24 Heures Motos – 2:45 – Black series for GMT … –

02:45 – Black series for GMT…

24 Heures Motos - 2:45 am - Black series for GMT ... -

Hard blow for the GMT: shortly before midnight, the Yamaha n ° 94 loses 7 precious minutes because of a defective taillight and falls shortly after at the turn of the Museum…

Hard blow for the GMT shortly before midnight: the rear light of the Yamaha n ° 94 is reported as defective by the race management.

Garry Mc Coy returns to the pits where the mechanics start to replace the light, but a short circuit forces them to also change the battery … Result, the GMT loses 7 precious minutes and finds itself in 4th position…

As announced by Dominique Meliand a little earlier, Suzuki n ° 1 returned to 3rd place, but it is Honda n ° 55 which races in 2nd position at 3 laps from Suzuki n ° 2 which still holds firmly in command of the race.

Christian Lavieille, the team manager of the n ° 55 Honda of National Motos, remains on his scoreboard: "Suzuki or Yamaha must win", he explains, speaking of SERT and GMT."We stick to our position, we lose 5 seconds by refueling and the performance of our bike is behind the lead machines, so we keep our pace while still monitoring the gaps with the 94 … do not fall asleep !"

Fall of Yamaha n ° 67 at 1:09 am, but Christelle Orsi manages to start again.

The infernal comeback of Suzuki n ° 1 is not over: at 1:15 am, Matthieu Lagrive takes second place ahead of Honda n ° 55! Obviously, his metacarpal fracture at Assen did not prevent him from maintaining the high pace necessary for such a rise. !

But the Honda n ° 55 in the hands of Frederic Protat does not let it go and gives a hard time to the Suzuki n ° 1 that Matthieu Lagrive has just left to Keiichi Kitagawa…

Big motivation for Racing Team 28: the Yamaha n ° 128, in 30th place, broke the gearbox at 10 p.m. and the whole team was working with great energy to continue the race despite everything !

After removing the engine then replacing the clutch, wheel, chain and gearbox, the mechanics put everything back together to try to start again! "We are here to build endurance, to go to the end, to finish !", warns Stephane Millochay, the particularly motivated team manager.

At Decibels 33, we also know a few small problems … First of all, an alternator problem occurring from 10:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. forces the battery and the alternator to be replaced during a relay, causing the Chevaliers to lose precious time. and his teammates…

Then, the breaking of a lifting diabolo also plays the spoilsport: it did not take less to calm the Knight, once again serene. !

Thus, after having passed the motorbike to his teammate Bernard Cuzin and having been undressed by his wife, the abominable Sergeï regains his strength by going for a drink at the Groland embassy, ​​where he confides in Moto-Net..

"In the very first stints I got very tired and the stint of over an hour killed me !"confess the sinister character."I had never ridden for an hour at the cleat with a track motorcycle on a circuit! I have to get used to it, that I save myself", he realizes."Now it’s starting to go, I manage to take a regular pace! There I learn, in Barcelona I continue to get in the bath but for me, the race I will play at the Bol !"

At 1:45 am, another hard blow for the GMT: the MV Agusta n ° 81 and the Yamaha n ° 94 fell following a collision during an overtaking at the turn of the Museum !

The GMT R1 sets off again and returns to the pit to repair the damage and 10 minutes later it is Garry Mc Coy who sets off again on the handlebars of the 94 shortly before the mid-race mark at 3:00 … The last seconds of this stoppage are particularly intense due to a recalcitrant start, but the Yam manages to start again when it is only one lap ahead of Kawasaki n ° 8 of Bolliger, in fifth position…

Note also the abandonment of the Yamaha n ° 121 of the Full Power Competition team at 11:09 pm due to engine failure.

Eric MICHEL and Marcus HIMSELF

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