After a private testing session on Wednesday afternoon, this Thursday was the first official day of the 6 Hours of Most, and it was particularly intense...
The program included a free practice session from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., a first qualification from noon to 13:20 p.m., a second free practice session from 14:20 p.m. to 15:20 p.m. then a second qualification from 16:20 p.m. to 17:40 p.m.
Some teams, such as the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team and the YART – Yamaha Official Team EWC had already come to clear the Czech circuit, and this was felt this morning, the #37 BMW ahead of the YART with Markus Reiterberger in 1'34.057 – Yamaha Official EWC Team in 1’34.381.
However, serious things began during the first qualification which saw the German driver record 1'33.191 ahead of Marvin Fritz in 1'33.622 during the qualification reserved for yellow drivers.
This BMW time was not going to be beaten during an afternoon dominated by the Yamaha #7 which also presented a particularly homogeneous crew, Marvin Fritz achieving 1'33.841, Karel Hanika 1'33.553 and Niccolò Canepa 1' 33.619!
In the end, the YART – Yamaha Official Team EWC took pole position 0,350 seconds ahead of the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team. Follows world championship leader Yoshimura SERT Motul with Gregg Black, Xavier Siméon and Sylvain Guintoli, while FCC TSR Honda France, fourth on the grid and third in the championship, is already more than a second behind with Josh Hook, Yuki Takahashi and Mike Di Meglio.
VRD IGOL Expériences, with Florian Alt, Florian Marino and Nicolas Terol still mathematically in a position to snatch the title, will start from seventh position, behind the WEBIKE SRC KAWASAKI FRANCE TRICKSTAR of Jérémy Guarnoni, Erwan Nigon and David Checa, and just in front of the Yamaha Moto Ain by Randy De Puniet, Loris Baz and Corentin Perolari.
Tomorrow will be a rest day and the race will take place on Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m., after a warm up from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
