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15.06.2011Motul . Sport . News 2324 Hours of Le Mans / Gardel - Bornhauser - Canal / Team Larbre Comptition


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24 Hours of Le Mans / Le Mans

Between the Peugeot Audi battle, the return of Pesca-rolo Team, the arrival of Nissan engines in LMP2 and theappearance of Lotus Evoras and Ferrari 458 Italias in GTEPro, this 79th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans led toa ne race being predicted. The 249,500 spectators pre-sent did not come for nothing: the 2011 edition will godown as an exceptional vintage!Following the two 24-hour races and despite the sistercars spectacularly leaving the track on occasions, it was inthe end the Audi No.2 which won the day by crossing thechequered ag only 15 seconds ahead of the Peugeot

No.8. Benoit Trluyer (who obtained the pole and driver of

Team Motul Autech in SuperGT!), Andr Lotterer and Mar-cel Fassler will remain the heroes of this enthralling race.

So close to a miracle

Still in LMP1, Team Pescarolo also came close to victory.Solidly fth-placed (ahead of the Peugeot Oreca MatmutNo.10) less than three hours from the chequered ag, no-thing nor nobody appeared able to prevent Henri Pesca-rolos men from wearing the honori c crown of best petrolteam of the class. Unfortunately, the dream which seemedso close came to an end at exactly 12h53. Trapped by

eeting rainfall in the rst of the Porsche turns, Emmanuel

Two class wins for Motul following a FANTASTIC race!

Tinseau - Collard - Jousse / Team Pescarolo Team / Pescarolo Judd


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Collard could not get back on track after violently comingoff it. What a pity...

A Nissan can hide another one!

In the LMP2 class, the Nissan teams supported techni-cally by Motul clearly showed their supremacy. Indeed,the Oreca 03 of Team Oreca Matmut (Halliday Prmat Kraihamer) long set the pace by dominating the classuntil the early hours when David Halliday made a mistake,trapped by his cold tyres. The penalty was immediate withthe disquali cation of the Oreca No.48 from the race at

6h41. After lying in ambush for several hours, the Zytek

Nissan No.41 of team Greaves Motorsport (Ojjeh Lom-bard Kimber Smith) then demonstrated that slow andsteady wins the race is the prime rule in Endurance bytaking a really merited class victory.

Ojjeh - Lombard - Kimber Smith / Team Greaves Motorsport / Zytek Nissan


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Gardel - Bornhauser - Canal / Team Larbre Competition / Corvette C6.R

Faultless performance for Larbre Comptition

After its win in 2010 in the GT1 class, the team mana-ged by Jack Leconte once again shone in the Sarthe.

At the wheel of the Corvette C6.R, the trio Bornhauser Canal Gardel will go down in history as the rstteam to have won the brand new class GTE Am reser-ved for teams comprising at least one amateur driver.

This team nished just ahead of the Porsche No.70,also entered by Team Larbre Comptition and drivenbrilliantly by the team Belloc Bourret Gibon.

Now that the 24 Hours of Le Mans is over, the nextmeeting is at Imola on 1, 2 and 3 July for the fourth

round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.


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Guy Martin / Relentless Suzuki by TAS

After his Superstock and Supersport podiums (cf.Motul Sport News No.22) at the beginning of theweek, the driver of Team Relentless Suzuki by TASRacing con rmed his status as a man to be conten-ded with by clinching second place at the PokerStars Senior Race, the major Tourist Trophy race.Guy Martin nished just behind the famous John McGuiness who, in addition to taking his 17 th Tourist

Trophy, also clinched the new race record with

1:45:45.80 (the former record had been held bySteve Plater since 2009).In addition to the major communication deployed byMotul, partner of the event since 2010, the twentyinvited clients and the thousands of spectators pre-sent also saw the handing of the Motul prize for thebest technical performance to the rider of a 100%electric motorcycle.

Magni cent second place for Guy Martin

IOM Tourist Trophy / Isle of Man


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Colin Edwards / Yamaha Tech 3 / YZR - M1

Just nine days after breaking his right collarboneat the Catalunya Grand Prix, the American riderof Team Yamaha Tech3 managed to mount thethird step of the British Grand Prix on 12 June atSilverstone.However, the least that can be said is that the wea-ther conditions were atrocious, let alone for so-meone returning to the track after injury. Despitethe lashing rain, Colin Edwards battled from sixthto third place, thereby securing the twelfth podium

of his career, the first since the second-placed fi-

nish he took in 2009 at Donington Park.For his part, Cal Crutchlow unfortunately couldnttake part in his national Grand Prix after sufferingan injury. After his serious fall during the qualifyingsession, the rider of Team Yamaha Tech3 wastaken to the track medical centre where he wassoon diagnosed to have a broken left collarbone.If we go by the speedy recovery of Colin Edwards,Cal Crutchlow should nevertheless appear on thelist of contenders of the Netherlands Grand Prix

on 25 June.

Third place secured by Colin Edwards!

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World FIM MotoGP / Silverstone


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Clment Desalle / Rockstar Energy Suzuki World MX1 / RM-Z450

On the highly technical Agueda circuit in Portugaland in front of a crowd of more than 13,000 specta-tors, Clment Desalle proved once more he was thestrongest last weekend. With two wins in two roundsto his name, the Belgian rider purely and simply do-minated this sixth meeting of the season, taking careto leave only a few crumbs for his closest pursuers.Long under pressure from Steven Frossard, the Bel-gian rider did not succumb and nally took his thirdvictory since the beginning of the season.

As for Steve Ramon, the second rider of TeamRockstar Energy Suzuki World MX1 for which Motulis a technical partner, the latter suffered an injury tohis left groin during the race. Bearing the discom-fort, he nevertheless took eighth position followingthe two races.

Clment Desalles undisputed victory

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FIM MX World Championship / Agueda




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Standings

01 / Clment Desalle Suzuki 249 pts

02 / Antonio Cairoli KTM 237 pts

03 / Steven Frossard Yamaha 213 pts

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