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New Suzuka look but same EWC aims for YART Yamaha

Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Official Team will contest next month’s 44th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race with a new livery but with its aim of FIM Endurance World Championship success very much unchanged. Based in Austria, the squad is on a high following its second-place finish in April’s 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans and its victory in last month’s 24H SPA EWC Motos, the first triumph for the team in a 24-hour EWC event since 2009.YART’s strong form in the opening two events of the season means it will head to Suzuka one point ahead of defending champion team F.C.C. TSR Honda France in the provisional standings. And Team Manager Mandy Kainz is “obsessed” with making it three EWC podiums out of three in 2023.“Since our first appearance at the Suzuka 8 Hours in 2004, I have been obsessed with standing on the podium,” Kainz said. “After a few fourth places, we were so close last year, until we crashed in the last hour lying P3 and ended up only seventh. For 2023 we will fight even more focused and harder and hopefully make it.”Italian Niccolò Canepa, Germany’s Marvin Fritz and Czech Karel Hanika will ride for Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Official Team at Suzuka. The trio tested at the legendary Japanese track for two days last week and clocked the fourth fastest combined time. Fim-Ewc-24-h-Spa-2023-YART Yamaha, Fritz Marvin, Hanika Karel, Canepa Nicolo, Mulhauser Robin, Yamaha YZF R1, Formula EWCANDY KAINZ: “Since our first appearance at the Suzuka 8 Hours in 2004, I have been obsessed with standing on the podium”A special livery for a special race: YART’s Suzuka livery explained The Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Official Team’s #7 YZF-R1 will feature a special livery based on the new RS4GP bottle design. RS4GP is the flagship product of the Yamalube line of Genuine Yamaha engine oils. Yamaha Motor will provide technical support and operational assistance to YART during the Suzuka 8 Hours.Shorter but no less demanding While the 44th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race might be shorter in terms of length than the other EWC rounds, it’s no less demanding with the typically intense heat and humidity notable factors. This year’s race is due to start at 11h30 local time on Sunday 6 August following two days of practice and qualifying. The Japanese event counts as round three of the four-event EWC season.For more info check out our dedicated Endurance World Championship News page Endurance World Championship or visit the official Endurance World Championship website fimewc.com

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YART Yamaha on pole at the 24 Heures Motos

YART Yamaha picked up pole position ahead of BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team and Suzuki Endurance Racing Team. In Superstock, Team 33 Coyote Louit Moto beat Moto Ain by a whisker to the best starting position. YART Yamaha claimed pole position thanks to a very consistent team. All three riders – Karel Hanika, Marvin Fritz and Niccolò Canepa – came in under the 1:37 mark on a lap of the Bugatti circuit. The Austrian factory Yamaha has dominated the proceedings at Le Mans since yesterday, and will start the 24 Heures Motos from pole at 12pm tomorrow (Saturday). That said, the day’s best performance can be chalked up, not to YART Yamaha, but to BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team. Markus Reiterberger posted the fastest qualifying lap, a 1:36.164, without however beating the record set by Randy de Puniet, a 1:35.730 lap in qualifying at the 2017 24 Heures Motos. The Belgian factory team (Kenny Foray, Ilya Mikhalchik and Markus Reiterberger) will take second position on the grid. The leader of the provisional standings, Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (Etienne Masson, Gregg Black and Xavier Simeon), will start from 3rd just ahead of F.C.C. TSR Honda France’s Josh Hook, Freddy Foray and Mike di Meglio. It could be a tricky race for the Japanese Honda team, as Josh Hook was injured during practice but is expected to be allowed to race. The Honda #5 is ahead of ERC Endurance’s factory Ducati in the hands of Randy de Puniet, Julien da Costa and Louis Rossi. Read the full article

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YART Yamaha gets the win in Slovakia

YART Yamaha ran a masterful race and picked up the win at the 8 Hours of Slovakia Ring, ahead of GMT94 Yamaha and F.C.C. TSR Honda France, which however still leads the FIM EWC standings.

The fight between the two factory Yamahas lasted until the very last minute of the race after nightfall in Slovakia. In the end, YART Yamaha emerged the winner with a less than 32-second lead over GMT94 Yamaha. The Austrian Yamaha, which scored its first points this season, took over the lead 1 hr 30 minutes into the race. Broc Parkes, Marvin Fritz and Max Neukirchner then managed to stay in control of the race despite electronics issues, and hold off GMT94 Yamaha’s David Checa, Niccolò Canepa and Mike Di Meglio. Considering the blistering pace set by the two machines in the lead, F.C.C. TSR Honda France’s Freddy Foray, Alan Techer and Josh Hook put up a good fight. In fact, Freddy Foray broke the race’s lap record with a time of 2:04.185. F.C.C. TSR Honda France’s 3rd-place finish at the 8 Hours of Slovakia Ring allows the squad to hold on to top spot in the 2017-2018 FIM EWC provisional standings, though they are now just one point ahead of GMT94 Yamaha.

Another CBR 1000 RR ran a fine race to finish at the foot of the podium. After doing battle in the leading pack for a lengthy spell, Honda Endurance Racing came home ahead of BMW-mounted NRT48’s Kenny Foray, Stefan Kerschbaumer and Peter Hickman and Mercury Racing’s Karel Hanika, Jakub Smrž and Matej Smrž.

Favourites once again beset by problems Suzuki Endurance Racing Team finished 7th, just behind Mercury Racing, in the aftermath of a troublesome race. After being held up by a stop-and-go penalty because of a missing tyre marking in qualifying yesterday (20 tyre stickers are allocated in the EWC class and 13 in Superstock for an 8-hour race), riders Vincent Philippe, Etienne Masson and Gregg Black had braking problems similar to the ones they had experienced at Le Mans.

Bolliger Team Switzerland (Roman Stamm, Robin Mulhauser and Sébastien Suchet) finished 8th, ahead of Team SRC Kawasaki’s factory ZX-10R. The Kawasaki #11 had been tipped as a favourite, but after Randy de Puniet crashed out early on in the race, the bike ran out of fuel 5 hours in and lost touch with the 5 teams in the lead.

Upsets in Superstock class too Yamaha Viltaïs Experiences, the top Superstock, was 10th past the finish line. Axel Maurin, Florian Alt and Vincent Lonbois came in ahead of Atomic 68’s Suzuki, whose riders Clément Stoll, Guillaume Antiga and Stéphane Egéa pulled off their performance despite taking a spill early on in the race. Gert56 took the 3rd spot on the podium as a result of incidents in the final stages of the race affecting two of the main Superstock players. Tati Team Beaujolais Racing dropped back after running out of fuel, but still managed to finish 5th in the Superstock class and thereby conserve its lead in the provisional standings. Junior Team Le Mans Sud Suzuki also got hit by a stroke of fate. An engine failure put paid to their hopes of a podium place just 10 minutes short of the chequered flag.

Moto Ain, another favourite in this category, lost all hope of victory when Roberto Rolfo crashed in the early stages of the race. Moto Ain finished the race 6th in the Superstock class.

The next round of the FIM EWC – the 8 Hours of Oschersleben in Germany on Saturday 9 June – will also be the Superstock final.