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World Superbike / Michel Fabrizio / Team Suzuki Alstare



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Troy Herfoss / Team Joe Rocket

Troy Herfoss, 2010 Australian Supersport Champion,

kicked off his rookie superbike season last weekend

at the opening round of the Australian Superbike

Championship.

Yet, despite his apprehension and the presence of

world Superbike riders who were also starting their

season, Troy Herfoss did not disappoint. Better still,

the young Suzuki rider stole the limelight.

Troy indeed came fourth in race 1 despite having

made a poor tyre choice, and then clinched a superb

second place in race 2, nishing just behind Glen

Allerton, 2008 superbike champion and also double

winner of the weekend.

In the Supersport category, another Suzuki rider was

equally impressive: Brodie Waters! Only just 18 years

old, the younger brother of Josh Waters won the rst

of the two weekend races and nally clinched third

place in the overall standings of his category at the

end of the weekend.

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Troy Herfoss takes an impressive second overall

Australian Superbike / Phillip Island

Standings Superbike

01 / Glen Allerton (BMW)

02 / Troy Herfoss (Suzuki)

03 / Ben Attard (Aprilia)




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Michel Fabrizio / Team Suzuki Alstare

After tests during the inter-season period, Michel

Fabrizio, the new Suzuki Alstare Team rider, participa-

ted last weekend in his rst race in the Suzuki team of

which Motul is a partner.

Still in the learning phase as regards his GSX-R 1000,

the Italian rider nevertheless demonstrated on the

4.445 Phillip Island circuit that he was a tough custo-

mer for his fellow contenders this season.

For a long time in the lead in race 1, Fabrizio unfor-

tunately had to relinquish his hopes of mounting the

podium following tyre problems.

All in all, his 6th

(race 1) and 8th

(race 2) positions placed

him 6th in the World Superbike overall standings on the

eve of the rst round of the 2011 season.

Rider of the Joe Rocket Team and participating in the

Australian Superbike Championship, Josh Waters

was also on the starting grid of the event thanks to

Team Yoshimura Suzuki’s wildcard*. At age 24, Josh

clinched 18th (race 1) and 13th place (race 2).

*: Specic term designating an invitation granted to a rider to participate

in a prestigious event.

Fabrizio, getting his bearings

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World Superbike / Phillip Island





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Julie Quignard - Thomas Dalheine / Renault 4L

Take 1,250 Renault 4Ls, add 2,500 students from

all over Europe, a total event length of 6,000 km

combining roads, desert tracks and dunes, and

complete it all with a departure from the Stade de

France. That’s the recipe for the 4L Trophy Rally!

Despite all these highly impressive gures, the 4L

Trophy Rally is above all a 10-day human experience, a

sports* event showing solidarity, traditionally organised

from mid-February between Paris and Marrakech and

exclusively reserved for students aged 18 to 28.

Among the teams that participated in this 14th edition

of the event, team 815 composed of Julie QUIGNARD

and Thomas DALHEINE proudly defended Motul’s co-

lours by securing a superb 60th place (out of the 1250)!

‘We are really thrilled with this unforgettable experien-

ce. Despite its advanced age and apart from a little

breakdown just 30 km from the arrival, our good old 4L

put on a brave show! Even if we took part in the event

above all for its human and social aspects (82 tons

of school supplies were carried by the participants to

the Children of the Desert Association), we are never-

theless very proud of this 60th place in the nal stan-

dings’, said Julie during the return journey.

*: As any notion of speed is ruled out, the participants compete in desert

orienteering events.

6,000 km in... Renault 4Ls!

Student Offroad Rally / Marrakech




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Stewart & Lipanovich / Team Suzuki City Nitro Circus

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All the contenders of the highly

popular American Supercross Cham-

pionship came together last weekend

in Atlanta for the second round of the

season on the East coast. As a remin-

der, supercross is a sport equivalent

to motocross but is raced on very

short, highly technical tracks, at a very

intense pace...

Organised in the largest American sta-

diums, these events generally attract

large crowds of spectators. In Atlanta,

there were 69,000 onlookers! Motul

supports the Suzuki City team, whose

two riders - Malcolm Stewart and

Sean Lipanovich – are participating in

the Lites category in all the East coast

rounds. The two rookies – it’s their rst

year as professional riders – will have

to show exemplary talent because the

level of performance is very high.

The two youths are however learning

fast, as evidenced by the ne 8th place

secured by Malcom – the younger bro-

ther of James Stewart, one of the stars

of the sport – last Saturday!

Malcolm Stewart in the top 10!

US AMA Supercross / Atlanta


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