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novembre 06, 2020 - Suzuki Racing
Suzuki GSX-R125 Wins UK Freetech Endurance Championship
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Team #suzuki Press Office – November 5.
Suzuki’s #gsxr125 has won the 2020 UK Freetech Endurance Championship, with victory in the final round of the season; a six-hour race at Mallory Park at the weekend.
Piloted by former British Superbike and Superstock racer #alastairfagan, former Superstock 1000 rider #brucewilson, and current Superstock 1000 racer #timneave – who won at the Silverstone Bennetts British Superbike Championship on his Buildbase #suzukigsxr1000 earlier this year – Team #suzuki GB clinched both the series’ Streetstock and overall championships in a thrilling finale. After six hours of #racing just 38 seconds was the margin of victory.
The six-round Freetech series is an entry-level, affordable race series in the UK with various classes each allowing different amounts of modification. What started as a media project and experiment by #suzuki GB with UK motorcycle publication 44 Teeth/ Fast Bikes to prove #people can go #racing with a standard machine at low cost, turned from a one round test into six rounds and a championship title at the end. Although the series allows for some uprated parts, the #gsxr125 started the series in standard road trim and ended the series as one of the least-modified machines on the start grid, proving the reliability and performance of the production machine.
The #suzuki GB-supported squad went into the weekend 19 points adrift of title rivals – a Honda CBR125-mounted outfit headed up by former British championship racer #hudsonkennaugh – and drafted in Neave for the longer sixhour race, knowing only a win would do. Competing against British and world championship-level riders including #tomboothamos, #chrissyrouse, #stefanhill and #stormstacey, #suzuki led the early stages, before swapping between first and fourth place as pit stops came into play, but always ahead of their fellow championship challengers.
Holding second overall (though first in class) with an hour-and-a-half to go, the championship was all but assured, as a mechanical issue forced Kennaugh’s retirement. Still #racing on, however, Team #suzuki GB overhauled race leaders FAB-Racing, to take the outright victory.
The result gave the #gsxr125 both the Streetstock championship win, as well as the overall championship title. The win comes after Fagan and Wilson finished seventh overall (and fifth in the Streetstock class) at the seasonopening four-hour at Teeside Autodrome aboard a completely standard machine, including headlights, indicators, registration plate and exhaust. The team returned for the second round of the series at the same venue equipped with a racier steed. Road bits removed, the bike was fitted with race bodywork, a full Yoshimura exhaust, and a larger rear sprocket, before being raced by Fagan and road racer #mikebooth to second place.
Ian Bland , #suzuki GB’s head of motorcycle marketing said: “Fresh off the back of SERT winning this year’s #enduranceworldchampionship with the GSX-R1000, the #gsxr125 proves it shares the same race-winning heritage by winning the Freetech 125 Endurance title. There were some very talented riders in the field at Mallory Park, including British and world championship racers and a number of British Talent Cup riders, but the little #gsxr proved its combination of performance and reliability was an unbeatable package. Thank you to Alastair, Bruce, Mike, and Tim for making this championship possible.”
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