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The Roadery Motorcycle Touring Company
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EWC , 24 Heures Motos : première confrontation au Mans / Round 1 at Le Mans
Les 24 Heures Motos ouvriront ce week-end la saison 2015 du Championnat du monde FIM d’Endurance (EWC) sur le circuit Bugatti au Mans. Soutenues officiellement par cinq constructeurs, Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki et BMW Motorrad, cinq équipes font office de favoris.
Après quatre années où elles clôturaient le championnat, les 24 Heures Motos retrouvent leur date originelle et donneront le coup d’envoi de la saison 2015. Avec 59 inscrits pour 56 places sur la grille de départ, cette première épreuve du Championnat du monde FIM d’Endurance s’annonce particulièrement disputée dès les qualifications.
Parmi ces 59 teams, cinq sont candidats à la victoire. Champion du monde en titre, le GMT 94, fidèle à son trio de pilotes, David Checa, Kenny Foray et Mathieu Gines, tentera de défendre sa couronne mondiale en s’imposant au Mans. L’équipe de Christophe Guyot bénéficie d’une Yamaha R1 100% inédite, plus facile à pilote et allégée d’une quinzaine de kilos par rapport à la version précédente. Les premiers essais se sont avérés très satisfaisants et les pilotes s’avouent ravis de la performance de la nouvelle machine.
Vainqueur sortant, le SERT aligne un nouvel équipage composé de Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle et Etienne Masson. L’équipe de Dominique Meliand visera un 12ème succès dans la Sarthe pour fêter les 30 ans de la Suzuki GSX-R.
Engagé pour l’intégralité du Championnat du monde d’Endurance, Kawasaki SRC, contraint l’an passé à l’abandon, tentera d’offrir une 13ème victoire au constructeur japonais. L’équipe de Gilles Stafler qui a réussi à s’imposer à quatre reprises lors des cinq dernières éditions, a reconduit Grégory Leblanc, Fabien Foret et Matthieu Lagrive au guidon de la Kawasaki n°11.
Revenu officiellement en 2014, Honda Racing a connu une saison difficile en enchainant les abondons sur problèmes techniques. Vainqueurs des 8 heures d’Oschersleben 2014, Freddy Foray, Sébastien Gimbert et Julien Da Costa, spécialistes des courses d’endurance, tenteront de hisser la Honda N°111 sur la plus haute marche du podium dimanche 19 avril à 15 heures.
BMW Motorrad fait son retour officiel en catégorie EWC. Après cinq saisons en SuperStock, l’équipe Penz13.com s’est vu confier la responsabilité de cette écurie engagée conjointement par BMW France et BMW Allemagne. Markus Reiterberger, Bastien Mackels et Pedro Vallcaneras auront la lourde tâche d’imposer pour la première fois de l’histoire des 24 Heures Motos une machine européenne.
Le YART (Silva, Morais et Neukirchner), vainqueur des 24 Heures Motos en 2009, Bolliger Racing Team (Saiger,Stamm et Sutter), National Motos (Junod, Debise et Bulle) ou encore Team R2CL (Storrar, Leonov et Giabbani) sont également de sérieux prétendants au podium.
En Superstock, la catégorie est relativement ouverte. Qatar Endurance Racing Team, le Junior Team, Yamaha Viltaïs Experience ou encore Louit Moto 33 peuvent prétendre à la victoire.
Début des essais libres, jeudi 16 avril à partir de 12h30.
The opening round of this year’s FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC) is the 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans-Bugatti, France, on April 18-19. Five factory-backed teams (Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and BMW Motorrad) stand out as the most likely front-runners.
After four years as the EWC’s closing round, the 24 Heures Motos has recovered its slot at the beginning of the season. The entry list features 59 bikes for 56 places on the grid, which means that qualifying at Le Mans will be particularly important.
Five teams stand out as the main favourites, beginning with the 2014 EWC champion GMT 94 whose riders David Checa, Kenny Foray and Mathieu Gines will be keen to kick off the defence of their title with victory in France. The Christophe Guyot-led squad is campaigning a brand new Yamaha R1 which is easier to ride and around 15kg lighter than the previous version. Early testing has gone well and the riders are delighted with their new machine.
Last year’s Le Mans winner, SERT, will have a new line-up comprising Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Etienne Masson who will be out to score the Dominique Meilland-led team’s 12th Le Mans win to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Suzuki GSX-R.
Kawasaki SRC has committed to the entire EWC this season and will be hoping to avenge last year’s retirement at the French race and perhaps earn the Japanese make’s 13th victory. Managed by Gilles Stafler, the team has won four of the last five visits to La Sarthe and returns with Grégory Leblanc, Fabien Foret and Matthieu Lagrive on the N°11 bike.
For its return to endurance racing in 2014, Honda Racing had a tough time with several retirements due to technical issues. Yet Freddy Foray, Sébastien Gimbert and Julien Da Costa came first in the 8 Hours of Oschersleben 2014 and are targeting more champagne popping on the N°111 Honda when the race ends at 3pm local time on Sunday April 19.
Meanwhile, BMW Motorrad is making its EWC comeback. After five seasons racing in the Superstock class, Penz13.com has been entrusted with the programme in association with BMW France and Germany. Markus Reiterberger, Bastien Mackels and Pedro Vallcaneras will have the responsibility of trying to claim the first ever win for a European bike at Le Mans.
YART (Silva/Morais/Neukirchner), winner of the French classic in 2009, Bolliger Racing Team (Saiger/Stamm/Sutter), National Motos (Junod/Debise/Bulle) and Team R2CL (Storrar/Leonov/Giabbani) are other potential challengers for a podium finish.
The Superstock battle is as open as ever, but expect Qatar Endurance Racing Team, Junior Team, Yamaha Viltaïs Experience and Louit Moto 33 to play the leading roles.
Free practice is due to begin at 12:30pm on Thursday, April 16.
A clash of bike cultures – by artist Conrad Leach
On display at last weekend’s inaugural BikeShed Paris event, this series of classic racing motorcycle prints by artist Conrad Leach places you right among the action…
As seen at The BikeShed, Paris
On 11 and 12 April, London’s custom motorcycle show ‘The BikeShed’ opened its doors for the first time in Paris, situated at the Carreau de Temple. Punctuating the dizzying line-up of café racers, brats and bobbers was an impressive spread of supporting suppliers and artists – Conrad Leach offered this stunning selection of signed Giclée prints. Known as: Gary, Speedway, Gloves Off andNorton Jack, the prints depict scenes from classic road racing, speedway, board-track and flat-track disciplines.
Two bike cultures, united
Speaking to Classic Driver, Leach said, “Limited to just 100 examples each, the prints were taken from part of a show that took place last year in Los Angeles, called ‘United State’, examining the influence USA and UK bike culture had on each other from the 50s-80s. The BikeShed event continues to go from strength to strength and I wish the organisers every success for round two in London, in May.”
Photos: The prints can be bought direct from www.conradleach.com
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FIA WEC ; Les brèves de Silverstone / Silverstone facts and stats
Les 6 Heures de Silverstone nous ont offert un spectacle à couper le souffle avec trois constructeurs différents qui se sont succédé en tête, des dépassements audacieux et des rebondissements jusqu’à l’arrivée… On espère que la saison FIA WEC sera du même acabit.
-Audi a remporté sa 3e victoire à Silverstone et battu le record de distance avec 201 tours bouclés, soit 1186,10 km parcourus à 197,4 km/h de moyenne. Audi n’avait plus gagné depuis septembre 2014 (Austin) et le trio Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer depuis Le Mans 2014.
- La HPD-ARX03b Extreme Speed Motorsports N°30 (Sharp/Dalziel/Heinemeier-Hansson) a perdu sa 3e place LM P2 après avoir été disqualifiée pour un fond plat trop usé, en raison d’une modification de châssis pour se mettre en conformité technique. Le team américain va bientôt prendre possession de ses deux Ligier JS P2 en vue des 6 Heures de Spa.
- Du coup, l’équipe Strakka Racing récupère la 3e place LM P2 avec sa nouvelle Dome S103-Nissan. Seule à avoir rivalisé avec les Ligier G-Drive Racing, grâce à un super Nick Tandy, l’Oreca05-Nissan KCMG a connu un souci technique au cours de la 2e heure et reçu une minute de pénalité.
- Les débuts de la CLM P1/01 ont été difficiles pour le Team ByKolles. Tonio Liuzzi a dû prendre une échappatoire pour éviter un contact dans le 1er tour et a endommagé le radiateur, la suspension avant et le dessous de la voiture. A 40 minutes de l’arrivée, Christian Klien s’est immobilisé en raison d’une panne de moteur.
- Les meilleurs tours en course ont été signés par : Benoît Tréluyer en LM P1 (Audi, 1min40s836), Sam Bird en LM P2 (Ligier, 1min50s045), Nicki Thiim en LM GTE Pro (Aston Martin, 2min01s054) et Pedro Lamy en LM GTE Am (Aston Martin, 2min02s026.
- Le meilleur tour absolu du meeting a été réalisé par Brendon Hartley (Porsche N°17) en 1min39s534. Pour info, le meilleur tour en course du Grand-Prix de F1 de Silverstone 2014 a été réalisé par Lewis Hamilton en 1min37s176, soit 2s31 d’écart…
- La meilleure vitesse de pointe enregistrée fut de 302,5 km/h par Marc Lieb sur la Porsche N°18. Les deux Porsche ont dépassé les 300 km/h. Derrière, les deux Toyota n’ont pas dépassé 285 km/h.
- L’Audi N°7 victorieuse a passé 9min28s au stand (8 pit-stops), soit une minute de plus que les Toyota N°1, N°2 (7 pits), et Porsche N°18 (6 pits). C’est la Porsche LM GTE Pro N°91 (2e) qui a passé le moins de temps au stand avec 6min41s et 5 pit-stops.
- Anthony Davidson ne va pas inscrire son nom pour la seconde fois sur le RAC Tourist Trophy, mais il a remporté le Richard Lloyd Trophy qui récompense le meilleur représentant du British Racing Driver’s Club.
- D’après l’organisateur du WEC, 45 000 spectateurs furent présents au circuit de Silverstone de vendredi à dimanche pour suivre les essais et deux courses d’Endurance.
- A Silverstone, AF Corse a remporté sa 12e victoire mondiale en 25 courses depuis 2012 avec ses Ferrari 458 Italia/Michelin ! La N°51 et la N°71 ont mené 106 tours.
The 6 Hours of Silverstone provided a breath-taking spectacle with all three hybrid prototype teams taking turns in front, some superb overtaking and suspense all the way to the finish. Let’s hope the 2015 FIA is like this all year!
- On its way to collecting its third WEC victory at Silverstone, Audi set a new distance record after covering 201 laps (1,186.10km, for an average speed of 197.4kph). It was the German make’s first win since September 2014 (Austin) and the first for Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer since last year’s Le Mans.
- The N°30 HPD-ARX03b (Extreme Speed Motorsports, Sharp/Dalziel/Heinemeier-Hansson) was disqualified from third place in LM P2 for an excessively worn flat bottom due to a chassis modification to make the car comply. The American team will soon take delivery of two Ligier JS P2s in time for the 6 Hours of Spa.
- That promoted Strakka Racing’s Dome S103-Nissan onto the LM P2 podium. The only car to have threatened the G-Drive Racing Ligiers was KCMG’s Oreca05-Nissan thanks to the on-form Nick Tandy. It fell back because of a technical problem and a one-minute penalty.
- It was a tough debut for Team ByKolles’ CLM P1/01. Tonio Liuzzi had to go off-track to avoid a collision on Lap 1, damaging the radiator, front suspension and under tray. Forty minutes from the finish, the car was halted by an engine problem.
- The fastest race laps were the works of Benoît Tréluyer in LM P1 (Audi, 1m40.836s), Sam Bird in LM P2 (Ligier, 1m50.045s), Nicki Thiim in LM GTE Pro (Aston Martin, 2m1.054s) and Pedro Lamy in LM GTE Am (Aston Martin, 2m2.026s).
- The weekend’s fastest lap was by Brendon Hartley (N°17 Porsche, 1m39.534). For info, the fastest race lap at the 2014 British Grand Prix was only 2.31s slower (Lewis Hamilton, 1m37.176s).
- The fastest recorded top speed was 302.5kph (Marc Lieb, N°18 Porsche). Both Porsches exceeded 300kph. The Toyotas failed to get over 285kph.
- The winning N°7 Audi spent 9m28s in the pits (eight pit stops, including a Stop&Go) which was a minute more than the N°1 Toyota, the N°2 Toyota (seven stops) and the N°18 Porsche (six stops). The N°91 LM GTE Pro spent the least amount of time in its pits (6m41s, five stops).
- Anthony Davidson did not get his name on the RAC Tourist Trophy for a second time but he did leave Silverstone with the Richard Lloyd Trophy for the highest-placed British Racing Driver’s Club finisher.
- The organisers quote an attendance of 45,000 at Silverstone from Friday to Sunday to watch practice and the bill’s two endurance races.
- AF Corse claimed its 12th world class victory with the Ferrari 458 Italia/Michelin in 25 races since 2012. Its N°51 and N°71 cars spent 106 laps in front.
Mellow yellows from the Classic Driver Market
As it’s Easter time, we’ve searched the Classic Driver Market for our favourite sunshine- and egg-yolk-coloured classic cars. From Ferrari to Lamborghini, Porsche to Alfa – even De Tomaso dipped his sports cars in the yellow paint from time to time…
NAKED SPEED SPECIAL: BRYAN FULLER’S SCRAMBLER
If Bryan Fuller’s name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, his face should. He’s the co-host ofNaked Speed—Velocity’s popular, café-racer-centric show.
Bryan’s been getting his hands dirty far longer than he’s been in show business though. His shop—Fuller Moto—has built up an impressive portfolio of hotrods and motorcycles. And he’s written some handy DIY books along the way.
This off-the-wall scrambler is Bryan’s latest project. And unlike most custom scramblers we see, it’s been built to favour dirt over tarmac.
Look past the radical bodywork, and you’ll spot its most notable feature—the 250cc, bevel-driven engine. That’s right, Bryan’s ‘Dirty Duc’ is based on a 60s-model Ducati Scrambler.
“The concept for the Dirty Duc came to me when I began looking for a dirt bike to ride on trails in Atlanta,” explains Bryan. “I could have bought a cheap new or vintage bike, but at the time there really weren’t many custom dirt bikes out there. Besides, not building it myself just seemed like cheating.”
Bryan knew what he was after, but had to find it. Then, while scouring the swap isles at the Barber Vintage Festival, he came across a tired, worn-out Ducati Scrambler. It was way past needing a simple cleanup, but Bryan wasn’t fazed.
“I called the number listed on the sticker and waited for the owner to meet me at the bike. He said it ran, which was total BS since there were no fuel lines or wires attached. I didn’t care though—this bike was going to be mine. I happened to have $1,200 cash in my pocket from selling t-shirts that day, so I struck the deal.”
Deciding that trail riding is no fun alone, Bryan decided to build a matching second Scrambler. He approached Rich Lambrechts at DesmoPro, who had enough parts in his personal stash for a doppelgänger.
“Rich is one of the top bevel drive Ducati builders, with lots of experience and spare parts—a true master of his craft,” says Bryan. “Together, over the Christmas holiday, we rebuilt both 250cc singles and my round case 750cc twin ‘Full-Sport’.”
Rich overhauled each engine with painstaking precision—using an array of shims gathered over the years to assemble each component with near zero tolerances. “My role,” says Bryan, “was general excitement and help with polishing. Plus ARP fastener replacement duties, coffee infusion, food procurement, and alarm clock.”
Six days later, the engines were finished. Unfortunately an avalanche of customer projects then took priority: it would be a full year before the Dirty Ducs were back on the bench.
First on the agenda was increasing suspension travel. To get the most out of the rear, the swingarms were lengthened and modified to accept a side-by-side dual shock setup. Fox supplied a pair of custom-valved shocks for each, with a whopping eight inches of plushness.
Taking cues from modern dirt bikes, Bryan custom-made chain guides and added a runner near the swingarm pivot to keep chain slack to a minimum. He also used some old BMX pegs to cover up the original shock mounts: handy for loading, unloading and wheelies, or as makeshift passenger pegs.
“The vision was to get modern stance and suspension travel, with vintage Italian parts that would’ve set an extremely high standard back in the day,” Bryan explains.
Each bike also got a set of magnesium Marzocchi forks, held in place by Ceriani triple trees. New wheels were built around Borrani rims and fitted with Dunlop D606s. Dunlop totes the D606 as a street-legal knobby—perfect for getting Bryan to and from the trails.
The exhaust systems are custom-made headers terminated with stainless steel Cone Engineering mufflers. The kooky tail unit and headlight shroud are hand-made aluminum pieces, and the fenders are original.
The bodywork is identical on both bikes, right down to the original 70s-model Penton tanks—items that took Bryan two years to find. Levers and Super Pratic throttles (both from Tommaselli) round out the cockpits.
The Dirty Duc’s unfinished look isn’t a clever attempt at ‘patina’—it literally is unfinished. Bryan’s hoping to add a snorkel and get some paint, powder coating and upholstery done when time allows.
Once that’s done, he’s going to put one of the Dirty Ducs up for sale. Just one—because he’ll be riding the pants off the other.
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