Posted by Martin G on April 8, 2011, 6:11 pm 81.86.119.31
Satus Quo are playing at the Le Mans 24 Hour bike race in September.
Blimey.
Since the glory days when Motorhead played at Paul Ricard, it's been traditional for the bands at the big French rounds to be ones that no one outside that region of France has heard of.
[Goes into loft to find denim waistcoat]
Anyway, the Bol is shaping up to be a bit of a battle of the factory teams; SERT for Suzuki, YART for Yamaha, TT Legends for Honda, BMW Motorrad France for BMW and SRC Kawasaki for, umm, Kawasaki.
Free practice this Thursday...
[Walks off humming "Caroline" and playing air guitar...]
(Do I suspect a little bit of a 'spoiler' from the Le Mans media team, announcing this just before the Bol d'Or people start to ramp up their own publicity?)
The 2011 Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship starts with the 75th Bol d'Or, the opening round on the circuit of Magny-Cours, south of the city of Nevers in France. Six official Teams promise to give a dramatic confrontation, all supported by five major manufacturers and three tyre suppliers. Current FIM Endurance World Champion, the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (Dunlop) holder of ten world titles, intends to defend its lead against some fierce opponent.
The Kawasaki mounted SRC Team (Pirelli), winner of 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2010, will certainly try to benefit from the performance of the new ZX-10R. The Yamaha Monster YART (Michelin), Qtel FIM Endurance World Champion in 2009 , is more motivated than ever to regain the title, together with the other official Yamaha R1 Racing 94 Ipone GMT France (Michelin), world champion in 2004.
BMW Motorrad France 99 (Michelin) starts this season on a good basis. Always with some very good results during qualifying but unlucky during the race, the official S1000RR should this year be at the front going for victory. Honda makes its official comeback into the Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship with a new English based team, the Honda TT Legends (Dunlop). The new Honda team has support from some of the former Phase One Endurance team staff, themselves World Champion in 1993, 2000 and 2003 and from very experienced riders.
In the Superstock class, the competition between the Suzuki teams looks very strong. The Qatar Endurance Racing Team, winner of the last three FIM Superstock World Cups, will face AM Moto Racing Competition and Team Motor Events, second behind QERT in 2010, two highly motivated teams. The BMW of Van Zon Boenig Motorsportschool Penz13 RT could also interfere in this duel for the FIM World Cup victory.
The first free practice starts on Thursday afternoon.
"some fierce opponent"
Posted by Mike's Diary on April 8, 2011, 6:48 pm, in reply to "FIM Press Release" 82.32.48.184
Does anyone know who SERT's "fierce opponent" is? It's not TT Legends - we're all really nice and wouldn't say boo to a goose - even after 5 pints of wife beater!
