Blancpain Endurance Series / Buncombe - Chiyo - Reip / Nissan GT Academy / Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 25 / 06 / 2015 Motul.Sport.News 25 ENGLISH VERSION Motul.Sport.News 25 Blancpain Endurance Series 1000 / Paul Ricard Round 01 02 03 04 05 Buncombe - Chiyo - Reip / Nissan GT Academy / Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 First win for Nissan GT Academy in Pro category! In splendid weather and a temperature of 28°C, the enjoyed an ideal weekend, with incident-free pit stops, Paul Ricard circuit hosted the third round of the Blanc- (…). It’s a fantastic result!’ pain Endurance Series, on 21 June. Among the 61 cars For the same team, Motul also supported the Nissan that took the start, Motul provided its technical support contending in Pro Am, but technical problems made it to team Nissan GT Academy, which gave a particularly fall back while battling for the podium against the BMW brilliant race. The battle was very fierce among the lead Z4 of another Motul team, Thiriet by TDS Racing, which cars. Buncombe, Reip and Chiyo’s Nissan took advan- also suffered misfortune due to a collision in the 70th tage of a penalised contender to get ahead, but inter- lap that forced it to quit. vention by the safety car made it lose this lead, which After a test day on 24 June in Spa, the 24 Hours of Spa led to an all-out sprint to the arrival. At the arrival, the is the next event of the Blancpain Endurance Series, two lead cars were separated by a mere 8 seconds, so from 21 to 26 July. imagine the fierceness of the rivalry during the 6 hour Pro Results long race! It’s the first win for this team in Pro cate- 01 / Reip-Buncombe-Chiyo, Nissan GT A. Team RJN gory, which led Alex Buncombe to say: ‘We have been 02 / Smith-Meyrick-Kan, Bentley M-Sport trying for some time to bag the win, so it’s particularly satisfying to clinch it at the end of this 6 hour race. We 03 / Paltalla-Luhr-Martin, BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS News and videos also available on: www.youtube.com/motul www.facebook.com/motul Motul.Sport.News 25 Super GT / Buriram Round 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Super GT / MOLA / S Road MOLA GT-R Motul teams take top honours in Buriram! It was a fantastic outing from NISMO and Motul suppor- GT300 respectively. All in all, after an unfortunate reti- ted teams at the third round of the 2015 AUTOBACS rement by #38 ZENT CERUMO RC F, another Motul- SUPER. Chang International Circuit in Buriram hosted partnered team, Masataka Yanagida brought home his this year’s only out-of-Japan round. S ROAD MOLA GT-R in first, with a 7.931s gap esta- The weekend not only played host to the fastest GT blished over the 66-lap race. cars in the world, but also one-make Toyota and Honda In GT300, the #3 GT-R, started in 2nd and took the lead races. Motul was present through its support to many shortly after the rolling start. It crossed the line 9.231s teams throughout the various championships, and ahead of its closest contender, to complete a top step many had outstanding results. In Super GT, Motul pro- finish for both Motul and NISMO in GT300 and GT500! ducts were used in no less than 10 cars spanning both A two-year extension was also signed during the wee- GT300 and GT500. kend between the management of GTA and Chang #1 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R, the reigning GT500 cham- International Circuit. pions from 2014, started down in 13th and was carrying a significant 40kg weight handicap as a result of the previous round’s results. Despite that, outstanding dri- GT500 Results ving by both Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli 01 / S Road Mola GT-R, Mola moved the Motul car up to an extremely decent 5th 02 / Eneos Sustina RC F, Lexus Team place at the arrival Qualifying day saw good results for #46 S Road MOLA 03 / Keihin NSX Concept-GT, Keihin Real Racing GT-R and #3 B-MAX NDDP GT-R, racing in GT500 and 05 / Motul Autech GT-R, Nismo News and videos also available on: www.youtube.com/motul www.facebook.com/motul Motul.Sport.News 25 FIM MXGP / Teutschenthal Round 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gautier Paulin / Team HRC / Honda CRF 450 RW New win for Gautier Paulin and Honda HRC! No less than 32,000 spectators watched the tenth We were very pleased to see Gautier ride like he did.’ round of the MXGP world championship on the German At Suzuki Rockstar, Clément Desalle’s absence is Teutschenthal circuit, on 22 June. Local favourite, Max being felt, but Kevin Strijbos is defending his team’s Nagl, was leading the provisional standings on arriving colours energetically: his efforts allowed him to secure on the spot but suffered a fall and injury, which forced fifth place in race one and mount the podium in race him to leave the circuit: it’s the hard law of motocross, two, which he finished third. His performance also al- also undergone by Clément Desalle who, for Motul-par- lows him to be third overall. tnered Rockstar Energy Suzuki, is still convalescing. Following a fall in the trials, his team-mate Glenn Col- For Motul teams, the weekend was nevertheless denhoff left only in sixteenth position but pushed crowned with success, thanks in particular to Gautier forward to ninth place in race one. Paulin who won race two after coming third in race Next event in Sweden, in Uddevalla, on 5 July. one, which allows him to move up to fourth place in the provisional standings. His team-mate, Evgeny Results Race 2 MXGP Bobryshev, also bagged a fine performance by secu- 01 / Gautier Paulin, Honda ring second place in race one. Thanks to these bril- liant results, Honda HRC (for which Motul is a techni- 02 / Romain Fevre, Yamaha cal partner) is back at the forefront, prompting team 03 / Kevin Strijbos, Suzuki manager Roger Harvey to say: ‘We knew we were 07 / Evgeny Bobryshev, Honda capable of mounting the highest step of the podium, but that quite simply didn’t work out in the latest races. 12 / Glenn Coldenhoff, Suzuki News and videos also available on: www.youtube.com/motul www.facebook.com/motul Motul.Sport.News 25 Suzuki Gixxer Cup / Coimbatore Round 01 02 03 04 05 Suzuki Gixxer Cup Motul-partnered Suzuki Gixxer Cup gets off the ground in India! The opening round of the 2015 Suzuki Gixxer Cup years of age) with each class having two races per round. successfully got underway at the Kari Motor Speed- New to their machines on day one, the 40 riders set out way circuit in Coimbatore, India, with a full line-up of in two batches (Novice & Open) for practice sessions, riders and exciting racing throughout its two classes. followed by their feedback to Suzuki’s technical team Continuing their worldwide partnership with various who prepared all the 150cc Gixxer SF machines and Suzuki factory racing programmes, such as Team Su- then worked to make individual adjustments for all riders. zuki MotoGP, and Rockstar Energy Suzuki in MXGP, Sunday’s racing provided great entertainment to the Motul will participate in this new championship as a enthusiastic spectators with a total of four main races. technical partner and provide its range of products And being a one-make series, all riders began on a for the entire grid. This partnership even extends to level playing field and this made for some very close beyond the circuit, as Motul is also the exclusive lubri- and exciting racing. cant supplier for the Suzuki Gixxer range in India. Round two of the Suzuki Gixxer Cup is scheduled from The new one-make Suzuki series comprises two catego- 10 to 12 July at the Madras Motor Race Track in Chen- ries: Novice (under 23 years of age) and Open (over 23 nai, with a total of five rounds planned for the year. News and videos also available on: www.youtube.com/motul www.facebook.com/motul Motul.Sport.News 25 SuperGP / Mpumalanga Round 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Anthony Shelley / ETR Performance Yamaha / Yamaha R6 Win for ETR Performance in SuperGP! Round four of the South African SuperGP champion- to bag second time in free practice. During the race, ship took place on 14 June on the Race Star Raceway while Stephen Odendaal was pushing forward in the close to Delmas. The two SuperGP riders of Motul- lead, wear in his tyres after a few laps allowed the lead partnered team ETR Performance Yamaha were not pack to catch up and Anthony Shelley took the lead familiar with the circuit but nevertheless obtained ex- of the race before being passed in turn and finishing cellent results there. Mathew Scholtz clinched second fourth. Race two was equally exciting and Anthony time in free practice which allowed him to start from was one of the group of four intent on winning and who front line in race one. Battling it out with Clint Seller jostled to be in the lead. This time he mounted the throughout the race, Mathew managed to get the third step of the podium after securing the lap record, better of him, taking the win, his team-mate, Bran- and clinched fourth place overall. don Goode, finishing third.