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    dimanche 9 septembre 2012

    Zolder : victoire de l'Audi, les protos surprennent


    L'Audi R8 LMS du WRT a remporté les 24 Heures de Zolder aux mains de l'équipage Vanthoor-Kumpen-Sandström-Bonanomi, battant au passage le record de la distance détenu par la Porsche victorieuse en 2009. La R8 a en effet couvert 860 tours contre 845 à la 996 que se partageaient Penders, Lamot, Loix et Machiels. Par ailleurs, Anthony Kumpen est désormais seul recordman avec six victoires à son actif.
    Après l'abandon de la BMW Z4 du Marc VDS (différentiel cassé vers minuit), la Porsche 911 GT3-R de ProSpeed Compétition a pris le relais pour croiser le fer avec l'Audi. Mais Goossens-Soulet-Redant-Bouvy ont perdu le leadership au petit matin lors d'un changement de plaquettes de freins. Tout en restant menaçante jusqu'au bout et en s'approchant même à une vingtaine de secondes de l'Audi à deux heures de l'arrivée, la 911 GT3-R n'est plus parvenue à inverser la tendance et a donc fini 2e devant une autre Porsche, la 997 GT3 Cup des Derdaele père et fils associés aux frères Thiers.
    La 4e place est revenue à la meilleure barquette, la Radical SR3S de Vanthoor-Bailly-Retera-Brutschin qui, sans des soucis de remplissage de réservoir, pouvait revendiquer la médaille de bronze. N'empêche, la Radical et les autres petits protos - notamment les Wolf de Marchal-Haane-Schreurs-Wauters et Maes-Rigole-Dujardin classés 5e et 6e - ont constitué la bonne surprise de ces 24 Heures qui n'avaient réuni que vingt-trois voitures.

    URBAN-MOTOR.de





    Ducati 350 built by Mauro di Prospero.








    from 8negro.com

    Officially official - Chaz Davies joins BMW





















    The rumors that Chaz Davies would be joining BMW next season more or less came out of the blue a little more than a week ago, after Ben Spies let his pre-contract with the Italian Superbike team expire and more or less confirming that he would be staying put in MotoGP (the announcement that he’ll be riding in Ducati’s Junior team with Andrea Iannone is expected next week at Misano).
    After Davies maiden victory in today’s race 2 at Nurburgring, ParkinGO team manager sadly confirmed that the Welsh rider that gave the team the 2011 Supersport title before their switch to WSBK was leaving and that he would be riding for BMW, and now it has been officially confirmed that Davies will be replacing Leon Haslam in the team and joining Marco Melandri.
    BMW Italia will be handling the squad after the German manufacturer decided to downsize their official team and transfer factory support directly to Andrea Buzzoni’s squad.
    “We are happy that we can welcome Chaz to the BMW Motorrad family. On his way through the ranks, Chaz showed how talented and fast he is. His title win in the Supersport World Championship in 2011 was impressive proof of that. And in his current debut season in the Superbike World Championship, it did not take him long to win his first race,” said Buzzoni, General Manager BMW Motorrad Italia. “We are convinced that Marco and Chaz will form a premium rider line-up, and that in combination with the BMW S 1000 RR, we will have one of the strongest packages in the World Championship.”
    BMW Italia is the first team to have officially confirmed their 2013 line-up.
    with twowheelsblog