Sepang 8 Hours - Private Testing Results
Track action at the inaugural 2019 Sepang 8 Hours Endurance World Championship event began with a private testing session from 9am-4pm on Wednesdayꦡ.
A two🍷-hou🅘r Free Practice will now be held before the Wednesday action concludes with a night Free Practice, from 7:30pm-9pm.
Qualifying takes place on Thursday, with the race - the seco♔nd round 💛of the 2019/2020 FIM Endurance World Championship - starting at 1pm on Saturday.
Track action at the inaugural 2019 Sepang 8 Hours Endurance World Championship event began with🧸 a private testing session from💦 9am-4pm on Wednesday.
A two-hour Free Practice will now be held before the Wednesday action concludes with a night Free Practice, from 7:30pm-9💃pm.
Qualifying takes place on Thursday, with th🦂e race - the second round of the ♋2019/2020 FIM Endurance World Championship - starting at 1pm on Saturday.
MotoGP's Franco Morbidelli is competing for the home Sep♚ang team, alongside fellow grand prix rider Hafizh Syahrin and WorldSBK star Michael van der Mark.
The Sepang team was a clos꧑e second fastest to TSR Honda during the priv👍ate testing...
| Sepang 8 Hours - Private Testing | ||
| Pos | Riders (Team) | Time/Gap |
| 1 | Hook/Foray/Di Meglio (F.C.C. TSR Honda France) | 2m 5.796s |
| 2 | Morbidelli/Syahrin/Van Der Mark (Yamaha Sepang Racing) | +0.010s |
| 3 | Mykhalchyk/Reiterberger/Foray (BMW MOTORRAD WORLD ENDURANCE TEAM) | +0.265s |
| 4 | Parkes/Fritz/Canepa (YART - YAMAHA) | +0.544s |
| 5 | Zaidi/Izdihar/Chantra (Honda Asia-Dream Racing with SHOWA) | +0.903s |
| 6 | Alt/Marino/Simeon (VRD IGOL PIERRET EXPERIENCES) | +1.594s |
| 7 | Guarnoni/Nigon/Checa (WEBIKE SRC KAWASAKI FRANCE) | +1.676s |
| 8 | Ježek/De Puniet/Rossi (Team ERC Endurance) | +2.315s |
| 9 | Szkopek/Ellison/Hanika (MACO RACING Team) | +2.448s |
| 10 | Kamaruzaman/Norrodin/Da Costa (BMW Sepang Racing) | +2.486s |
| 11 | Rolfo/Mulhauser/Clere (MOTO AIN) | +2.548s |
| 12 | Stamm/Suchet/Walraven (Bolliger Team Switzerland) | +2.554s |
| 13 | Rea/Bergman/Maurin (Wójcik Racing Team) | +2.810s |
| 14 | Thöni/Dangl/Walchhütter (Bertl K. Racing Team) | +2.982s |
| 15 | Techer/Denis/Enjolras (TATI TEAM BEAUJOLAIS RACING) | +3.017s |
| 16 | Boulom/Gamarino/Manfredi (Team 33 Coyote Louit Moto) | +3.052s |
| 17 | Westmoreland/Linfoot/Nigon (MOTORS EVENTS) | +3.203s |
| 18 | Philippe/Masson/Black (Suzuki Endurance Racing Team) | +3.244s |
| 19 | Hoshino/Atsumi/Ishizuka (TONE RT SYNCEDGE 4413 BMW) | +3.420s |
| 20 | Leblanc/Uramoto/Tsuda (SUZUKI JEG - KAGAYAMA) | +3.593s |
| 21 | Yanagawa/Ito/Izutsu (KRP SANYOKOUGYOU & will raise RS-ITOH) | +3.635s |
| 22 | Scassa/Kemmer/Vitali (No Limits Motor Team) | +3.725s |
| 23 | Konno/Seller/Morais (Team R2CL) | +3.891s |
| 24 | Hedelin/Masbou/Perret (TECMAS BMW GMC) | +3.982s |
| 25 | Lussiana/Berchet/Plancassagne (3ART- MOTO TEAM 95) | +4.214s |
| 26 | Baggi/Boscoscuro/Rosso (Team Aviobike) | +4.240s |
| 27 | Kerschbaumer/Glöckner/Bijsterbosch (GERT56 by GS YUASA) | +4.401s |
| 28 | Loiseau/Hardt/Pilot (BMRT 3D MAXXESS NEVERS) | +4.512s |
| 29 | Antiga/Tessels/Bonnot (Rac 41) | +4.667s |
| 30 | Fastré/Buchner/Godfrey (MOTOTECH EWC TEAM) | +4.759s |
| 31 | Vincon/Bühn/Lewandowski (Team LRP Poland) | +4.769s |
| 32 | Sekiguchi/Sakai/Nagoe (TEAM PLUSONE) | +5.231s |
| 33 | Charpin/Diguet/Hugot (OG MOTORSPORT BY SARAZIN) | +5.366s |
| 34 | Pellizotti/Granzottto/De La Rosa (PITLANE ENDURANCE) | +5.565s |
| 35 | Napoli/Napoli/Pešek (ENERGIE ENDURANCE 91) | +5.596s |
| 36 | Stoll/Sarrabayrouse/Buisson (AM Moto Racing Competition) | +5.668s |
| 37 | Kodama/Tokudome/ (Team Kodama) | +5.863s |
| 38 | Sano/Okamura/Higashimura (TEAM HANSHIN RIDING SCHOOL) | +6.077s |
| 39 | Railton/Blackshaw/Edwards (British Endurance Racing Team) | +6.491s |
| 40 | Nekvasil/Bos/Friedrich (HRT 100 - Hertrampf Racing Endurance) | +6.580s |
| 41 | Shinjo/Nakamura/Matsumoto (Yamashina Kawasaki KEN Racing & Auto Race UBE) | +6.588s |
| 42 | Cronier/Cornut/Gucciardi (JMA MOTOS ACTION BIKE) | +6.854s |
| 43 | Dehaye/Ströhlein/Ortiz (Motobox Kremer Racing #65) | +6.878s |
| 44 | Ooishi/Hirano/Krishnan (TransMapRacing with ACE CAFE) | +6.917s |
| 45 | Juda/Novosel/Kovács (Extéria KSPCS Racing Team by EKO) | +7.359s |
| 46 | Sugai/Byrne/Burke (TEAM SUGAI RACING JAPAN) | +7.378s |
| 47 | Szkopek/Pasek/Biesiekirski (Wójcik Racing Team 2) | +7.605s |
| 48 | Creusot/Wang Chang/Parret (TEAM 202) | +7.951s |
| 49 | Fukuyama/Yoshida/Okuda (T.MOTOKIDS icu Takada I.W NAC SANYO) | +8.685s |
For comparison…
Official Sepang WorldSBK records:
Best lap:
Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki 2m 2.246s (2016)
Fastest race lap:
Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki 2m 3.637s (2016)
Official Sepang MotoGP records:
Best lap:
Fabio Quartararo FRA Yamaha 1m 58.303s (2019)
Fastest race lap:
Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 1m 59.661s (2019)
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