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18 Sep 2005, 23:24
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Bol d'Or & World Endurance
I'm not into bike racing, however I like endurance racing so so I am curious to know how many (if any) of you still follow the Endurance World Championship, and the Bol d'Or 24hr race (which I was surprised to find out was on this weekend!) - are they still in any way important at all, or is it the same here as in car racing where noone cares about these races anymore?
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19 Sep 2005, 07:26
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i usually do . didn't followed it that closely this year ..
Endurance Moto Racing has a constant public it's not huge
Suzuki is treating it with most importance . as they put in some of their ads the fact that they won the Constructors Championship . and is the only factory team
and then there is Suzuka 8 hours . for Jappanese is very important . we used to have Edwards, Rossi and many big names in that race . this year we had Vermuelen alongside the regulars Endurance drivers and local drivers like Ukawa,Itoh
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19 Sep 2005, 09:28
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Suzuki cannot field their star(s) from AMA, because AFAIK AMA was running at the weekend when Suzuka 8h ran. That's a shame. I really don't care about Endurance, but I love Suzuka 8h races. I watched this years one, it is great show... Factory, semi-factory machines, teams and riders. Suzuki and Honda running their stars. That's great, I love this race.
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28 Sep 2005, 15:01
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i used to be a regular at the bol d'or before it moved, paul ricard was a much nicer circuit than magny cours.
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28 Sep 2005, 21:33
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Very true but unfortunately Bernie bought the whole park and won't let the other kids play in it anymore.
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29 Sep 2005, 07:30
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would you ?? 
yeah .. Paul Ricard was much more interesting .. but at least it still takes place
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29 Sep 2005, 10:20
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Nogaro would probably be the place to hold it if you ask me.
And I went back and checked something, the World Endurance calender in 1992 had two 24 races in France, one at Le Mans (Bugatti) won by Foggy/Rymer/Simul and one at Paul Ricard won by Foggy/Rymer/Hislop (Yay!).
So was the Paul Ricard race was Bol d'Or or the Le Mans...
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29 Sep 2005, 10:39
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Paul Ricard i think .. 93 was at Paul Ricard so i think its safe to say it was in 92 too
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29 Sep 2005, 21:46
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Paul Ricard was Bol d'Or, Le Mans was Le Mans.
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