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FIA World Endurance Championship – Nürburgring 6 Hours

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FOLLOW US ON motul.com Yamagishi, Ragues, Ruberti Larbre FIA WORLD ENDURANCE Chevrolet Corvette C7-Z06 CHAMPIONSHIP NÜRBURGRING 6 HOURS

RACE 04/09

PODIUMS ON THE RING

58 000 spectators attended on the winners. Ricardo Gonzalez, Felipe Albuquerque Sunday 24 July the fourth round of the FIA World and Bruno Senna are now in second position in the Endurance Championship for which Motul is the FIA Endurance Trophy of the category. official lubricant partner. While RGR Sport cele- The best lap time bagged by Pierre Ragues in LMGTE- brated its second place in LMP2 on the podium, Am clearly illustrates that Larbre Compétition did its Larbre Compétition clinched its bronze medal utmost to win on track its third podium of the season. in LMGTE-Am by default. The fine overall perfor- Finally, this reward came a few hours after the arri- mance of Motul's technical partners in this event is val when the car that had finished 2nd was declared strengthened by SMP Racing which placed its two non-complying. Pierre Ragues, Yutaka Yamagishi cars in 6th and 8th places in LMP2. and Paolo Ruberti, who'd recovered from the injury As often, the fight was fierce at all levels of the pack. that deprived him of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, are in RGR Sport's Ligier-Nissan #43, victorious at Sil- 3rd place in the championship. The Corvette is just verstone, passed through the gravel trap at the end one point behind the Aston Martin preceding it and of the race and finished 2nd only 16 seconds behind one point ahead of the Porsche hot on its heels!

ANOTHER TWO PODIUMS STANDINGS J. Herlings, KTM, 597 pts 01 CLINCHED BY SEEWER J. Seewer, Suzuki, 470 pts 02 P. Jonass, KTM, 403 pts 03

The two factory teams supported technically by broke my helmet and I was forced to quit. That's a Motul in MXGP suffered during the Czech Republic pity; my place was in the Top 5.' Grand Prix that took place at Loket from 22 to 24 At Suzuki World MXGP, the good news was Kevin July. The red and white colours nevertheless ap- Strijbos' return after the injury that made him miss peared on the podium in MX2 category. the last three Grand Prix. The Belgian came away A succession of mishaps marked the route of Team with a 10th place, despite some pain in the arms. HRC's riders. The positive point is the 5th in the The same manufacturer's MX2 structure once World Championship kept by Evgeny Bobryshev again battled it out in the front of the fight with a as well as best warm-up time and Gautier Paulin's 2nd place finally for Jeremy Seewer. The Swiss still spectacular start to race one. 'Unfortunately I did holds the same position in the championship stan- not gel with the front of the bike,' explained the dings. 'Loket is a circuit where you can easily make Frenchie from Honda. 'I hadn't fallen twice in the a big mistake. I'm therefore very pleased with this same race for a long time… In race two, a stone new podium!'

Masataka Yanagida - Daiki Sasaki Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500

RACE 04/08

A NISSAN DRIVES OUT STANDINGS Matsuda / Quintarelli (Nissan), 42 pts 01 THE OTHER ONE Kovalainen / Hirate (Lexus), 34 pts 02 Rossiter / Hirakawa (Lexus), 30 pts 03 Sasaki / Yanagida (Nissan), 22 pts 05 The first two rounds of the Japanese Super GT when the safety-car was putting an end to a neu- Championship were won by the Nissan Motul Au- tralisation, which propelled them into the lead of tech GT-R Nismo, champion in 2014 and 2015. It the race. The Nissan #24 was being threatened by came 9th on the verdant Sugo circuit where Ronnie Team Sard's and Zent Cerumo's Lexuses when the Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda carried heavy heavy red flag put an end to the action six laps before ballast owing to their recent successes. They howe- the chequered flag. Motul thus secured a fantastic ver keep the leadership of the provisional standings 1-2-3 in GT500! of the series. The drivers of another Nissan took over For having managed to enter their car in the qua- on the highest step. Kondo Racing, which also enjoys lifyings despite major damage suffered in free Motul's technical support, won a very fierce race. practice, the mechanics of another Motul team, While no Nissan appeared among the eight cars Subaru BRZ R&D Sport, were doubly rewarded: that qualified for Q2, Masataka Yanagida and Daiki they clinched the ZF trophy and their drivers Taku- Sasaki knew perfectly well how to play their cards. to Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi mounted the third The former indeed handed over to the latter just step of the podium in GT300.

RUSSIAN DRIFT SERIES RYAZAN RACE 04/06

'CHEPA' ESCAPES THE ATRON WALL

One of the drift zones on the Atron Interna- Other Motul-supported drivers and teams however tional Circuit at Ryazan is edged by a wall known singularly lacked luck. Georgy 'Gocha' Chivchyan's to have stopped more than one drifter gathering Nissan Silvia suffered a mechanical glitch: 'I'm ra- speed. A few drift 'monsters' have had their hopes rely a spectator but this time I could appreciate dashed there in the fourth round of the Russian from the grandstands the drift by other drivers, as Drift Series. The Ukrainian Motul driver Alexei well as the Motul Extreme Show.' Alexei Kolesnikov 'Chepa' Golovnya, champion in his country and and his FMX13 freestyle motocross team were in- member of team Autoprofi, bagged on 15 and 16 deed participating much to the delight of all. July a significant win in the face of over 40 very Nikita Shikov, member of team Autoprofi like the good specialists of the discipline! 'Chepa' confir- winner, dropped out at Top 32 level after confu- med his great ease on Saturday in qualifying, be- sing the gear and hand brake levers. 'It's my fault! fore progressing the following day to the final and I'm pleased however that none of the cars ended winning over Arkady Tsaregradtsev. up in the fearsome Atron wall!'

SILK WAY RALLY RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN, CHINA

PITILESS RALLY ON LEGENDARY ROUTE

92 cars and 24 trucks took the start of the Silk 3.1 (vehicles complying with Chinese regulations). Way Rally on 8 July on Red Square, Moscow. Three Sergey Uspenski, Andrey Rusov and team Uspenski teams partnered technically by Motul participated Rally Tecnica can testify to the extreme difficulty in this modern-day evocation of the legendary silk of the Silk Way. Their Nissan G Force Proto arrived route representing major economic stakes for the 67th. The major problems met in the Gobi Desert third millennium. The Poles of Neo Raid, Chinese distanced them from the Top 20. 'Despite the pro- of Eastern Racing and Russians of Uspenski Rally blems, I'm pleased to have reached the end,' stated Tecnica all reached the arrival in Beijing on 24 July Sergey Uspenski, six times Russian Rallies cham- after a 10,000 km long haul. pion, who experienced his last flat two kilometres Team Neo Raid's Piotr Beaupre and Jacek Lisicki took from the arrival! their BMW X3 CC to 16th place, and 6th in T1.2 class Motul was also present through Legend Stunt Team of modified 4WD diesels. Lei Zhong and Zhaohui and the Motul Extreme Show which crossed paths Wang experienced a more chaotic rally but their Nis- with the rally for an exhilarating performance at the san Pathfinder came home 64th, and 6th in Open start of stage two in Kazan, Tatarstan.

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