Another faultless run saw YART pick up its third win of the season after its previous successes at Le Mans and Oschersleben. The result extends the team’s score to 95 points in the championship standings and put its in a strong position in the chase for the 2009 title.
 
The Austrian bike started the race from [...]

Four hours into the race, the YART bike tops the provisional 8 Hours of Albacete leaderboard with a one-lap advantage over its closest chasers.
 
 

After starting from pole position, the MICHELIN Power Research Team bike is currently fifth. Yvan Silva had been leading but fell during his first stint, although he was able to rejoin the [...]

It is already hot weather in the track for the warm-up.
 
 
 

 
Credit photos : Eric Celis

 
Some photos of YART
 

Crédit photos : Eric Celis

Some photos of MICHELIN Power Research Team :
 

 
Credit photos : Eric Celis

Rk           Nº            Team                                                    Cat.        Riders 1-2-3                                       Average Lap

1             63           MICHELIN POWER R.T.                     EWC       MONGE-Silva-Costes                        01:32,389
2             7             Y.AUSTRIA RACING TEAM                EWC       JERMAN-Martin-Giabbani                01:32,581
3             14           BK MACO RACING T.                        EWC      PRIDMORE-Ribalta-Carrasco         01:33,246
4             5             TEAM [...]

 
For the first time in its history, the MICHELIN Power Research Team bike will start from pole position when this weekend’s 8 Hours of Albacete gets underway at 6pm on Saturday evening.
Ivan Silva set a blistering time of 1m 31.4s which was the best performance of the day.
YART finished on the N°63 bike’s heels in [...]

 
The combination of the absence of live television coverage, the extremely tight schedule and the hot weather has prompted the stewards – with the agreement of the teams – to drop the Superpole session which had initially been planned for 11am tomorrow morning. The warm-up has been brought forward to 10.25am. There will be a [...]

 
The fastest time of free practice ahead of this weekend’s 8 Hours of Albacete was posted by Spaniard Ivan Silva who recorded a 1m 31.7s on the N°63 MICHELIN Power Research Team Honda.
The second best lap was the work of current Endurance World Championship leaders YART with a 1m 33.2s, while the gaps are extremely [...]

Friday, July, 3rd :
 
09h15 – 10h15 : Free Practices
11h15 – 12h15 : Free Practices
14h30 – 15h00 : 1st Qualifying Practices – 1st Group
15h10 – 15h40 : 1st Qualifying Practices – 2nd Group
15h50 – 16h20: 1st Qualifying Practices – 3rd Group
18h30 – 19h00 : 2nd Qualifying Practices – 1st Group
19h10 – [...]