2011
Maxxis 25th Annual Pont de Vaux 12 Hour
ATV Race Pont de Vaux, France
August 20-22, 2011
By: Bill Lanphier |
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2011 25th Maxxis Pont
de Vaux 12 Hour ATV Endurance Race
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The winner is logically in the first
fifteen of qualifing
The hierarchy of the 25th running emerges as a
result of the trials session. The victory will
be played theoretically between the first fifteen.
Under a beautiful sun, the KTM SX (No. 63) of
the French Adolff Bruno, the German Stefan Schreiber
and the Italian Naicol Farri finished at the first
position of this 25th anniversary. The team Flying
Devils Quad (87) ahead 2 seconds of one another
KTM XC, the Belgian team, Davy Decuyper, Auke
Theuninck associated with the English James Hellewell.
The third lap is for the French team Race Comas
Motos.Yoann Ciclet, Yann Cornier Sébastien
Magnin with a Suzuki LTR (6). Romain Couprie (1)
just like last year, is fourteenth, which had
not stopped him to win the Mondial last year with
37 seconds advance.
Indeed, fifteen drivers fall below 3 minutes.
Logically the future winner is among them. In
this theoretical hierarchy, all the brands link
their wheels, Yam 3, 2 KTM, Suzuki 4, 2 Can-Am,
Honda 2, 1 W-tec and 1 TBS FIU. But now, the heat
may disrupt all the predictions. With a temperature
up to 39 degrees this weekend, men and machines
will suffer.
Among the women teams top ten, domination of
the Mackin Girls Team (18). The Northern Irish
grant themselves the 37th chrono. And what a chrono
! A 3.05.807, less than 7 seconds from Couprie,
the 2010 winner. Emma Mackin, Kelly and Emma McQuaid
Verbraeken turned ten seconds faster than the
French Séverine Astier, Amandine Dorey,
Christelle Tarillon (69).
Starting 15 hours.
At halfway, Couprie temporarily takes
the lead
After one hour and a half of race, the winner
Romain Couprie (1) took the lead on a quartet
made up of the Belgian Thomas Remacle (10), the
French Yoann Ciclet (6), the English Paul Winrow
(7) and the French Adrien Mangieu (26). The official
Yamaha caught up progressively the ranking.
However the first leader, the Belgian Davy Decuyper,
author of a great start, was forced to return
to his stand for a mechanical problem on his KTM
XC.
Nothing is playing, the leaders follow one another
of almost one turn on each, over the driver changes.
The heat may have an impact on the balance both
physically and mechanically.
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