The 42Nd Edition Of 24 Heures Motos

The 42nd edition volition forever live remembered as a 24-hour edge-of-seat duel on the track. Honda Endurance Racing’s Randy de Puniet as well as Team SRC Kawasaki France’s Jérémy Guarnoni rocketed away from the grid, as well as the race came to an as fast-paced complete featuring the same ii teams, this fourth dimension amongst Yonny Hernandez as well as Jérémy Guarnoni inwards the saddle. The suspense reached an fifty-fifty higher pitch when the security cars came out to build clean the rail fifteen minutes from the finish.

Team SRC Kawasaki French Republic carried the hateful solar daytime thank y'all to Jérémy Guarnoni, David Checa as well as Erwan Nigon’s conclusion to milk shiver off Honda Endurance Racing’s Randy de Puniet, Yonny Hernández as well as Sébastien Gimbert. Their amazing duel overshadowed a third-place complete yesteryear Suzuki Endurance Racing Team, who got dorsum on the podium for their squad managing director Dominique Meliand’s last-ever 24 Heures Motos. The Suzuki’s riders Vincent Philippe, Etienne Masson as well as Gregg Black finished inwards practically the same lap as the duo inwards the lead.

 Wepol Racing (Yamaha), Bolliger Team Switzerland (Kawasaki), 3ART-Moto Team 95 (Yamaha) as well as National Motos (Honda) also pulled off praiseworthy performances to complete 4th, 5th, sixth as well as eighth respectively, to a greater extent than than 10 laps behind the iii squads leading the race at a scorching pace.

Thanks to their win, as well as the fact of staying inwards ascendency of the race from the 4th hr to the finish, Team SRC Kawasaki French Republic bring gone to the piece of job yesteryear of the provisional standings of the 2018-2019 FIM EWC, ahead of Suzuki Endurance Racing Team.

  
Reigning champions F.C.C. TSR Honda France, who got to Le Mans as standings leader, bring lost a large chunk of points. Two crashes had the Japanese squad plunging to the bottom of the rankings. F.C.C. TSR Honda French Republic finished the 24 Heures Motos inwards 35th place.

Superstock podium winner inwards Top 10
Motors Events finished seventh to emerge victors inwards the Superstock class. Their rigid comeback as well as conclusion to chase the win at Le Mans bring earned them the Anthony Delhalle EWC Spirit Trophy. Motors Events also won the EWC Dunlop Independent Trophy. James Westmoreland, Johan Nigon as well as Adrien Ganfornina rode the Suzuki #50, finishing ahead of Yamaha Moto Ain (Robin Mulhauser, Roberto Rolfo as well as Stefan Hill) as well as Kawasaki-mounted Team 33 Coyote Louit Moto (Enzo Boulom, Chris Leesch as well as Kevin Manfredi).

This throws the Superstock Endurance World Cup broad open, as none of these teams had scored whatsoever points at the Bol d’Or, the championship’s commencement round.
The 4th Superstock, Junior Team Le Mans Sud Suzuki, were on target for a podium when they were slowed yesteryear exhaust problems.

Dashed hopes for starting grid’s front-row threesome
Team ERC-BMW Motorrad Endurance started the race from pole as well as were amid the piece of job yesteryear iii inwards the early on stages, simply as well as thence had to take away presently afterwards midnight next a crash caused yesteryear engine failure. YART Yamaha, who were s on the grid, waged battle inwards the leading pack until they as good suffered engine failure at some 1.30am. VRD Igol Pierret Expériences, who started the race from 3rd place, managed to grade i point. After iii crashes during the race, their Yamaha #333 finished 20th.
GERT56 yesteryear GS Yuasa, the piece of job yesteryear Superstock on the grid, suffered a like fate, existence forced to take away afterwards a crash followed yesteryear electronics problems.

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