SERT BEGINS WORLD ENDURANCE DEFENCE AT LE MANS

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SERT BEGINS WORLD ENDURANCE DEFENCE AT LE MANS

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Team Suzuki Press Office – April 8.

Suzuki Endurance Racing Team will start its world title defence at the opening round of the 2016 World Endurance Championship in Le Mans, France from fourth position on the grid.

Following a positive pre-season test schedule, which included topping the timesheets at the Le Mans pre-event shakedown recently with riders Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Etienne Masson, the 14-time World Champions spent free practice and today’s qualifying sessions getting the GSX-R1000 dialled-in for 24 hours of gruelling racing that is expected to take place under mixed weather conditions.

A total of 57 teams, and more than 200 riders in the EWC and Superstock classes, are entered for tomorrow’s first of four rounds; and which gets underway at 15:00hrs local time.

Following this afternoon’s qualifying, Team Manager Dominique Meliand explained SERT’s approach to free practice and qualifying. He said: “We took a studious approach to qualifying to give our bike every chance of crossing the finish line first at 3pm on Sunday.”

With three GSX-R1000s in the top-10 today, Team April Moto Motors Events riders Gregg Black, Gregory Fastre and Alex Cudlin scored seventh position on the grid with 2015 Superstock class runners-up, Junior Team LMS Suzuki (Baptiste Guittet, Romain Maitre and Robin Camus 10th and second-fastest of the SST teams.

Le Mans Qualifying Results: 1 Penz13.com BMW Motorrad (BMW) 1:38.201, 2 SRC Kawasaki (Kawasaki) 1:38.317, 3 YART Yamaha EWC (Yamaha) 1:38.932, 4 Suzuki Endurance Racing Team – Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle, Etienne Masson – (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:39.252, 5 GMT94 Yamaha (Yamaha) 1:39.302, 6 Honda Endurance Racing (Honda) 1:39.698, 7 Team April Moto Motors Events - Gregg Black, Gregory Fastre, Alex Cudlin - (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:39.707, 8 Louit Moto 33 Traqueur (Kawasaki) 1:39.854, 9 Team Bolliger Switzerland (Kawasaki) 1:40.059, 10 Junior Team LMS Suzuki – Baptiste Guittet, Romain Maitre, Robin Camus – (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:40.139.
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