Plenty to play France Pirelli’s circular while Yamaha can seal the 2020 brand champion name.
After the drama of the Ronda de Catalunya, the FIM Supersport World Championship heads to the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours for the penultimate round of the Championship, with the Drivers’ Championship still a long way to go to go up and down the grid at the Pirelli French Rond. There is a strong house presence promising to bring full-scale battles to Champion Andrea Locatelli (BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team), as the Italian heads to another new circuit.
Locatelli’s winning streak might have ended in an astonishing way in race 1 in Catalonia, but he responded perfectly in race 2 to claim his tenth win of the season and secure the drivers’ championship. Magny-Cours is a new circuit for italian, however, the new circuits have not prevented him from winning so far in 2020, as Locatelli will seek to continue his dominant season and end the year with more victories and more records in what is already a historic season. His Yamaha BARDAHL team suffered a double dropout last year. and hopes the possibility will return to its appearance this year.
Now in the championship, Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) took two positions at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and now the Frenchman will make it bigger in his home career and get his first 2020 win at Magny-Cours in 2019. After one last lap with Isaac Visales (Kallio Racing) and has 3 podiums in his last 4 races, without completing the 4 most sensitive in the WorldSSP outdoors. Mahias can be a national hero again.
Jules Cluzel (GMT94 Yamaha), which has not had compatibility for Catalonia, is lately on the list of participants for the WorldSSP scale in Magny-Cours, but will have to be declared compatibility for the round; Cluzel suffered two left leg fractures following a fall in the Round Pirelli Teruel with Raffaele De Rosa (MV Agusta Reparto Corse). It’s a circuit that Cluzel is fine to have won 4 times on the WorldSSP and that’s the home of the Yamaha Team GMT94.
After a strong Catalan weekend, German rookie Philipp Oettl (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) is visiting a new track, but hopes Montmelo’s momentum will move him forward. Oettl would possibly compete in Magny-Cours for the first time in his career, but the German has shown stable speed throughout the season and hopes to be able to return to the podium and perhaps even win the first.
Italian driver Raffaele de Rosa is fifth in the championship after fighting from pit lane in race 1 to 14 and fourth in race 2 and will look for his stable pace. De Rosa’s most productive result at WorldSSP in Magny-Cours was fourth. achieved last year, however, it has consistently improved its effects on each and every race here. He finished 12th in his first race on the circuit in 2013 before returning to WorldSSP five years later with the seventh. Magny-Cours, securing a position among the 10 most sensitive in Race 2 in 2017.
Corentin Perolari (GMT94 Yamaha) gave the impression of thriving as the only full-time driver of the Yamaha GMT94 team in the Catalonia circular and showed stable speed at all times; He fights in the leading organization and, in the early stages of any of the races, leads the platoon. Perolari has raced twice at Magny-Cours in the WorldSSP, achieving the seven most sensible in 2018 and 2019.
Race 1 Catalunya winner Andy Verdoïa (bLU cRU WorldSSP via MS Racing) is full of confidence after his surprise victory and will be looking to fight among the 10 most sensitive, this time in front of his home crowd. Magny-Cours in 2019 while on worldSSP300; He hopes the delight of the track will give him slight credit over some of his competitors.
Two One-Event riders take part in the French pirelli circular with Stéphane Frossard (Moto Team Jura Vitesse) and Karel Hanika (WRP Wepol Racing) covered on the grid. Hanika has the joy of WorldSBK having won two problems in Laguna Seca in 2018 and joined Danny Webb in the team led through James Toseland, while Frossard last competed in WorldSSP the same year. Yamaha will seal the constructors’ championship by 2020 leading Kawasaki in 3 problems in both races; a Yamaha motorcycle in the 12 most sensible will crown the Champion of the Japanese manufacturer, regardless of Kawasaki’s performance.
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Episode thirteen of the VROOM podcast presented through Michael Hill, with special visitors Randy Krummenacher – World Champion SSP 2019, and TJ Toms – British Superstock Driver 600 . . . plus a look at the weekend’s motorsport.
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