The last round of the season approaches - now traditionally held in France at the Magny-Cours circuit. WSBK has already found its champion, with Bayliss celebrating his second World Title at Imola, adding to his 2001 crown. The Supersport class has still to find its champion, with Kevin Curtain trying to give Australia its second overall trophy this season, while Charpentier trying to defend his number one plate on home tarmac.
Magny-Cours, almost every season, presents a difficult situation as quite cold temperatures and frequent mist and fog around the circuit make the track very slippery.
The tarmac is quite old, and the F1 activity makes it very polished. It has also created some small undulations that present a difficult task to the bike tyres.
In order to offer the best performance to all, Pirelli has brought four different front solutions for the Superbikes: A, B, D are standard tyres available on the market under the name of Pirelli DIABLO SUPERBIKE SC0, SC1, SC2, while the “C” is made with a different compound, and has already been used at some other tracks this year.
At the rear there are three solutions in the standard fitment (190/65) and a fourth (which we can refer to as the C1 for our purposes) with the same compound as the C, but in a 200mm-wide fitment.
For the 16 riders who will participate in Superpole, Pirelli has also brought, as always, a qualifier, which will be given out only after the 2nd qualifying practice, and only to the top 16. As this racetrack offers relatively poor grip, Pirelli technicians needed to bring a range of solutions - soft, but still able to last the whole race distance. The qualifier is a single lap tyre, so it can be really soft for this race, as the mechanical wear of the tyre is not so great. The qualifying tyre used here is the same one the riders used at Brands Hatch.
Supersport riders will choose between two different front solutions and three different rears, in the standard fitments of 120/70 for the front and 180/55 for the rear, each running on 17” rims.
After its debut in Misano the new DIABLO SUPERCORSA has been the preference of the riders when compared to the DRAGON SUPERCORSA PRO, which is itself a tyre still giving Pirelli many National Titles and is still brought to the World Championship, on occasion. Here, for instance, it is the soft solution for the rear.
The Pirelli DRAGON SUPERCORSA PRO, in the SC2 compound, is well known to the market as a racetrack tyre homologated for the road, and in the Superbike paddock it is always present – easy to recognize because its tread pattern is so familiar – because it is the official tyre for the Superstock 1000 FIM CUP.
Last but not least, the Superstock 600 European Championship is racing with the Pirelli DIABLO CORSA III – three zones compound, a road tyre able to offer great performance for the young riders who have delivered very exciting races in every round.
Last year: SBK Race 1 - 23 laps:1, Vermeulen - Honda CBR 1000 RR - Winston Ten Kate Honda39’03.405
2 ,Kagayama - Suzuki GSX1000RK5 - Suzuki Alstare+8.200
3, Toseland - Ducati 999F05 - Ducati Xerox+13.336
SBK Race 2:1, Lanzi - Ducati 999F05 - Ducati SC Caracchi39’01.858
2, Kagayama - Suzuki GSXR1000K5 - Suzuki Alstare+6.662
3, Haga - Yamaha YZF R1 - Yamaha Motor Italia+10.722
WSS - 23 laps:1, Parkes - Yamaha YZF R6 - Yamaha Germany40’12.350
2, Curtain - Yamaha YZF R6 - Yamaha Germany+0.750
3, Fabrizio - Honda CBR600 RR - Italia Megabike+1.215
Superstock 1000 FIM Cup - 14 laps:1, Van Keymeulen - Yamaha YZF R1 - Yamaha Germany24’36.343
2, Sofuoglu - Yamaha YZF R1 - Yamaha Germany+0.453
3, Nebel - Yamaha YZF R1 - Yamaha Germany+0.877
Superstock European Championship 600 - 11 laps:1, Tiberio - Honda CBR 600 RR - Junior Team Megabike19’54.688
2, Canepa - Kawasaki ZX6RR - Kawasaki Bertocchi+2.834
3, Berger - Honda CBR 600 RR - MBE+3.582
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