Bmw Moto : Un Sacré Pas En Avant, Pour Un Chouette Coup De Pied Au Cul

[Steph]

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C'était au bol d'or ? J'ai un peu raté le machin because hosto, ils ont fait combien ? Ils ont un C.R. de course qui traine kkpart ?

[Simplet]

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C'était bien au bol d'or, 6ème en superstock je crois me souvenir.
Mais j'ai dû bazarder le communiqué de presse [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_sad.gif[/img]

Je viens néanmoins de retrouver ça

<!--quoteo-->CITATION<!--quotec-->Another successful test of endurance for S 1000 RR

Last weekend saw the annual staging of the famous Bol d’Or 24-hour race, which took place at the Magny-Cours circuit in France. Held as part of the Endurance World Championship, this historic race attracts in excess of 50,000 spectators who come to join the party that lasts for the whole weekend and watch lots of private teams – many of them French – compete against the world championship regulars on their factory machinery.



In the past, the BMW Motorrad Motorsport team has participated and enjoyed success in the Open class on the HP2 Sport, but with its attentions now firmly focused on the Superbike World Championship, there would be no factory representation at this prestigious event. However, a private team from Poland riding a series production BMW S 1000 RR, took on more than 50 other teams and finished in a remarkable fourth place in the Superstock Class, and a commendable 12th place in the overall standings, after 24 hours and 766 laps of the 4.2-km Magny-Cours circuit.

The BMW Sikora Bily Prorace team – consisting of riders Ireneusz Sikora from Poland, Tomas Miksovsky and Milos Cihak from the Czech Republic – were joined by BMW Motorrad’s Gerhard Lindner, who is responsible for the durability testing and development of BMW Motorrad’s series production motorcycles. Gerhard had recently enjoyed success with the Spanish Busquets dealership team at the ‘24 Hores Frigo de Motociclisme’ endurance race in Barcelona, so was keen to fly the flag for BMW in France too.

As such, he took two standard test bikes from Germany to France and with the help of team manager Thomas Eckardt (who has lots of past experience with the BMW Motorrad Motorsport factory squad) ensured that there was a BMW motorcycle present in the starting line-up at Magny-Cours and ready to race against a packed grid full of Suzuki, Kawasaki, Honda and Yamaha machines.

One of Lindner’s roles in Munich is to find – by extensive testing – any weaknesses and stresses to a motorcycle’s engine and chassis, and incorporate any improvements into a new model’s ongoing development. Obviously, endurance racing is one of the best (and most enjoyable) ways of doing this, so the two machines taken to the French circuit had already completed around 6,000 kilometres of hard testing, but Lindner was confident in the bikes’ capability to make it to the end of this gruelling 24-hour marathon ride.



“It was a great experience to take the BMW S 1000 RR to the Bol d’Or,” he said. “There were a lot of factors working against us; for example, time was extremely tight as we only had two weeks to prepare the two series production bikes for racing. This meant that there was no time to test them during the official tests at the end of August in Magny-Cours, so our first experience was directly at the race weekend! Furthermore, it was our first time on Michelin tyres and the first time we had all ridden together as a team.

“Added to this, our spare bike was destroyed by one of the riders in a high-speed crash during practice, so we were left with just the one machine for the entire 24-hour race! With this in mind, it was a case of making sure we went as fast as possible without crashing, and finished the race, rather than pushed ourselves to the limit to try to challenge for the victory.”

Fortunately for Gerhard and the team, their single remaining S 1000 RR ran perfectly right throughout the day and night, and by the time the 2009 Bol d’Or finished at just after three o’clock on the Sunday afternoon, the BMW riders had completed 766 laps of the circuit at an average speed of 140.67 km/h. Despite the intense heat, which had caused problems for many other machines (25 per cent of the teams failed to finish the race), the only problem that Gerhard and his teammates suffered was brake fade.

“In truth, we didn’t know what to expect as it often rains at the Bol d’Or but this year was unusually warm, so many of the teams were having problems with engine cooling and brake pad wear. There’s one corner on the circuit where you have to brake hard from about 280 km/h to 50 km/h and because we didn’t want to take any risks, we ended up changing our pads every hour, rather than every two hours, which we had originally anticipated. This took an extra minute each time and probably cost us around 10 to 12 laps over 24 hours but at least it saw us to the end of the race.



“That was the only issue we had, which is remarkable considering that we hadn’t had a chance to test anything, and some of our spare parts only arrived on the Thursday night, when my girlfriend brought them with her on the plane! The team worked remarkably hard and although it would have been great to make it onto the podium, we’re extremely pleased with these results. We finished in front of all the Yamaha and Ducati teams, as well as many of the Endurance World Championship regulars. Plus, with all the data we’ve been able to collect from here, we can now compare it to the information we derived from the race in Barcelona, which will help us immensely with the ongoing development of the S 1000 RR.”

As the only BMW team present at the Bol d’Or, there was naturally a lot of interest in the new Superbike, which attracted a lot of interest in its series production and racing colours, especially in the public pit walk. Furthermore, Chris Pfeiffer had been invited to the event to perform his stunt shows in connection with the launch of F 800 R Replica, and took the opportunity to include the new S 1000 RR in his routine. For BMW Motorrad France’s Jean Michel Cavret, it was a great opportunity to put BMW ‘on the map’ at the annual motorcycling extravaganza:

“In France, we have a big Endurance culture and the ‘24 hours of Le Mans’ race in April and the Bol d’Or are well known for attracting thousands of sports bike fans every year, so it was great that there was a BMW team present,” he said. “Furthermore, Chris Pfeiffer really got the crowds cheering when he did part of his show on an S 1000 RR before the start of the race. As usual, the atmosphere at the Bol d’Or was electric and the party went on well into the night. More importantly, the BMW team kept going all through the night and the next day until the chequered flag came out the following afternoon, with impressive results achieved along the way. Congratulations to the team, as they have much to be proud of with this achievement.”<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Steph]

Merci [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[Simplet]

[Steph]

Schöne combarde !

(enfin faut pas trop glisser à l'envers quand même, parce que les 2 pièces mêmes racordées par un zip...)



Envoie le reste des photos !

[Dams]

J'aime bien en blanc/bleu/rouge M

Mais ça vaut pas un RSV4 Aprilia.

Ce sont en tout cas les 2 sportives les plus bandantes du moment. Dommage qu'elles soient dispensées de siège passager.

[Fr3d]

Tu voulais pas une Haya ?

[Simplet]

Vais essayer de récupérer la vidéo d'un concessionnaire qui a filmé quelques tours.

[Simplet]

Quelques photos de rab' avec ma trogne (le gars équipé Alpinestars)

[CatDreamer]

J'espère que les RR sont pas hautes de selle...

[Simplet]

J'espère que les RR sont pas hautes de selle...

Hauteur de selle standard, ça ne gêne pas pour déhancher

[ec]

Quelques photos de rab' avec ma trogne (le gars équipé Alpinestars)

ou celui qui fait une tete de moins

[Simplet]

En même temps sur ma gauche il fait 1m98 et 105 kilos donc le contraste est forcément saisissant

[Simplet]

193cv, ça donne chaud, surtout en Espagne ....

[Steph]

En même temps sur ma gauche il fait 1m98 et 105 kilos donc le contraste est forcément saisissant

Il devait surtout pleurer dans les relances !

Chouettes clichés.