YZF-R1M Wins In The Hands Of Guarnoni In France

2015-10-05 06:10
With Kev Coghlan (MRS Yamaha) and Florian Marino (MRS Yamaha) missing the final round of the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup through injury their places were taken by Lukas Trautmann and Mathieu Gines but it was race winner Jeremy Guarnoni (Team Trasimeno Yamaha) who made all the headlines on home asphalt.

This was the first win for the new YZF-R1M in its debut Superstock 1000 FIM Cup season.

Starting from pole position after a popular hometown qualifying success, Guarnoni was part of a superb battle for the win in a race where early leader Ondrej Jezek fell and the final fight for the 25-points was between four riders.

Potential podium rider Riccardo Russo (G.M. Racing Yamaha) fell on the penultimate lap, or it would have been a five rider fight for the top three places.

Gines was part of the final contest for the win, finishing fourth and just off the podium - and missing the victory by only 1.811 seconds. Trautmann was 12th in the tricky track conditions and MG Competition rider Christoffer Bergman was 13th.


Jeremy Guarnoni

1st / 25'26.713 / 15 laps
"It was unbelievable to win in front of my people in Magny-Cours - and for Yamaha as well since it is the first win in Stock 1000 with the new bike. That was the most difficult race ever for me in this class because I had a really bad start. Jezek had a big gap in the first lap so I said to myself it would be very hard to catch him. He crashed and then I pushed and pushed. I saw that Riccardo Russo was really close and when he passed me I was a little bit disturbed. In the final lap I pushed hard and said to myself 'go for the win or crash!'. I passed De Rosa and made a really fast final lap."



2015 STK1000 France
Magny Cours 05/10/2015
race I
1 Jeremy Guarnoni Yamaha FRA 25'26.713
2 Kevin Calia Aprilia ITA 0'01.019
3 Raffaele De Rosa Ducati ITA 0'01.307
4 Mathieu Gines Yamaha FRA 0'01.811
5 Roberto Tamburini BMW ITA 0'03.297
6 Fabio Massei Ducati ITA 0'06.499
7 Alessandro Andreozzi Aprilia ITA 0'07.979
8 Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia ITA 0'17.296
9 Bryan Staring Kawasaki AUS 0'20.239
10 Federico D'Annunzio BMW ITA 0'20.460
11 Sebastien Suchet Kawasaki CHE 0'21.464
12 Lukas Trautmann Yamaha AUT 0'28.731
13 Christoffer Bergman Yamaha SWE 0'32.904
14 Marc Moser Ducati DE 0'33.063
15 Eric Vionnet BMW CHE 0'34.851

STK1000 World Standing
Rider Standings After Race 12 of 8
1. Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia ITA 164
2. Roberto Tamburini BMW ITA 142
3. Raffaele De Rosa Ducati ITA 121
4. Jeremy Guarnoni Yamaha FRA 91
5. Ondrej Jezek Ducati CZE 82
6. Kev Coghlan Yamaha GBR 72
7. Kevin Calia Aprilia ITA 63
8. Fabio Massei Ducati ITA 60
9. Bryan Staring Kawasaki AUS 53
10. Christoffer Bergman Yamaha SWE 35
11. Florian Marino Yamaha FRA 23
12. Tony Coveña Ducati NLD 21
13. Marc Moser Ducati DE 18
14. Sebastien Suchet Kawasaki CHE 18
15. Sylvain Barrier Yamaha FRA 17
16. Luca Salvadori Ducati ITA 16
17. Luca Marconi Yamaha ITA 16
18. Lukas Trautmann Yamaha AUT 14
19. Mathieu Gines Yamaha FRA 13
20. Riccardo Russo Yamaha ITA 13
27. Mathew Scholtz Yamaha ZAF 4
32. Michele Magnoni Yamaha ITA 2
37. Danny De Boer Yamaha NLD 0

Source: Yamaha Motor Europe N.V.

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