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24H Moto: who will be the 2013 endurance world champion ?

24 Heures Motos - 24H Moto: who will be the 2013 endurance world champion? -

The 2013 24H Moto, the last round of the endurance world championship this weekend at Le Mans with 40 points to win for the winner, will crown the 2013 world champion … SERT (Suzuki), currently leading the provisional with 84 points, will he win his 13th world crown – and his 4th in a row ? GMT94 (Yamaha), third with 60 points,…

The 2013 24H Moto, the last round of the endurance world championship this weekend at Le Mans with 40 points to win for the winner, will crown the 2013 world champion … SERT (Suzuki), currently leading the provisional with 84 points, will he win his 13th world crown – and his 4th in a row? GMT94 (Yamaha), third with 60 points, will he manage to catch up and surpass his Austrian colleague from YART (Yamaha), currently second with 71 points? ?

Suzuki or Yamaha ?

On the prize list, SERT is the favorite with its 12 world championship titles, including three consecutive in, and. But the two Yamaha n ° 7 and n ° 94 – whose last victory at Le Mans dates back to and respectively – will do everything to interrupt not only this succession of world titles of Suzuki, but also the impressive series of victories of Kawasaki at Le Mans. : the Greens – who only compete in the Bol d’Or and the 24H Moto du Mans – have won the last three editions of the Le Mans event in, and !

Mathematically speaking, two other teams will still be able to claim the world title this weekend: by winning the 40 points of victory, Team RC2L (Suzuki), and Bolliger Team Switzerland (Kawasaki), can be crowned world champions 2013 Except that with their 40 points behind the leaders, it would be necessary for one of the two to win at Le Mans without either SERT, YART or GMT94 scoring a single point (therefore none of the three does not finish in the first 20) … Suffice to say that the odds of the bet are high !

When will a first European victory be ?

Sebastien Gimbert: "finish the season as well as possible"

"After the crashes at the Bol d’Or and Suzuka, the championship is out of reach for us but the important thing is to finish the season as well as possible", explains Sebastien Gimbert, driver of the official BMW n ° 99 alongside Sylvain Barrier, Australian Josh Waters and American Jake Zemke.

"For the team, BMW, Michelin and my team-mates, the victory would be a great reward. We don’t need to be the fastest in every session and go for pole. We have to focus on setting it correctly. the bike to finish the race as well as possible. Our machine is capable of doing that. We have a new engine this weekend, improved electronics and the team has made further progress on the chassis at Oschersleben. We are well prepared, confident, but we must not forget that a 24 hour race always comes with surprises. Anything can happen. Our job will be to try to avoid mistakes and problems, to manage the weather which can always be very variable at Le Mans and finish as well as possible. On the podium, and if possible on the first step "…

For the prestige of the victory at Le Mans, other teams also aim to succeed Kawasaki on the prize list: National Motos (Honda) would like to renew its performance of, without forgetting the Honda TT Legends team and especially the BMW Motorrad France Team Thevent which, after a disappointing start to the season in (fall and abandonment) and (fall and abandonment), seems to have regained its marks in finishing 2nd.

MNC readers – who, as everyone knows, have a little more memory than others – may recall that no "non-Japanese" motorcycle has ever won the 24 Hours Moto since the inception of the event in 1978: 11 victories for Suzuki and Kawasaki, 10 for Suzuki and 3 for Yamaha. Nice challenge for the German manufacturer, no ?

The 24H Moto live with Mehdiator

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In Superstock, Starteam PAM-Racing (Suzuki) will try to keep their victory in 2012 and straighten the bar at Le Mans after their retirement in Germany. Leader of the FIM Endurance World Cup for Superstock machines and title holder, Penz 13.com (BMW) will have to contain the assaults of Team Motor Events (Suzuki) and Junior Team Suzuki, 18 points separating these first three of the world ranking.

Germans under pressure in Superstock

But Team Louit Moto 33 (Kawasaki) also has the means to come and disrupt the favorites in the category: very successful at the Bol d’Or and at the tests at Oschersleben, this strong and fast crew had bad luck during the race. Note also in this category the official commitment of Renaud Lavillenie: the 2012 Olympic champion and 2013 vice-world champion in pole vault will team up with Stephane Mezard, David Dumain and Philippe Monneret.

Entrants in the Open category

  • Repli-K Racing Protwin (Serge Scherer, Bernard Peyron, Sebastien Serra and Jose Lattuada) – Ducati 1199 Panigale n ° 4
  • Scuderia 2 Roues (Philippe Teissier, Lionel Ancelin, Herve Royer and Pierre-François Guillemard) – Ducati 1199 Panigale n ° 17
  • Leek Racing Team (Christophe Bellembois, Stephane Leroy, Pierre Henry and Jerôme Zakine): Ducati 1199 Panigale n ° 25
  • Metiss JLC Moto (Vincent Houssin, Camille Hedelin and Emmanuel Cheron): Metiss 1000
  • RS Speedbikes Racing (Lars Albrecht, Filip Altendorfer, Rico Lowe and Tobias Kollan): BMW S1000RR

Finally in the Open category, which has 5 entered this year, the Scuderia Zone Rouge victorious in 2012 on the Ducati 1199 Panigale n ° 82 will not take the start..

In the absence of the Ducati 1199 from Scuderia Zone Rouge, victorious last year, the Open category will consist of three Ducati 1199 Panigales, a BMW S1000RR and of course the timeless Metiss n ° 45.

Of the 60 teams entered for the 2013 24 Hours Moto, only 56 will be allowed to start after qualifying … So who will be the 2013 endurance world champion? To your predictions on MNC: stay connected !

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