two official Yamaha
After dominating the first free practice (1’59.378), the first qualifying session yesterday (1’58.858 at the average of the three pilots) and the second qualifying session this morning (1’58.278), the ZX-10R n ° 11 of the SRC Kawasaki team (Greg Leblanc, Matthieu Lagrive, Fabien Forêt and Erwan Nigon) will start from pole position for the Bol d’Or 2015 tomorrow …
After dominating the first free practice (1’59.378), the first qualifying session yesterday (1’58.858 at the average of the three pilots) and the second qualifying session this morning (1’58.278), the ZX-10R n ° 11 of the team SRC Kawasaki (Greg Leblanc, Matthieu Lagrive, Fabien Forêt and Erwan Nigon) will start from pole position for the Bol d’Or 2015 tomorrow at 3:00 pm on the (83).
The two official Yamaha n ° 7 of the YART and n ° 94 of the GMT will start respectively in second and third position of this 79th Bol d’Or – which already promises to be particularly …
The No. 30 SERT Suzuki, currently leading the championship with a 23-point lead but which suffers from a top speed deficit, will start 5th behind the No. 111 Honda Racing (which retains its fourth place despite the fall of Sebastien Gimbert).
The S1000RR of the BMW Motorrad France Penz13 team (Bastien Mackels, Markus Reiterberger and Pedro Vallcaneras), very fast (more than 330 km / h in the Mistral straight!) Ranks sixth on the starting line thanks to Markus Reitenberger’s time. (1’57.253, absolute best time in qualifying).
Well started, the Yamaha n ° 7 of the YART will have to do without Ivan Silva, victim of a broken leg during his fall in free practice, while Max Neukirchner is still recovering…
"Nothing to lose"
But "we have nothing to lose here so we are committed to victory or nothing", warns Mandy Kainz, team manager of the Austrian team 9th in the championship who can no longer claim the world title..
Also excluded from the race for the title of world endurance champion in 2015 – which will probably be played between SERT and GMT94 – the SRC Kawasaki team believes it has "a great potential with a very homogeneous trio of drivers".
"We could be even more efficient in qualifying but we will devote the second session to adjusting the machine for the race in order to have a fast and easy machine", explained before the second qualifying session Gilles Stafler, team manager of the Greens in endurance..
Cautious on the eve of "this race which promises to be testing for the mechanics", the GMT94 for its part opted for "a wise configuration and close to the origin".
"Painful moment"
Third yesterday and this morning despite a breakdown in the first corners, the Yamaha n ° 94 (in) will start in third position behind its Austrian colleague n ° 7 of the YART.
"It was a little painful moment for the team because we did not know if the failure was serious or not and all the possible scenarios are imagined", explains Christophe Guyot, team manager of GMT: "in fact it was an electrical terminal that we had to reconnect correctly. It’s a bad thing for a good because we realized that this terminal was placed in a somewhat delicate place. There was no possibility for it to break down during the race , but initially yes. When fixing the fairing we can unplug it, that’s what happened ".
Premier Bol d’Or…
The C.C Moto Racing Endurance team, with whom we had lived from the inside, finished 49th on the starting grid of their very first Bol d’Or.
The riders of the Kawasaki n ° 43 (Clovis Chevallier, Sergio Nangeroni and Pierre Lemos) gave their all under the guidance of their team manager Matthieu Ferret, but "this is going really really fast, Barcelona next door was the holidays ! ", Pierre Lemos tells Site…
To be continued on MNC: stay connected !
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