World FIM MotoGP / / Tech 3 Team / Yamaha YZR-M1

27.03.2012 Motul . Sport . News # 12 Version française Motul . Sport . News # 12

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Andrea Dovizioso - / Tech 3 Team / Yamaha YZR-M1

Yamaha best private team at the Jerez tests

In the World MotoGP Championship, we have now been in the six best.’ For Crutchlow, ‘We could see got to the heart of the matter, now that the Sepang that the bike was working very well also on a track with and Jerez tests are over. Motul is accompanying once more bends than that at Sepang where it had already more team Yamaha Tech3 which, for the 2012 season, behaved very well.’ has signed up Andrea Dovizioso, 3rd last year in the As for Hervé Poncharal, team manager, he is impa- championship, and Cal Crutchlow, 11th in 2011. tiently awaiting the first races:‘We have the best team At the Sepang tests, the team had achieved fine per- of riders in all the history of Tech3, and I trust they’ll formances, Dovizioso finishing with the 3rd time and obtain solid results!’ Crutchlow 5th. At Jerez, on 23-25 March, rain distur- Just a bit more patience before the first round on bed the first two days of tests but, on the third day, the 5 April in Qatar. riders put in lap after lap: 83 for the British rider and 72 for his team-mate who was hindered at the start by an Best lap upset stomach. At the end of this session, Crutchlow held 5th time and Dovizioso 7th, which placed Tech3 in 01 / – Factory the lead of private teams by a wide margin. The Italian 02 / – Yamaha Factory rider worked on his style to adapt it to the Yamaha 03 / – Honda Factory YZR-M1, completely new for him: ‘We put in a lot of 05 / Cal Crutchlow - Yamaha Tech3 work to improve the machine’s stability on the way out of corners. With a bit more time I’m sure I could have 07 / Andrea Dovizioso - Yamaha Tech3

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International Snowmobile Race / Karelia

Ski Doo

Snowmobiles compete in Russia’s powder snow

Minus 26° centigrade: that was the temperature get closer to the participants and admire their dexterity measured at Nurmolitsy, in the heart of Karelia, on the in deep snow. Next to the village of Nurmolitsy, on an occasion of the eighth Open Karelia which took place open track on the edge of the snow covered pines, from 26 to 30 January. Easily reached from Saint Pe- the riders gave spectacular demonstrations, just like tersburg, on the other side of Lake Ladoga, this region Freestyle specialist Jussi Pennamen, performing a of wilderness forests and frozen lakes is ideal terrain succession of rapid leaps and turns while raising high for the hundred or so snowmobiling specialists to billows of powdery snow. show their mettle in this friendly international competi- The start and arrival of the Sprint-Cross race also took tion sponsored by Motul Russia. place close to the spectators who were duly warmed This year, in addition to the traditional individual and up by the friendly atmosphere of these few days of team Cross-Country and Enduro events, the organi- delights. Even children could take part, in the events sers came up with a new idea allowing the public to reserved for them.

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Supermoto indoor / Tours

Frédéric Guerin / 450 / Triple 5 team

First outing for Fred Guérin on his Suzuki 450

The Supermoto world came out of hibernation from 16 an outdoor straight line. And Fred, who clinched excel- to 18 March for the Indoor Tours event which hosted lent times in the first tests, experienced a tyre problem: the first round of the Open Championship and a Pres- ‘I had rain tyres but the track dried in the meanwhile tige race. Frédéric Guérin, of team Triple 5, to which and, as I didn’t have my spare wheels ready, I couldn’t Motul provides its technical assistance, was back on change tyres’, he explained. He was put on the second the track for the first time since his ankle injury. Cham- line but managed to finish a brilliant third. In the second pion of France 2010 and 2011 in category S3 (125- final (with a start in reverse order to the arrivals of the 350 cc), he is upping his game this year, at the early first race), he came th6 at the end of the first lap, but age of 19, in the Prestige category (350-750 cc) on a ‘I wanted to speed a bit too much and pass the 5th and, Suzuki 450. in a little collision, my ankle scraped the ground and This highly spectacular discipline, which originated in I hurt myself...’. the United States, combines hard packed and asphalt This first run in this category remains very positive gi- sections, which makes it a ‘sliding’ festival. This year, ven the times achieved. It’s definitely promising for the even rain joined in because, although the Tours track first round of the Prestige Championship on 29 April at is the only indoor supermoto one in France, it includes Villars-sous-Ecot.

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Pan Delta Racing Festival / Zhuhai Round 01 02 03

Dan Kruger / Kawasaki Team / Kawasaki

Dan Kruger starts the season with a fine second place

Three times a year, the very popular Zhuhai circuit (‘ZIC’, Zhuhai International Circuit), in China, hosts the ‘Pan Delta Racing Festival’. Various car events take place here and acrobatic demonstrations in a joyful atmosphere. also take part in the festival, for the Chinese Superbike Championship. In front of thousands of spectators, the first festival of the year took place on 18 March. Dan Kruger, the Ca- nadian rider of team Kawasaki, sponsored by Motul, won in the two races an excellent 2nd place, behind Fujita Takuya. ‘I’m the only North American rider to have participated in the series in the past four years’, Pan Delta Superbike Standings said Dan. ‘But you see riders of all nationalities here, 01 / Fujita Takuya - Yamaha of a very high level’. 02 / Dan Kruger - Kawasaki The next meeting is scheduled for June at the same 03 / Huang Shizhao - Yamaha circuit.

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Prize giving ceremony / Cancun

Carlos Macaya - Benjamin de la Pena - José Sanchez - Pierre de Thoisy

A brand new Car Museum in Cancun

A brand new Car Museum has just opened in Can- He also broke the road Speed Record at 316 km/h, cun (Mexico) devoted inter alia to the history of the in the 2003 rally... In front of some 200 guests, Pier- legendary rally created in 1950, the ‘Carrera Pana- re received a trophy as well as a diploma from the mericana Mexico’. local authorities represented by Messrs. José San- Benjamin de la Peña, a gentleman driver and repu- chez, Chairman of the FMAD (Mexican Motorsports table solicitor in Cancun, has collected, compiled Federation) and Miguel Borge, former Governor of and shown to best effect here the greatest number the State of Quintana Roo. of existing archives on this rally which fascinates so Don Carlos Panini and his daughter, Thérèse Gou- much worldwide: photos, videos, books, miscella- bert Panini, were also greatly honoured for their par- neous literature, and the standings of all the specials ticipation in 1951 in an Alfa Roméo. from 1950 to 1954 and then from 1988 to 2011, Benjamin De La Peña encourages all enthusiasts without forgetting personal objects that belonged to passing through Cancun to make sure they visit his the greatest motorsport drivers... museum. Apart from extremely rare archives, you In mid March, on the occasion of an evening paying can also discover the road book compiled by Juan tribute to yesterday’s and today’s drivers, French- Manuel Fangio, winner in 1953 in a Lancia D24! man Pierre de Thoisy, a driver for teams supported by Motul, was the guest of honour. The latter indeed Further information: won the rally seven times between 1997 and 2007! www.museocarrerapanamericana.com

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