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Suzuki on pole for endurance race |
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Posted by Staff
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
Newly-crowned World Champions Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has set pole position
for tomorrow's final round of the World Endurance Championship in
Qatar.
Despite two crashes - one by Vincent Phillipe and another by team
mate Matthieu Lagrive - the GSX-R1-000-mounted French squad finished with a
combined time of 2:03.624 after dominating every practice and qualifying session
so far; and were the only team inside the two minute, three-second
bracket.
Lagrive was the fastest rider today with a time of
2:03.566.
Second on the grid is Yamaha Phase One (2:04.838) ahead of
third-placed Bolliger Team Switzerland (2:05.097).
Tomorrow's eight-hour
event gets underway at 14.00 hrs local time.
Provision
Qualifying: 1 SERT 2:03.624, 2 Yamaha Phase One 2:04.838, 3 Bolliger
Team Switzerland 2:05.097, 4 Qatar Endurance Racing 2:05.777, 5 Yamaha Austria
2:06.257, 6 Team LTG 67 2:06.822.
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