samedi 11 avril 2015
Márquez s’assure la pole après un moment de doute à Austin / Marquez takes pole at CoTA after dramatic Q2
Le Champion du Monde en titre est en pole pour la première fois de l’année suite à une performance exceptionnelle.
Marc Márquez semblait parfaitement dominer son sujet en qualifications mais a soudainement décidé d'arrêter sa RC213V sur la longue ligne droite du Circuit des Amériques à la vue de drapeaux jaunes et a dû l'abandonner contre le pit-wall, sauter par dessus ce dernier et réaliser un sprint en combinaison pour rejoindre le box Repsol Honda et tenter de repartir sur sa seconde moto.
Relégué à la septième position suite à cet épisode invraisemblable, le Champion du Monde en titre n’a eu le temps de faire qu’un seul tour lancé sur sa seconde moto en fin de séance mais a une fois de plus brillé pour s’emparer de la pole avec un nouveau record du circuit et trois dixièmes de seconde d’avance sur Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) et Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP).
Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), Cal Crutchlow (CWM LCR Honda) seront en deuxième ligne, en compagnie d’un excellent Scott Redding (EG 0,0 Marc VDS).
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Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez claimed his 23rd MotoGP™ pole position in Austin, after stopping on track with just 3 minutes to go on Austin.
The reigning MotoGP™ World Champion had to run down pit lane to retrieve his second bike with only seconds to spare as the clock ticked down on Q2. Not even this could stop the Spaniard as he went on to set the fastest ever time on two-wheels around CoTA, a 2’02.135, over sixth-tenths quicker than his previous lap record set in Qualifying last year.
Marquez finished ahead of Andrea Dovizioso (+0.339s ) on the Ducati Team GP15, and Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo (+0.405s) who completed the front row.
Lorenzo teammate Valentino Rossi (+0.428s) will start from the front of the second row, with the Brits Cal Crutchlow (+0.478s) and Scott Redding (+0.539s) on their Factory spec Honda’s in 5th and 6th respectively.
The second factory Ducati of Andrea Iannone will start from 7th, with the Team Suzuki Ecstar of Aleix Espargaro (8th) finishing ahead of his brother Pol (Monster Tech 3 Yamaha) in 9th.
Bradley Smith, Danilo Petrucci and Maverick Viñales will form the 4th row of the grid for Sundays race.
Earlier on, it was the Factory Ducati GP15 of Andrea Iannone and Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Maverick Viñales who made it through from Q1.
Click here for the full results from Q2, Sunday’s MotoGP™ race is due to start at 14:00 local time in Austin.
Silverstone (WEC),Domination des Aston Martin/Michelin en LM GTE / GTE qualifying: domination for Aston Martin/Michelin
Basé à Banbury, près de Silverstone, Aston Martin Racing a signé les pole positions en LM GTE Pro et LM GTE Am. En « Pro », la Vantage N°95 (Nygaard/Sorensen/Thiim) a devancé les autres Aston Martin officielles. En « Am », la pole est revenue à la N°98 (Dalla Lana/Lamy/Lauda).
Les LM GTE ont lancé la première séance qualifs de la saison 2015, des qualifs qui sont désormais établie avec la moyenne de deux meilleurs chronos (au lieu de quatre l’an passé), un par pilote.
Aston Martin a rapidement signé les premiers temps de référence en « Pro » et en «Am » grâce à Nicki Thiim (N°95, 1min59s861) et Pedro Lamy (N°98, 2min00s956). Après le premier run, les seconds pilotes nominés se sont installés au volant de machines équipées de pneus neufs.
Marco Sorensen fut un peu moins rapide que son équipier, mais son chrono fut suffisant pour placer la N°95 en pole à Silverstone. Ses équipiers Fernando Rees (Aston Martin N°99) et Daren Turner (N°97) ont offert un triplé inédit à la marque britannique, pour le grand bonheur des fans massé autour du circuit. Les deux Ferrari AF Corse et les deux Porsche Team Manthey s’élanceront derrière les trois Vantage.
En « Am », Paul Dalla Lana fut lui aussi un poil moins rapide que Lamy, mais le pilote Canadien a maintenu la N°98 en pole position, devant la Corvette C7.R N°50 Larbre Competition, à près d’une seconde, mais qui signe un beau retour en Championnat du monde d’Endurance FIA WRC.
Aston Martin Racing, which is based in nearby Banbury, ruled the roost in both classes during GTE qualifying at Silverstone. All three Vantage V8s finished at the top of the timesheet in LM GTE Pro, led by the N°95 car of Nygaard/Sorensen/Thiim, while the N°98 Aston of Dalla Lana/Lamy/Lauda won the LM GTE Am battle.
First to perform in FIA WEC qualifying were the LM GTE Pro and Am cars, with a revised system based on an average of the single fastest laps each car’s two nominated drivers, with tyre changes now authorised during the session.
Aston Martin posted the early benchmark times in both the Pro and Am categories thanks to Nicki Thiim (N°95, 1m59.861s) and Pedro Lamy (N°98, 2m0.956s) respectively.
After their flying laps, the ‘Phase 1’ drivers handed over to their colleagues who fitted fresh rubber before re-joining the track in a bid to knock Thiim and Lamy off their pedestals.
Marco Sorensen was slightly slower than his team-mate in the all-Danish N°95 Aston Martin but his effort was sufficient to keep the all-Danish car at the top of the ‘Pro’ order. Meanwhile, Fernando Rees promoted the N°99 Aston to second spot and Darren Turner then made it three Aston Martin Racing cars on top. The two Ferraris and two Porsches had to settle for the last four places.
Paul Dalla Lana was slower than Lamy in the late ‘Am’ laps but the Canadian managed to keep the N°98 Vantage V8 on top. Its biggest threat, the N°50 Chevrolet Corvette C7 (Larbre Compétition) was almost a second down in terms of the average of its two drivers.
ELMS, Silverstone : Une première ligne Gibson-Nissan ! / ELMS qualifying
Greaves Motorsport et Jota Sport ont assuré une première ligne 100% Gibson-Nissan sur la grille de de départ des 4 Heures de Silverstone, première manche des European Le Mans Series 2015, qui s’élanceront à 14h30.
Après une matinée pluvieuse, le soleil était de retour sur Silverstone et la piste était quasiment sèche pour le début des qualifs ELMS, une séance quelque peu retardée à cause d’une course de Formula 3.
En ELMS, le format des qualifs est classique avec la pole offerte au meilleur temps. En GTE, la Ferrari 458 Italia N°81 (Wyatt/Rugolo/Aguas) a signé la pole. Les sept premières autos se tiennent en moins d’une seconde. En GTC, la voiture la plus rapide fut la BMW Z4 GT3 N°59 (Perera/Lunardi/Dermont).
Les prototypes LM P2 et LM P3 sont ensuite entrés en piste pour les 20 dernières minutes.
En LM P3, le prototype Team LNT de l’ancien champion cycliste Sir Chris Hoy, et de Chris Roberston, a facilement signé la pole position (1min59s982). Elle fut en revanche plus disputée en LM P2. Après une belle série de tours rapides, elle est finalement revenue à la Gibson-Nissan N°41 Greaves Motorsport (Hirsh/Wirdheim/Lancaster) en 1min48s752.
La Gibson-Nissan N°38 de Jota Sport partira à ses côtés, alors que la nouvelle Oreca05-Nissan N°46 Thiriet By TDS Racing et l’Oreca03-Nissan/Michelin AF Corse N°34 s’élanceront depuis la deuxième ligne.
Greaves Motorsport (1st) and Jota Sport (2nd) earned an all-Gibson-Nissan front row for the start of Round 1 of the 2015 FIA European Le Mans Series which starts at 2:30pm local time today.
After the morning’s rainy start, the sun is back out as promised and the track at Silverstone was almost entirely dry for the beginning of ELMS GT qualifying. The session’s start was slightly delayed, however, because of the late-running Formula 3 race, the first of three this weekend.
The format of the session was a conventional qualifying format, with the fastest car winning the category’s pole. In GTE, that honour went to the N°81 Ferrari F458 Italia of Wyatt/Rugolo/Aguas. The top seven cars were covered by less than a second.
Fastest in GTC was the new N°59 BMW Z4 GT3 of Perera/Lunardi/Dermont. In contrast to the GTE battle, the Team Marc VDS-run car completed the session more than a second faster than its closest rival, AF Corse’s N°63 Ferrari.
ELMS qualifying ended with 20 minutes for the LM P2 and new LM P3 cars.
While Team LNT, the car of ex-cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy and Chris Roberston easily dominated its four rivals in the latter class (1m59.982s), there was a much closer battle in the premier category. First place on this afternoon’s grid was earned by Hirsch/Wirdheim/Lancaster in the N°41 Gibson 015S-Nissan (Greaves Motorsport, m48.752s) which came out on top after a flurry of quick times.
Jota Sport’s similar car (N°38) collected second place at the very last moment to make it an all Gibson-Nissan front row, while the exciting shootout also involved the N°46 Oreca05-Nissan (Thiriet by TDS Racing) and the N°34 Oreca03-Nissan (AF Corse) which will start the ELMS race from the second row.
WSSP ; Cluzel signe sa 12e pole en Supersport en Aragón / 12th career Pole Position in WSS for Cluzel
Jules Cluzel (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) sera en pole position dimanche au MotorLand Aragón pour la course de 16 tours de la troisième manche du Championnat du Monde Supersport 2015. Le Français a devancé le triple Champion Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) grâce à son dernier tour, battant au final le Turc de plus de trois dixièmes de seconde.
Cluzel sera donc en pole pour la douzième fois de sa carrière et la deuxième fois de l’année, après avoir déjà pris la pole à Phillip Island.
L’Américain PJ Jacobsen (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) rejoindra Cluzel et Sofuoglu en première ligne tandis que Kyle Smith (Pata Honda), Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) et Lorenzo Zanetti (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) s’élanceront de la deuxième.
Ratthapark Wilairot (CORE Motorsport Thailand), le leader du classement général, sera huitième sur la grille de départ, juste derrière Gino Rea (CIA Landlords Insurance Honda).
Jules Cluzel (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) will start tomorrow’s 16 lap World Supersport race from Pole Position after stealing the leading position from former champion Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) with his final lap of the session. American PJ Jacobsen (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) will join the pair on the front row. For Cluzel, today’s result marked the 12th Pole Position of his World Supersport career, and the 2nd in 2015, after Phillip Island.
Behind the leading trio, Pata Honda’s Kyle Smith, Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) and Lorenzo Zanetti (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) will assemble on row 2, the top 6 covered by (+1.084s).
Championship leader Ratthapark Wilairot (CORE Motorsport Thailand) will line up on row 3 in 8th position, just behind Phillip Island podium finisher and former Moto2 rider Gino Rea (CIA Landlords Insurance Honda).
WSBK ; Haslam décroche la Tissot-Superpole au MotorLand/ Haslam races to Aragon Tissot-Superpole
Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils) s’est offert la seconde pole position de sa carrière samedi au MotorLand Aragón en battant Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati SBK Team) de tout juste 0.033s.
Le Britannique, qui avait signé sa première pole à Phillip Island en 2010, lorsqu’il courait pour Suzuki, partira donc devant Davies, qui avait réalisé le doublé en Aragón en 2013.
Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team), lui aussi auteur d’un doublé au MotorLand, l’an dernier, complètera la première ligne en ayant fini les qualifications à 0.199s de Haslam.
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team), leader du classement général devant Haslam, mènera la deuxième ligne devant Xavi Fores, le remplaçant de Davide Giugliano chez Ducati, et Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia SBK Team), qui réussissaient brillamment leur première séance Tissot-Superpole de l’année.
Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils) partira septième devant Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki), huitième sur la grille après avoir dû passer par la Superpole 1, et Nico Terol (Althea Racing). Suivront en quatrième ligne Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing Team), Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World SBK Team) et David Salom (Team Pedercini Kawasaki).
Déception chez les Français puisque le Champion en titre Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) n’a même pas atteint la Superpole 2 et a fini quatorzième. Le rookie Christophe Ponsson (Grillini Team) et Randy de Puniet (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki), qui travaille avec un tout nouveau système électronique ce week-end, seront quant à eux dix-septième et dix-neuvième sur la grille de départ.
Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) will start tomorrow’s opening race of the 3rd round of the Eni FIM Superbike World Championship from Pole Position. A lap time of 1.49.664s, the fastest of the weekend so far and the fastest ever for a superbike on the new MotorLand Aragon configuration, left the Englishman 0.033s ahead of his nearest rivals Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Ducati World Superbike Team) and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) who will join him on the front row (+0.199s). For Haslam it’s his first Pole Position since Phillip Island in 2010 and the 2nd of his career.
This afternoon’s 15 minute battle to decide the top 12 places on the starting grid for tomorrow’s races was electric with the final grid line-up only decided in the final minute of Superpole 2, as the outright circuit best lap was bettered
Row two will see championship leader Jonathan Rea aboard his Kawasaki (+0.389), Xavi Fores (+0.785) who continues his impressive debut weekend on the second of the Aruba.it Ducati Superbike Team) and Ayrton Badovini (+1.006s).
The third row was decided in the final seconds of the session, with Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) taking 7th. He will start alongside Alex Lowes and Nico Terol (Althea Racing).
Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing), Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) and David Salom (Team Pedercini) complete the top 12 in a grid that sees 5 manufacturers inside a top ten .
Earlier, Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia) and Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) were the two riders to progress from Superpole 1 into the final 15 minute shoot-out, as reigning Champion Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) and Randy de Puniet (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) missed out on one of the top two places available, the pair qualifying 14th and 19threspectively.
WEC, Silverstone : Les essais libres 3 sous la pluie / rain for Free Practice 3
La dernière séance d’essais libres des 6 Heures de Silverstone s’est déroulée sous de fortes pluies. Les teams en ont profité pour recueillir des datas pour la suite de la saison, les prévisions annonçant une piste sèche pour demain. Audi/Michelin a conservé l’avantage.
L’espoir d’avoir un meeting de Silverstone 100 % sec s’est évanoui ce matin quand le ciel a ouvert ses vannes peu avant le début de la 3e séance d’essais libres. Le beau temps devrait revenir pour les qualifs et la course.
Malgré tout, les datas recueillis ce matin seront toujours bénéfiques. A Silverstone, les teams ne pouvaient se permettre de faire l’impasse sur un roulage sous la pluie, juste au cas où…
En fin de séance, les trajectoires semblaient déjà sèches, ce qui a permis à certains teams LM P1 de passer en pneus Michelin intermédiaires « hybrides ».
Malgré les conditions piégeuses, il n’y a eu que peu de tête-à-queue et d’incidents, sauf pour l’Alpine N°36 (LM P2) qui a dû être tirée du bac à gravier au Turn 9 (Copse).
Pour l’histoire, les meilleurs chronos de chaque catégorie ont été réalisés par l’Audi N°7 en LM P1 (1min52s094), plus de 10 secondes moins vite qu’hier, la Ligier JS P2-Nissan N°28 en LM P2 (2min04s786), la Porsche N°92 en LM GTE Pro (2min13s665) et la Ferrari N°83 en LM GTE Am (2min16s396).
A suivre : les qualifs ELMS à partir de 11h05, puis les qualifs WEC LM GTE et LMP entre midi et 13h00. Les 4 Heures de Silverstone (ELMS) s’élanceront à 14h30.
The final free practice session ahead of Round 1 of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship was marked by heavy rain. The teams used the hour’s exercise to gather data that might come in useful later in the season, but the current forecast suggests a dry race tomorrow. For the record, Audi topped the order for the third time this weekend with its N°7 R18 e-tron quattro/Michelin.
The hopes of having an all-dry weekend at Silverstone went out of the window when the heavens opened shortly before this morning’s Free Practice session.
With the sunshine due to return in time for qualifying and remain for Sunday’s race, it’s difficult to know what value the 60-minute run could have for the teams…
That said, it is always possible to learn something and, with the weather so notoriously unpredictable at Silverstone, the teams couldn’t really afford not to use the track time, just in case the first round of the championship turns out to be wet tomorrow.
In the end, and although a dryish line began to appear near the end of the session (allowing some teams to switch briefly to intermediate rubber, including Michelin’s high-tech ‘Hybrid’ tyre in the case of the LM P1 prototypes), only three cars didn’t leave their pits.
Despite the tricky conditions, there were surprisingly few spins and incidents, the most notable victim being the N°36 Alpine (LM P2) which had to be rescued from the gravel at Turn 9 (Copse).
For the record, the fastest times in each category were claimed by the N°7 Audi in LM P1 (1m52.094s, more than 10 seconds off Friday’s best time), the N°28 Ligier JS P2-Nissan in LM P2 (2m4.786s), the N°92 Porsche in LM GTE Pro (2m13.665s) and the N83 Ferrari in LM GTE Am (2m16.396s).
Next up: ELMS qualifying (11:05am-11:50am local time), LM GTE qualifying (12 noon-12:20pm) and LM P1/2 qualifying (12:30pm-12:50pm), followed by the ELMS race (2:30pm-6:30pm).
‘87 BMW R100 – Skrunkwerks
Written by Marlon Slack.
I like just about every bike featured on Pipeburn. From yard-built bobbers, lean café racers and scramblers of questionable practicality there’s always something of merit in their design and execution that warrants a closer look. But there’s a special place in my heart for performance-based bikes built with a singular purpose in mind. Products of consideration, calculation and engineering, often ridden with stupidity paraded as bravery. So today, here’s a real treat – a gorgeous, beautifully thought-out and immaculately crafted 1987 BMW R100 salt racer designed, built and raced by Adrian from Skrunkwerks in Melbourne, Australia.
You might be surprised to know that alongside bourbon, country music and chronic obesity the United States doesn’t have a monopoly of dry salt lakes. Here in Australia we have our own large white dyno in Lake Gardiner, South Australia. Over seven hours out of Adelaide – a similarly isolated area that is also unable to sustain life – our salt lake has a much less predictable climate, an absolutely abhorrent dirt track entry road and no facilities at all. I’m friends with a few people who have made the pilgrimage over the years but I’ve never made the trip myself – being of the demographic that won’t go anywhere without 4G network coverage or easy access to organic fair trade coffee.
This means that only the most dedicated speed freaks carefully watch the weather reports and pack up the four-wheel-drive to make the pilgrimage to the Australian speed mecca each year, leaving casual observers like myself simply turning and tipping a drink in the direction of their noble pursuit five times a day. And after 18 months of planning and building Skrunkwerks joined a throng of like-minded enthusiasts when they finally wheeled this piece of automotive art onto sandpaper-like surface of Lake Gardiner.
Skrunkwerks had big plans for the bike when it was first started in a workshop alongside Supacustom’s Triumph Bonneville that was also being built to break land speed records. The BMW was to have a very heavily worked engine, with Skrunkwerks aiming for 110 horsepower, but due to some last-minute problems this was put aside and a R100 donk already running in his gorgeous café racer was mounted instead. Adrian aims to have the fresh engine ready for a tilt in 2016, possibly with some kind of forced induction. And I’ve no doubt that it will work beautifully.
Because even the back-up engine is nothing to be sneezed at. Producing around 75 horsepower, it runs 38mm Dellorto carburettors, an oil cooler taken from a Bonneville, dual plugs, porting, a CR increase and a few other tricky bits and pieces to get the bike up to speed. Most notable of these is ‘Ramstein’ – the large ram air intakes you see jutting out either side of the engine. Ram air intake systems are finicky, difficult to jet carburettors to and have slim-to-bugger all gains at any speed other than flat-out. To this end the bike also had a set of huge K&N air filters ready to mount if it ran into any trouble at the lake.
A great deal of effort has gone into suspension design, a crucial focus when riding a bike like this far faster than the original maker of the bike or the maker of the rider ever intended. The R100 runs GSX-R triple trees and USD forks at the front while the custom mounting arrangement of the Hyperpro shock marries it to the R1100RT swing arm, and a R1100S bevel drive – required for its taller gearing.
The swingarm lengthens the stock wheelbase by 100mm, with Bridgestone BT45 tyres mounted to the K100 rims on each end. With the fully worked engine, all these modifications add up to theoretical top speeds of over 150mph, thundering along at a max of 9000RPM, all the while combating rear wheel slip – said to be around 10% while running on the salt.
It’s easy to get bogged down into the numbers while missing the sheer beauty of the bike. The fit and finish is immaculate – with some the most beautiful frame bracing I’ve seen on a motorcycle, much of which is laser cut and hidden under the chopped and shut fuel tank. The colours that have been picked are gorgeous, the welding is immaculate and the attention to detail is second to none (look at those guides for the rear brake line!).
Like much of the engine work, the carbon fibre seat and hugger were completed in-house. And I suppose it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, being designed and built by a man who manufactured his own tube bender and dynamometer in his spare time. And here I sit considering my spare time productive if I manage to get through half a bottle of rum and a season of Louie.
For 2015 the R100 was entered into the MPG1000 class – 1000cc pushrod motorcycles that are unfaired and running on pump gas. Acts of God and other tribulations meant that he was to only have two runs on the salt – but still set a top speed of 128MPH (206 km/h) – only 12.6 miles (20.3 km) short of the current record. And all that from a relatively mildly worked boxer engine, which Adrian thinks still had a few more ponies to be let out with some more tuning. That’s academic though as in 2016 the bike will return to the lake with the dedicated salt racing engine he had originally envisaged. Until then the bike will return to his workshop, looking as gorgeous sitting still as it did as a blurred dart across the Lake Gardiner horizon.
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