2024 FIM Endurance Team World Champion
Winner of multiple FIM Endurance Team World Championships, in 2021 the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team joined forces with Japanese specialist Yoshimura to form Yoshimura SERT Motuland achieved immediate success.
That first season its three-rider team of Gregg Black, Xavier Simeon and Sylvain Guintoli won the title and this year Black–racing along side fellow Frenchman Étienne Masson and Britain’s Dan Linfoot–returned to the top to reclaim the FIM Endurance Team World Champion crown.
The team got its 2024 campaign off to a winning start at the Circuit Bugatti at Le Mans in France in mid-April with victory at the fabled 24 Heures Motos, but two months later its lead was cut to just a single point after finishing behind defending champion YART Yamaha at the 8 Hours of Spa Moto sat the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.
The following month the action shifted to Japan for the forty-fifth running of the iconic Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours where Yoshimura SERT Motul finished off the podium and lost the series lead before the titlewas decided at the Bol d’Or 2024 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France in mid-September where Yoshimura SERT Motul finished first to regain the coveted crown.
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FIM Endurance Team World Champion - 2021, 2024
2021 FIM Endurance Team World Champion
NEW TEAM, SAME OUTCOME!
Last season reigning champions Suzuki Endurance Racing Team announced an exciting new partnership with Japanese endurance specialist Yoshimura to form Yoshimura SERT Motul.
Both sides of the partnership had impeccable credentials in the sport – the French-based Suzuki team had sixteen FIM Endurance Team World Championship titles to its name and Yoshimura had won the famed Suzuka 8 Hours four times – and it is safe to say it has proved to be a match made in heaven!
Kicking off with victory at the 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans in mid-June where the team finished eight laps clear of its nearest rivals, one month later the trio travelled to Portugal for the 12 Hours of Estoril.
It was a tough day at the office for the team which, after two crashes, limped home all the way back in a lowly twelfth – seventeen laps down on the winners – which dropped them to fourth in the championship standings at the halfway point of the season.
The legendary Bol d’Or at the Paul Ricard circuit was next up on the calendar at the end of August and the team dominated, opening up a nineteen-lap advantage at the end of twenty-four hours of no-holds-barred racing.
More importantly, the result catapulted them straight back to the top of the rankings with only October’s 6 Hours of Most in the Czech Republic to go where a rock-solid third-placed finish was enough to claim the championship by a comfortable thirty-two-and-a-half points.
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FIM Endurance Team World Champion - 2021
