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Race Result Kawasaki France have won the Albacete 6 Hour round of the QMMF Endurance FIM World Championship. SERT Suzuki took second place and Folch Yamaha Third. 
QERT Kawasaki were fourth, ahead of Kawasaki Bolliger who passed the impressively quick FCC TSR Honda as night fell. Yamaha Moto 38 were seventh, Suzuki Sapeurs Pompiers eighth, Yamaha Austria ninth (after climbing back from almost last) and Suzuki Sweden Kawasaki tenth. Amadeus X One were 11th, Diablo 15th and Yamaha Phase One 18th.
Hours 4 and 5 Night racing. A blur of high-intensity headlights, led taillights and multicoloured marker lights tunnelling through the chill Spanish night. 
Kawasaki France, SERT Suzuki and Folch Yamaha still hold the top three positions. QERT are 4th and Bolliger Kawasaki have moved in front of FCC TSR to take 5th. 
Yamaha Austria are up to 11th place and in the points while Phase One are 19th despite currently being one of the fastest bikes on the track, second only to Kawasaki France. 
Temperatures have dropped significantly but the rain that threatened to fall just before dusk has blown over. With an hour to go it seems that Kawasaki France have beaten SERT at their own game; establish an early lead and then keep the pressure going throughout the race. 
Hours 2 and 3 Kawasaki France still lead, with an advantage of one lap over second placed SERT Suzuki. Folch Yamaha have moved up to third place, ahead of QERT Kawasaki in fouth, FCC TSR in fifth, Moto 38 in sixth, Bolliger seventh and the Sapeurs Pompiers eighth. 
Yamaha Austria are up to 19th place, while Phase One do not seem to have made so much progress, they are currently 32nd. Diablo are locked in battle with about half a dozen teams who are on the same lap; they are currently 13th, behind Genous Kawasaki and X One Yamaha and ahead of LTG57 and Suzuki Sweden. 
Start and Hour 1 Philippe on the SERT Suzuki made a clean start and led the opening laps, but Mazuecos on the Kawasaki France bike quickly caught and passed him to take the lead. After 30 minutes he had opened up a 10 second gap on the Suzuki, with QERT third. Yamaha Austria, Bolliger Kawasaki and Yamaha Phase One were locked in a scrap for fourth place until Phase One's Van Keymeulen and Yamaha Austria's Scarnato collided at the first turn. Both bikes were repaired quickly and returned to the race, but in 39th and 40th place, some 11 laps down on the leaders. 
The FCC TSR Honda made a poor start but powered its way through the field, from 24th place to 6th by the end of the first hour, showing dominant acceleration and top speed. 
Diablo's Alex Cudlin has lifted the team from the 18th place start to 8th by the first round of stops, but the story of this race so far is the lead pulled out in the first hour by Kawasaki France, beating SERT at their own game.
Qualifying Suzuki SERT on Pole, Kawasaki France, Kawasaki QERT In Pursuit SERT (1:31.744) have taken pole position for tonight's Albacate 6 Hour round of the QMMF Endurance FIM World Championship, with the Kawasakis of the Qatar Endurance Racing Team (1:32.293) and Kawasaki Motors France (1:33.474) second and third. 
Both Kawasaki teams have been pushing the Suzuki hard all weekend, with the Kawasaki France bike taking first place in yesterday's second night practice and also this afternoon's warm-up session. 
FCC TSR Honda 4th, Yamaha Phase One 5th, Yamaha Austria 6th The Suzuka 8 Hour winning FCC TSR Honda team (1:32.686) were 4th in qualifying, just in front of Yamaha Phase One Endurance (1:33.713) and Yamaha Austria (1:33.731). 
All of these qualifying times are averages of the best time recorded by each of the three riders in each team. 
Bolliger Kawasaki 8th, Maco Moto 11th, X One 12th, Diablo 18th Bolliger Kawasaki have taken 8th place, the firt of Maco Moto's two bikes at this race was 11th (the second was a disappointing 28th), just ahead of Amadeus X One on 12th place. Diablo Kawasaki were 18th overall. Guzzi Not a Guzzi, Ducati 1098 10th Finally, Team Guzzi Motobox have qualified in 32 place - out of 41 starters - on a… Yamaha R1. With no BMW at this race, the only European machine running is the Ducati 1098 of RPM-Expert Flumotion, qualifying in a very good 10th place. Full Qualifying Results are here: |
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