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09/09/2012, 16:00
Team Suzuki Racing
SUZUKI WINS WORLD ENDURANCE TITLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has won the 2012 World Endurance Championship after one of closest and most-exciting finishes at the Le Mans 24-Hour race in France that finished at 15:00 local time.
Team riders Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Takuya Tsuda completed 844 laps of the world-famous Bugatti Circuit to bring their GSX-R1000 home in second place just 1:02 minutes behind race winners SRC Kawasaki, who also finished with 844 laps.
SERT had led the race going into the closing stages but were given a time penalty for a rule infringement during a pit stop, which put them back to second place, but this was enough to clinch Suzuki’s 12th world title.
Seventh place went to Suzuki’s Starteam 67 aboard their GSX-R1000 who clinched the Superstock class and beat many of the top World Endurance class riders.
Full report, photos and results to follow…
Result: 1 SRC Kawasaki 844 laps, 2 SERT (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 844, 3 BMW Motorrad 840, 4 Yamaha France GMT 94 839, 5 Honda TT Legends 828, 6 National Motos 815, 7 Starteam 67 (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 814.
SUZUKI WINS WORLD ENDURANCE TITLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
267816
Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has won the 2012 World Endurance Championship after one of closest and most-exciting finishes at the Le Mans 24-Hour race in France that finished at 15:00 local time.
Team riders Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Takuya Tsuda completed 844 laps of the world-famous Bugatti Circuit to bring their GSX-R1000 home in second place just 1:02 minutes behind race winners SRC Kawasaki, who also finished with 844 laps.
SERT had led the race going into the closing stages but were given a time penalty for a rule infringement during a pit stop, which put them back to second place, but this was enough to clinch Suzuki’s 12th world title.
Seventh place went to Suzuki’s Starteam 67 aboard their GSX-R1000 who clinched the Superstock class and beat many of the top World Endurance class riders.
Full report, photos and results to follow…
Result: 1 SRC Kawasaki 844 laps, 2 SERT (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 844, 3 BMW Motorrad 840, 4 Yamaha France GMT 94 839, 5 Honda TT Legends 828, 6 National Motos 815, 7 Starteam 67 (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 814.