SUZUKI 1-2 AT LE MANS WORLD ENDURANCE
 Suzuki
Endurance Racing Team's number two squad led a SERT GSX-R1000
one-two at the opening round of the World Endurance Championship
at Le Mans in France today.
Riders William Costes, Guillaume Dietrich and Barry Veneman
took the lead from World Champions Vincent Philippe, Matthieu
Lagrive and Julien Da Costa when the number one machine crashed
during the night session of the 24-hour race, to win by 11
laps
SERT 2 led for the first hour from Yamaha GMT94 and SERT
1. Yamaha took over temporarily at the second hour and then
SERT 1 made a charge to the front - a lead they kept for almost
half the race until a crash in the dark, thought to be due
to a rabbit running onto the track.
From 16 laps down, the defending champions gradually moved
back through the field, climbing into second place behind
SERT 2 with five hours to go - a position they held until
the flag.
Provisional results: 1 SERT 2 (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 770 laps,
2 SERT 1 (Suzuki GSX-R1000) 759, 3 Acropolis Moto Expert (Yamaha)
756, 4 Infini Team/ Yohann Moto sp (Suzuki) 755, 5 Junior
Team Suzuki - LMS (Suzuki) 753.
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