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samedi 8 août 2015
MotoGP ; Márquez prend la pole position à Indianapolis / Marquez makes it three out of three
Marc Márquez sera en pole position pour viser une cinquième victoire d’affilée à l’Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) n’aura pas laissé le suspense durer en qualifications et s’est installé en pole provisoire dès son premier run avant d’ensuite améliorer son meilleur temps pour se confirmer en pole position, sa cinquième cette année et sa troisième consécutive à Indianapolis, où il avait gagné ces deux dernières années en MotoGP™ mais aussi les deux années d’avant en Moto2™.
Invaincu aux Etats-Unis depuis 2012, le Champion en titre partira avec l’avantage de pole pour essayer de remporter une septième victoire consécutive sur le sol américain et a fini les qualifications avec un chrono de 1’31.884, à un peu plus de deux dixièmes du record du circuit qu’il avait établi l’an dernier.
Son coéquipier Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) et Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) l’accompagneront en première ligne après avoir respectivement terminé à 0.171s et 0.302s de la pole. Premier pilote à sortir de la pit-lane, Lorenzo, dernier pilote ne courant pas sur Honda à avoir gagné à Indy (2009), avait opté pour une stratégie à trois tentatives mais n’a pas pu se montrer aussi rapide que ses concurrents, qui tenteront d’offrir au HRC une sixième victoire consécutive au Brickyard.
Délogé de la première ligne par Lorenzo, Cal Crutchlow (CWM LCR Honda) partira finalement en tête de la deuxième, devant Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Racing), auteur du meilleur temps en Q1 premier pilote Ducati sur la grille, et Bradley Smith (Monster Yamaha Tech3).
Dixième sur le classement combiné de vendredi, Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) demeurait à plus d’une demi-seconde de la première place et s’est qualifié entre Andrea Iannone (Ducati) et Maverick Viñales (Team Suzuki Ecstar) sur la troisième ligne.
Deuxième de la Q1 derrière Petrucci, Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) n’a pas pu faire mieux que dixième en Q1, devant Pol Espargaró (Monster Yamaha Tech3), qui est tombé le vendredi comme le samedi, et Aleix Espargaró (Team Suzuki Ecstar), douzième à 0.930s de Márquez.
Du côté de la catégorie Open, Héctor Barberá (Avintia Racing) conservait l’avantage pris vendredi et s’installait à la quatorzième position sur la grille de départ, derrière Scott Redding (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS).
Stefan Bradl (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini), qui fait ses débuts sur la RS-GP ce week-end, a devancé son nouveau coéquipier Álvaro Bautista pour prendre la dix-huitième position.
Mike Di Meglio (Avintia Racing) a de son côté chuté dans le dernier virage du tracé américain en Q1 et partira de la 22e position, devant Toni Elías, qui remplace Karel Abraham (AB Motoracing) ce week-end.
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Marc Marquez makes it three pole positions in a row at the Indianapolis Speedway as his teammate Dani Pedrosa completes a Honda 1-2.
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez continued his dominance of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to make it three pole positions in a row at the legendary US circuit. The reigning MotoGP Champion has own the last two races at the circuit from pole position, and signs are ominous that he might do the same this weekend after he was the only rider to break the 1’32 barrier during Q2. The day got even better for Repsol Honda as Dani Pedrosa (+0.171s) managed to finish second fastest and secure a 1-2 on the grid for the Factory Team.
Marquez set a 1’31.884 on his just his second flying lap during the session in near perfect conditions as the sun broke through the clouds and the track temperature reached 40ºC at the ‘Brickyard’. Try as they might, no one else had an answer to the Spaniard’s pace in a frantic end to the session, and it was only Pedrosa who managed to get within three-tenths of the reigning MotoGP™ World Champion.
Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo (+0.302s) will start from the back of the front row, as the man second in the MotoGP™ title battle looks to close the 13-point gap in the standings to his teammate Valentino Rossi. Cal Crutchlow (+0.324s) was the leading Satellite rider and will start from the head of the second row in fourth on the CWM LCR Honda.
The big surprise of the session was the pace of Octo Pramac Racing’s Danilo Petrucci (+0.359s), who finished fastest in Q1 and managed to carry that pace into Q2 to start from fifth on the grid as the fastest Ducati. Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Bradley Smith (+0.385s), who had been second fastest overall in practice, will start the race from sixth ahead of the Factory GP15 of Andrea Iannone in seventh.
Current championship leader Valentino Rossi was third on the timesheets with 7 mins to go, but was knocked down to 8th by the end of the session and will have to work hard to try and preserve his advantage in the championship standings on Sunday. The Italian won’t be panicking just yet though as two of his race win this season (Qatar and Argentina) have both come from 8th on the grid.
Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Maverick Viñales completes the third row in ninth while Andrea Dovizioso on the second GP15 will start from tenth on the grid, with the Italian having to fight his way through Q2 after finishing 11th on the combined timesheets after practice.
Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) and his brother Aleix (Team Suzuki Ecstar) make up the rest of the fourth row in 11th and 12th respectively, with less than a second separating the top 12 riders. To give you an indication how close it was, Scott Redding (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) only just missed out on making it through to Q2 by 0.079s and will start from 13th.
Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera was the leading Open class rider in 14th, with Australian Jack Miller (CWM LCR Honda) in 16th. Stefan Bradl (17th) out qualified his teammate Alvaro Bautista (18th) on his debut for Aprilia Racing Team Gresini while the Aspar MotoGP Team duo of Eugene Laverty and Nicky Hayden will start from 19th and 20th on the grid respectively.
Check out the full MotoGP™ Q2 results, the 27-lap race starts at 14:00 local time in Indianapolis on Sunday.
Fleming vs. Onassis: Whose Bentley R-Type Continental was best?
At this year’s Pebble Beach sales, rivals RM and Gooding will each offer a 1953 Bentley R-Type Continental with notable celebrity provenance. The former’s entry was initially owned by shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, while the latter’s was ordered new by 007 author Ian Fleming...
A few weeks ago, we looked at the 1965 Bentley S3 Continental that gained fame as Rolling Stone Keith Richards’ drug express to Marrakech, soon to be sold by Bonhams. Refusing to be outdone, RM and Gooding have both consigned their own Continentals with important historical celebrity provenance – albeit the earlier, R-Type flag-carriers of the sobriquet. With only 208 built, these cross-country expresses were the exclusive preserve of the world’s elite; among the luminaries to order them new were Aristotle Onassis and Ian Fleming.
Wealth reservation society
Unsurprisingly, both men demonstrated good taste when ordering the cars: each was specified with a manual gearbox (only 34 such cars were built in LHD), along with the desirable ‘seats and spats’ options that added lightweight bucket seats and rear wheel covers. While Onassis kept his for six years before moving it on, the car Fleming ordered was never intended to be owned by the Bond author. Instead, he commissioned the car (which also boasted fitted luggage and a racehorse mascot) on behalf of his friend Ivar Felix Bryce, a wartime SIS agent and inspiratory figure for Fleming’s character Felix Leiter. Let’s not forget, although the films have created synonymy between Bond and Aston Martin, 007’s steed in the books was a Bentley – and the R-Type Continental couldn’t have been more fitting for a secret-serviceman of the real world.
Forks in the road of fate
Despite their similarities when new, the Continentals in question experienced rather contrasting fates. The Onassis car passed through several other wealthy owners' hands (including the co-chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance), before being restored and repainted in its original colour combination of Tudor Grey over Maroon. Meanwhile, the Fleming/Bryce car – originally finished in a deeper shade referred to in the books as ‘Battleship Grey’ – was repainted white, and then laid up in a Hollywood garage for more than 30 years, to be discovered only recently. As such, Gooding has described the unrestored car as ‘one of the most important Bentley discoveries’, attaching a $1.4m - $1.8m estimate as a result. RM, meanwhile, is yet to publicise its guide price for its car (its estimate is available on request only), but you’d expect the symbolic first owner to spark the interest of collectors to a similar degree.
Photos: Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com (period image) / RM Sotheby’s / Brian Henniker and the car's owner for Gooding & Co.
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Triumph Bonneville – The Bullitt
Written by Martin Hodgson.
In the café racer scene few motorcycles are as important as the parallel twin-powered Triumph Bonneville. From the early pre-unit bikes, to the engines that powered Tritons and Tribsas, all the way to the modern re-imagining of the Bonneville that you can buy new off the dealer floor; the bike has pretty much defined the scene. Now, we all have our opinions and right now this is mine; I believe this is the best looking Bonnie everbuilt, bar none.
Built by Patrick Flynn from California it was the inspiration for his long running blog, The Bullitt, which was started to showcase the build and many incarnations this 2005 Triumph Bonneville in factory black has gone through. But it is this final form that I believe works so incredibly well; the modern gold forks, the classic looking raw metal tank, the beefy rubber and the clean lines. It’s for sale and I want it.
The original tank has been stripped of its black paint and the bare metal of the tank clear coated to give it the best of British look. To further accentuate the look the factory badge work has been blacked out along with many other components like the gas cap, the carby tops, heal guards and the Thruxton rearsets. A Thruxton also donated its seat to the cause and you guessed it, a blacked out seat cowl sits out back. Even the remote canisters on rear shocks were painted black, all of which perfectly contrasts with two simple elements, the raw metal of the tank and those gold forks.
When Pat decided he wanted to do an inverted fork upgrade on his Triumph few had been attempted and certainly nobody local to him had the runs on the board to guide him through the process. But Jason at British Customs certainly has the know how to make new ideas not only work, but function the way they should. Jason had a set of triple trees that would do the job in fitting the Suzuki GSX-R 1000 forks to the Triumph frame and the key change was pressing in a Bonnie stem to the new triple trees. With massively improved suspension out front with adjustability now an option it made sense to fit equally capable shocks out back and a set of KYB ZRX1200 items do the trick just nicely.
With a stock Bonnie front end in his hands Pat made another great move, he swapped it with Jason for a beautiful set of now black 17″ Carrozerria wheels. Reducing unsprung weight is often overlooked and with the machining of some new spacers and a set of new steering head bearings the new combination was dialled in.
Further reducing the weight and giving some serious braking improvement over the stock Triumph items are the Dual Galfer wave rotors clamped by the Suzuki spec Tokico calipers. The rear brake is standard, but has had the inside diameter blacked out the match the rest of the machine. Control is taken care of by a British Customs direct-mount hydraulic brake reservoir with custom front lines to match the new front end conversion. The final addition to the rolling stock was a sticky set of Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa II tyres, 120 up front and a meaty 180 section at the rear.
The parallel twin engine fitted to the modern incarnation of the Bonneville is a sweet little performer bringing a modern touch to the much-loved engine of old. Sure it doesn’t pack a Panigale-like 200bhp, but that’s not the point, Triumph have built an engine that produces peak torque at an RPM where most 4 strokes are still drawing breath.
To add some extra ponies up top and let the motor sing at full pitch Pat has fitted a British Customs 2-into-1 exhaust that has been ceramic coated in black. It not only looks great but ceramic coating keeps exhaust gas speed high and leg burns to a minimum. A British Customs airbox removal kit has been fitted and in its place are a pair of K&N pod filters, visible through neatly cut side covers.
Pat started the build by pulling the many “unwanted” components of the bike off, mirrors, fenders, gauges… who needs them! And despite the many guises this particular bike has taken on, classic minimalism has always been a common theme. The Suzuki clip-ons wear Oury grips, blacked out levers and little else, while a 5-3/4 Halo headlight (with LED ring) lights the way for this Bonnie beast. To clean up the look even further Pat went to the extent of fitting a Joker ignition relocation bracket with hidden ignition button, British Customs license plate relocation kit with cat eye rear taillight and British Customs rectifier relocation bracket.
The result is style that comes from the amplification of function while carefully concealing anything that intrudes upon the form. It’s a back to the future Bonnie with all the right fruit and if you pulled up at the Ace Café any time in the last 70 years on this Triumph you’d turn as many heads standing still as you would thundering down the road, with the speedo heading for the Ton.
Yes, the sun does shine out of it’s ass
[Photos by Richard Le] via PIPEBURN
BLOODY FANG: A TRACK-READY DUCATI GT 1000
Ducati hit a home run with the GT 1000 as far as we’re concerned. Essentially a factory café racer, it had a classic vibe that belied just how quick it was.
Mysteriously, the sales numbers didn’t add up, and it was eventually dropped from Ducati’s line-up. Finding one today is tricky—and improving on its out-the-box good looks is even tougher. Luckily the Portuguese outfit Maria Motorcycles has an eye for good lines, and a penchant for eye-catching liveries.
Maria’s client had managed to get his hands on a barely-ridden GT 1000, and wanted it transformed into something more at home on the track. The idea was to give the bike an aggressive look to match its performance—and to add a few, carefully selected tech upgrades.
The guys sourced a fairing and tail combo from the US. Then they got lucky: a friend was selling some GT 1000 Paul Smart parts, including a tank and fairing bracket. With some tweaking, everything was eventually pieced together and capped off with a hand-made seat.
Maria kept the GT’s original side covers and front fender, modifying the latter for a neater look. The only changes behind the fairing were a set of clip-ons and grips from LSL, and the stock foot controls were tidied up a little.
At the client’s request, the GT 1000 was intentionally stripped of its mirrors and lighting. “To minimize problems with the authorities,” says Maria’s Luis Correia, “we installed a small fog light in the fairing. It didn’t compromise the look of the bike, and it even gave it a more aggressive look.”
On the performance front, Maria added a complete two-into-one Termignoni system, and had the ECU remapped by Pietro Gianesin of Supertwins Trophy-winning team, GMP Racing. According to Luis, “we didn’t do anything else to the engine, and the bike runs like hell!”
To match the performance, and the more focused riding position, the guys also tuned the suspension. The front’s been setup to match the riders weight and preferences, and there’s a new Bitubo setup at the rear.
All that was left to do, was give the GT 1000 a suitable livery. “Our major objective was to create a racing design, but with glamour and style. Kind of a new take on the concept of sponsor stickers and racing stripes.”
After mulling over more than twenty designs, the crew settled on the black, white, red and blue scheme you see before you, and christened the bike “Bloody Fang.”
We reckon it’ll turn heads—and break hearts—at the next track day.
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Snapshot, 1974: An awkward moment with Enzo...
This picture of Enzo Ferrari was taken in the grounds of his Maranello factory in February 1974 – five years after he sold 50% of his company to Fiat, on the condition that he retain absolute control of Ferrari’s racing activities...
Even standing next to a Fiat, Enzo Ferrari manages to look characteristically haughty. His inscrutably dark sunglasses make it impossible to tell whether he is staring off into the middle distance or straight down his nose at the photographer, but either way his demeanour is far from approachable. Whatever inner resentments Enzo might have been harbouring, however, over his loss of control of the Ferrari road car division, or more likely the Ferrari F1 team’s disastrous performance the previous year, his fortunes were about to change for the better, with the 1974 signing of Niki Lauda.
Photo: Paris Match Archive / Getty Images
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