| 2010 Maxxis
24th Annual
Pont de Vaux 12 Hour ATV Race
Pont de Vaux, France
August 20-22, 2010
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Yamaha's Romain Couprie
Wins & USA Motoworks Team Podiums
Jeremie Warnia, Josh
Frederick, Dillon Zimmerman Podium at
Pont de Vaux
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Pont
de Vaux, France (8/23/2010)
– The 24th Annual Maxxis 12 Hours of Ponte
de Vaux in France was held his weekend, and two
USA teams made the trip across the Atlantic to
compete with Can-Am / Motoworks (Jeremie Warnia,
Josh Frederick, Dillon Zimmerman) claiming the
second spot on the Podium after a third stage
win, and the FRE / KTM team were back again with
Bryan Cook, Shane Hitt, and Josh Upperman finishing
eight overall after an early charge for a podium
finish
Both the USA Teams came out swinging in practice
with the pair going 1-2 in time qualifiers with
FRE/ KTM claiming the pole position start with
the fastest time followed by the Motoworks / Can-Am
Team with times nearly 2 seconds faster than than
third place with 107 teams competing.
Both Can-Am & KTM finished on the lead lap
in stage one with 3rd & 4th place finishes,
but in the second sesssion of the race, both teams
lost some ground finishing outside the top five
with Motoworks taking 6th followed by KTM with
9th.
In the final session, the Motoworks / Can-Am
Team came on strong to claim the session win,
which boosted them to a 2nd place overall finish,
and the KTM team finished back in 16th, which
secured them a top ten finish with 8th overall
out of 107 teams.
Congratulations goes out to the team lead by
Romain Couprie for claiming the overall win for
his second win in three years, and joining him
on the team where Paul Holmes and Joe Maessen.
The final podium spot went to the all french team
of Mathieu Ternynck and Clément Jay.
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