Sert remains on pole for Le Mans 24hr Enduro

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September 21, 2013 in Motorsport

Sert remains on pole for Le Mans 24hr Enduro

Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has remained on Pole for today's Le Mans 24-Hour World Endurance final round in France after improving its overall combined time to 1:37.877 in Friday's final qualifying at the Circuit Bugatti.

The 12-times World Endurance Champions, who are without team rider Anthony Dehalle this weekend following his injury earlier in the week, topped the timesheets by less-than 100th-of-a-second from Yamaha France GMT 94; who significantly improved their overall time from the opening sessions.

SERT's Vincent Philippe and Julien Da Costa secured better individual lap-times of the day with a 1:37.258 each; as team-mate Alex Cudlin remaining on the same 1:39.116 lap time.

Third place on the start will be taken by runner-up SRC Kawasaki, buoyed by Gregory Leblanc's fastest individual lap-time of the sessions (1:37.190). Monster Energy YART - joined by AMA Superbike contender Josh Hayes for the event - secured fourth ahead of BMW Motorrad France.

Suzuki's Team R2CL- who currently holds four-equal in the World Endurance Championship class - finished the day in 12th position, but ahead of podium rivals Bolliger Team Switzerland. R2CL riders Guy Martin, Dylan Buisson and Gwen Giabbani recorded a combined time of 1:39.674; Giabbani lapping the fastest at 1:38.205.

Suzuki interest remains high in the Superstock class with three GSX-R1000-mounted teams in the top four; and three teams capable of lifting the Superstock title at Le Mans: Behind Superstock class pole-setters Team Louit Moto 33 (Kawasaki) is Team Motors Events, AM Moto Racing and Junior Team LMS - who are all separated by less than 500th-of-a-second.

The 36th 24 Heurs Moto Le Mans gets underway at 15:00hrs (GMT +2) and will be covered live on FIM-LIVE.COM where there will also be a live Twitter feed. The race is also being broadcast by several global Satellite TV Stations, in part and delayed.

Le Mans Final Qualifying Result: 1 SERT - Philippe/ Da Costa/ Cudlin - (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:37.877, 2 Yamaha France GMT 94 (Yamaha) 1:37.906, 3 Team SRC Kawasaki (Kawasaki) 1:38.241, 4 Monster Energy YART (Yamaha) 1:38.801, 5 BMW Motorrad France (BMW) 1:38.880, 6 FMA Assurances (Honda) 1:39.265, 7 National Motos (Honda) 1:39.318, 8 Team Louit Moto 33 (Kawasaki) 1:39.571, 9 Honda TT Legends (Honda) 1:39.607, 10 Team Motors Event - Fastre/ Savery/ Lucas - (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:39.619, 11 AM Moto Racing - Loiseau/ Maitre/ Hardt - (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:39.631, 12 Team R2CL - Martin/ Buisson/ Giabbani - (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 1:39.674.

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