2023-09-18 17:16:21
The ERC Endurance Ducati has not been able to finish the season on a good note. The German structure – the only one that has direct support from Ducati Corse in the FIM EWC – had to withdraw early in the last race of the World Endurance season, the Bol D’Or, an event in which the trio formed by Chaz Davies, Xavi Forés and David Checa He aspired to achieve a great result, aiming directly for the podium.
The weekend didn’t start badly for the ERC Endurance Ducati at the Paul Ricard circuit; After free practice, the Bavarian team He secured fifth place on the starting grid with a promising 1:53.026, a position that allowed Davies, author of the first relay, to ride with the best from the beginning, thus avoiding the ‘jam’ of the peloton in the now classic Le Mans-type start.
Luck smiled on the ERC Endurance Ducati in the first meters, and after a brief drizzle and a necessary tire change, The Welshman became the leader of the test with intermediate tires; Davies gave Xavi Forés his Panigale V4 R at the end of the first stint, and the Valencian returned to the track already wearing slicks after the rain stopped.
Unfortunately, They suffered a hard fall that left the motorcycle significantly damaged. after doing a couple of flips on the asphalt.
The Llombai man managed to return to the box with the motorcycle half dismantled, and although the team spent nearly 40 minutes trying to fix the damage, a crack in the chassis of the Panigale V4 R It made the continuation of the ERC Endurance in the race unviable, and they could not do anything other than close the box after an hour and a half of racing.
Forés himself, who came to this Bol D’Or directly from the US after having been proclaimed MotoAmerica Supersport champion there, apologized to his teammates and the entire ERC Endurance Ducati staff after the race. Through his social networks, the Valencian said “I am very sad about how this Bol D’Or has gone. Yesterday was my birthday and the gift was not at all what I expected.. I apologize to my entire ERC Endurance team and my friends David Checa and Chaz Davies. An unusual mistake for me has left all the work we did this week in pieces in the middle of the track. Bol d’Or owes me 3 already…”, finished off a Forés who is not quite lucky in this mythical test of French resistance.
With this zero, the ERC Endurance puts an end to a complicated season that started with a hopeful fourth place in the 24 Hours of Le Mans; Then came the 24 Hours of Spa in June, a race that the German team could not finish due to a technical problem with its Panigale V4 R.
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Absent from the Suzuka 8 Hours due to the very high costs of air transport, the trio formed by Davies, Forés and Checa came to this Bol D’Or wanting to recapture the sensations of the inaugural Le Mans event, but luck was not there. on his side and the team finishes the season classified in 12th position overall in the FIM EWC with 39 points.
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