WSBK – 58.9 to Carole: Jules Cluzel didn’t believe it, so he did! – Used YAMAHA

58.9 to Carole: Jules Cluzel didn’t believe it, so he did it !

WSBK - 58.9 to Carole: Jules Cluzel didn't believe it, so he did! - Used YAMAHA

After his lap of 0’59.266 yesterday, the GMT94 rider in World Supersport does it again today with a new absolute record of 0’58.946 on the handlebars of his Yamaha R6! Interview.

"The last time I drove at Carole, it was on a 125 which was picking up 100 km / h in the stretch!" Remembers Jules Cluzel who has just beaten in quick succession (yesterday and then today! ) the absolute record of the Parisian circuit on the handlebars of his Yamaha R6 from GMT94 in the Supersport world championship…

"This is not the same, you have no room for error! And when we go looking for times like that, we take a little more risk", explains the driver in our video interview below. : "I would have made a mistake not to come, I was a little apprehensive but in the end we did better than expected and I’m very happy. I think Christophe (Guyot, the team manager of GMT94, Editor’s note) had this kind of stopwatch in mind but for me he was a little dreamy … I told him, but he was right and I apologized earlier on the phone! "

Carole’s lap records

  • 2005: 1’00.751 (Laury Fremy,)
  • September 2008: (Stephane Duterne,)
  • June 2013: (David Checa,)
  • July 2013: (David Checa,)
  • June 17, 2020: (Jules Cluzel,)
  • June 18, 2020: (Jules Cluzel,)

Video interview with Jules Cluzel

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