After a wonderful edition of 24 Heures Motos Le Mans, FIM Endurance World Championship will be back on the track on Saturday 12th May. On that day Slovakiaring will host a 8-hour race, third round of 2017/2018 FIM EWC Champioship, and the provisional entry list counts 34 teams and some interesting surprises. The winners of Le Mans, F.C.C. TSR Honda, will try to defend the championship lead with Freddy Foray, Alan Techer and Josh Hook and, apparently, the new Honda Fireblade SP2, tested some days ago at Alcarras.
After the mistake made at Le Mans, the reigning World Champions of GMT94 Yamaha will try to recover at SlovakiaRing (where they won last year), as usual with Niccolò Canepa, David Checa and Mike Di Meglio. Other teams to keep an eye on are Suzuki Endurance Racing Team, Honda Endurance Racing, YART Yamaha and SRC Kawasaki. The French Kawasaki team has decided to extend its participation in 2017/2018 FIM EWC after contesting 24 Heures Motos.
FIM Endurance World Championship 2017/2018
The provisional entry list of 8 Hours of SlovakiaRing
2- Suzuki Endurance Racing Team – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Vincent Philippe/Etienne Masson/Gregg Black (EWC)
3- AM Moto Racing Competition – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Romain Maitre/Mathieu Charpin/Stephane Frossard (SST)
4- Tati Team Beaujolas Racing – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Julien Pilot/Kevin Denis/Julien Enjolras (SST)
5- F.C.C. TSR Honda France – Honda CBR 1000RR – Freddy Foray/Alan Techer/Josh Hook (EWC)
6- Maco Racing Team 2 – Yamaha YZF R1 – Tomas Svitok/David Ourednicek/Radoslav Dulik (EWC)
7- YART Yamaha – Yamaha YZF R1 – Broc Parkes/Marvin Fritz/Takuya Fujita (EWC)
8- Team Bolliger Switzerland – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Roman Stamm/Robin Mulhauser/Sebastien Suchet (EWC)
11- Team SRC Kawasaki – Kawasaki ZX-10RR – Mathieu Gines/Randy De Puniet/Jeremy Guarnoni (EWC)
14- Maco Racing Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – Gregory Junod/Anthony Dos Santos (EWC)
16- Team GP Moto – Kawasaki ZX-10R – TBA (EWC)
21- Mercury Racing – BMW S1000RR – Karel Hanika/Jakub Smrz/Matej Smrz (EWC)
34- JMA Motos Action Bike – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Cyril Brivet/Dylan Mille/Kevin Rousseau (SST)
41- RAC41 Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – Axel Aynie/Alexandre Ayer/Billy Cornut (SST)
44- No Limits Motor Team – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Michael Mazzina/Christian Gamarino/Luca Scassa (SST)
48- NRT48 – BMW S1000RR – Kenny Foray/Stefan Kerschbaumer/Lucy Glockner (EWC)
50- Team April Moto Motors Events – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Matthieu Lagrive/Baptiste Guittet/Gregory Fastre (EWC)
56- GERT 56 – BMW S1000RR – Horst Saiger/Julien Puffe/Rico Lowe (SST)
61- MotoTech EWC Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – Marty De Bruyne/Bram Lambrechts/Arnaud De Kimpe (EWC)
65- Motobox Kremer Racing – Yamaha YZF R1 – Geoffroy Dehaye/Jan Viehmann/Christopher Kemmer (EWC)
68- Atomoic Motorsport – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Clement Stoll/Guillaume Antiga/Guillaume Pot (SST)
71- Motomaxx Racing Tam – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Vladimir Ruza/Juraj Knezovic/Peter Duchyna (SST)
72- Junior Team LMS Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Hugo Clere/Alex Sarrabayrouse/Louis Rossi (SST)
77- Wojcik Racing Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – TBA (EWC)
90- Team LRP Poland – BMW S1000RR – Jaroslav Cerny/Bartolomiej Lewandowski/Arnaud Friedrich (EWC)
91- Energie Endurance 91 – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Noel Roussange/Kevin Lavainne/Antoine Thouzet (SST)
93- Exteria EKO Racing Team – BMW S1000RR – Ladislav Chmelik/Martin Choy/Miroslav Popov (SST)
94- GMT94 Yamaha – Yamaha YZF R1 – Mike Di Meglio/Niccolò Canepa/David Checa (EWC)
96- Moto Ain – Yamaha YZF R1 – Roberto Rolfo/Alexis Masbou/Christoffer Bergman (SST)
97- Plusrace Garac – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Fabien Moreau/Kevin Jacaby/Lienel Cazals (SST)
99- WSB Endurance – Kawasaki ZX-10R – Danny Maertz/Thomas Hainthaler/Johannes Hoffmann (EWC)
100- HRT100 Hetrampf Racing – Ducati Panigale R – TBA (EWC)
101- AvioBike – Yamaha YZF R1 – Christian Napoli/Federico Napoli/Giovanni Baggi (SST)
111- Honda Endurance Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – Sebastien Gimbert/Gregory Leblanc/Erwan Nigon (EWC)
333- Yamaha Viltais Experience – Yamaha YZF R1 – Axel Maurin/Florian Alt/Vincent Lonbois (SST)