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Assen
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News 24/05/2009
Round 4. France : Le Mans
SFW takes his 4th victory in a row
from as many races, this time in France at Le Mans. Seby and Vouks
completed the podium with home rider fabbsan came in fourth place.
Interviews:
SFW Yamaha
England-Netherlands (winner, 15:59.212):
"Another race and another win! It seems like normal for me to win the
race but i definitely don't get any presents and have to ride my best
to win the race.
GG to Seby with strong 2nd place and Vouks despite some no-coll
misfortunes still finishing on podium. Fabbsan again very strong
leaning against the podium.
Creisi won the epic battle this time by only beating his brother
Skider, when they pick up the pace a bit we could see them both
fighting for the win.
I had a pretty good race obviously, the practice went good and didn't
take me too much time to get the setup right. There are some key points
in the track that are very important to be fast and consistent here.
First of all this is called a stop and go track so a solid front end
that gives you confidence to brake hard and deep in to corners is very
welcome.
Then some parts of the track are very bumpy, like the first and last
corner and the first chicane. I've needed the max rebound available to
get the bike stable there. then there are the two chicanes, a bit of
trail was needed to get the bike quickly enough upright for the 2nd
part of chicane. Eventually i had the max rebound and some compression
damping to get the stability in the bumpy part but when exiting the
first chicane often the bike gets airborne and you loose too much
acceleration there. I had to reduce the amount of rear compression
damping and increase the rear spring rate so only the front got
airborne but he rear absorbed the bump and kept accelerating every
time. The grip level was good so it was easy this time to make a
setup... pretty much what should work in theory worked here, but if
there is low grip then it becomes a persuit to find the grip and less
about making the bike comfortable or easy to ride.
I had a very good qualifying where i did my pb time so i was confident
for the race. The race started very good, I had a very good first lap
and could control the race all the way. It was difficult without anyone
in front to focus on and this track is hard to keep the concentration
but it didn't prevent me to finish the race in style.
My team did again good and scored useful points for the team standings.
GVG and Dolz scored some good points but I think they both wanted to be
in top 10.
Once again Bradders couldn't make it due to technical problems."
Seby Lords Of
Shadow (2nd, 16:01.026):
"Congrats SFW for another win and also big gg to Vouks for that amazing
recovery. Also gg fabbsan who was very close to the podium, it will
come soon m8.
My practice didn't went as well as i wanted, never felt fast this year
at Le Mans and i also kept falling pretty often. I was 3rd fastest
after SFW and Vouks in practice and i knew i was out of the fight if a
miracle didn't happen. It didn't happen so i just did a safe race, i
didn't push too hard and i just wanted to get the points. Another very
boring race, it was over in the 2nd lap when the
difference was 1.5s or so and it stayed like that till the end. I've
lost interest in racing, it's way too boring. The difference between
the first 4 riders is too big, maybe not in seconds but you can see it
clearly when you ride on track. I hope Vouks will keep up the good form
so i can have some fights because otherwise it's all going from bad to
worse.
rezist, we've raced on your track in 2007 and on simbike version in
2008, the simbike version is a bit better in terms of fps. Riding was
smoother on the version we'll use."
fabbsan
Motonline Racing Team (4th, 16:04.383):
"GG to SFW, who'll beat him this year? GG to Seby who could beat him,
and GG to Vouks who got the 3rd place i hoped.
My first lap wasn't so good and i was happy to be 3rd in the second
lap, i didn't found the good pace easily, i was in low 27 during few
laps and i did high 26 in the middle of the race, during some laps i
kept the gap with Vouks but in the 8th i made a mistake, yet and he
overtook me. I couldn't improve my pace the last laps and i tried to
finish my race without crash. 4th place isn't what i wanted but it's my
best place in the champ, then i can feel happy.
See you next race where i'll try to ride WITHOUT MISTAKES!"
Guishermo
Lords Of Shadow (11th, 16:14.291):
"GG SFW for the win and to the podium guys, it seems that the first
three places have their owner right before the race unless something
happens....
Once again I crashed... I feel very sorry for the team, but at least
after the crash i was able to do a very very good pace of 27 low (i was
quite inconsistent in practice) and the race was not so disastrous...
It seems the gap from the top riders is more little, with no crash
maybe i would have finish around 6 secs from the leaders so i have to
be positive....
Last year i started like this one and in Mugello i had the pace to
fight for the win, lets hope i can take another step forward, it is a
track i really like.
See you next race!"
GVG Yamaha
England-Netherlands (12th, 16:15.541):
"Congratulations AGAIN with your victory SFW.
For me it was my best so far. I ride a lot more comfortable and the
nerves didn't influence my race pace. The first half of the race was
just great! I did constant laps in 27 and felt very comfortable. The
second half was not so good. I had a long day and start to felt very
tired. I had nobody to fight with and just tried to follow Mgr, but he
was to fast. I also run wide a lot and couldn't keep my lap times in
27. I kept Dolz en Mircea very easily behind me and eventually finished
12th. Not my best result and like SFW said, i really want to be in top
10.
I noticed that the gap to the front has reduced. In the begin it was
like 20 secs and now 16 secs.
The competition is hard and there are more than 10 people who are
faster than me so to be in top 10 is very difficult. I will try to
continue to make no big mistakes in the race and hope that other will
do. I'm leading the Rookie title with a nice gap to second and i'm
still 9th in standings, so i'm satisfied. Only the last one is going to
be very hard to keep!
See ya in Mugello!"
rezist Rezist
Racing Yamaha (19th, 16:26.459):
"Yes well done again SFW i think the podium is getting a bit boring now
lol its always the same three. I was lucky there to get into 19th but i
could have gone probably 3 places better if the race had gone as
planned, but anyway i'm always happy with any points after the last few
seasons lol.
See you at Mugello, pity that its not my Mugello model (WTF? not to
toot my own horn but i reckon that's the best track in GP500 lol) but i
still managed to put all my skins onto this old model (which is
actually the same model but a different conversion of it lol)."
Statistics:
In the Rider
Standings SFW has extended his lead to 32 points to second man Seby.
Vouks dropped back to 3rd, equal on points with Seby, 88 each. Skider
and fabbsan
complete the top 5.
Yamaha England-Netherlands is the leader in the Team Standings thanks
to SFW's 4th victory in a row. They have a total of 159 points, 17
points in front of Lords Of
Shadow and 22 points in
front of NoGrip Racing. MVM Racing Team and Motonline Racing Team complete the top 5.
Yamaha has extended the lead in the Constructors Standings to 32 points
over Kawasaki. Suzuki are 3rd at 47 points behind while Ducati and
Honda complete the top 5.
In the Qualifying Award SFW is leading Seby by 0.573s. Third is Vouks
at 1.547, fabbsan 4th at 2.452s and Thunder completes the top 5, 2.609s
behind the leader.
SFW leads the Hot Lap Award and has extended his lead to Seby to
0.755s. Vouks is 3rd at 0.867s behind, 4th is Skider at 2.030s and
Creisi completes the top 5 at 2.200s.
SFW also leads the Total Time Award and has extended his lead to Vouks
to over 13 seconds. Seby is 3rd at over 16 seconds
behind SFW. Skider is 4th at 20 seconds behind SFW while fabbsan is 5th
at over 26 seconds behind the leading man.
Join us in 2 weeks time for the 5th race of the season at Mugello, in
Italy.
Report by Seby
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