A few hours before leaving for Austria to assemble its KTMs, the CIP team received a visit from John Mc Phee in its premises located in the Alès mechanical center.
The British driver had ridden the day before in a Supermotard with Jules cluzel, Michael Laverty, Thomas Chareyre et Makar Yurchenko, his future teammate, on the Perpignan circuit.
In Alès, the Scot, very impatient to start his 2018 season, was able to collaborate with his chief mechanic, his telemetrist and Alain Bronec, the French team manager, to organize the future work and the first sessions which will take place in Valencia on February 6, 7 and 8.