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The FIM Endurance World Championship has received another boost ahead of the 2023 season getting underway at the 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans next month. On the back of confirming 38 permanent teams for the upcoming title chase – a 22 per cent increase compared to last season – EWC promoter Discovery Sports Events is delighted to welcome Gilles Stafler to its expert organising team as Sporting and Technical Co-ordinator.
Several FIM Endurance World Championship riders were in action this weekend with Mike Di Meglio the most successful thanks to a victory double as the Championnat de France Superbike got underway at Le Mans. Back in the series for the first time in 20 years, Di Meglio – who will attempt to defend the EWC Teams’ title for F.C.C. TSR Honda France this season – headed Formula EWC category rivals Corentin Perolari and team-mate Alan Techer in Race 1 before edging out Techer in Race 2 with Perolari taking third.
In the final look back to a key 2022 FIM Endurance World Championship moment before the focus switches firmly to the upcoming 2023 season, here’s a reminder of the day when Steven Odendaal helped to make his team boss Yannick Lucot’s dream come true. Along with Florian Alt and Erwan Nigon, Odendaal helped French privateer team Viltaïs Racing – then running under the Viltaïs Racing Igol and using a Yamaha YZF-R1 – to a dramatic victory in the 100th-anniversary Bol d’Or, the deciding round of last year’s EWC.
Markus Reiterberger’s busy 2023 fires into life in Thailand this weekend when the FIM Endurance World Championship race winner goes for glory in the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship. Reiterberger, 29, is contesting the six-event ARRC with the ONEXOX BMW TKKR Team alongside his EWC campaign with BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team. Ad The Chang International Circuit in Buriram is up first on Reiterberger’s ARRC schedule from today (24 March) until Sunday with events also taking place in China, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia.
Lorenzo Gabellini has chosen the FIM Endurance World Championship for 2023 because of the gruelling challenge he will face competing twice around the clock. The 23-year-old former World Superbike racer will line-up for the No Limits Motor Team from Italy, which has switched from Suzuki to Honda power for the upcoming season.
Teams contesting the FIM Endurance World Championship are being encouraged to showcase their commitment to sustainability through the creation of a brand-new award. The EWC Cares Trophy, created by championship promoter Discovery Sports Events, will recognise the sustainable efforts of registered teams in all activities directly associated with their EWC participation.
National Motos Honda is preparing to embark on its 52nd season of competition with the same trio of riders that formed its FIM Endurance World Championship line-up in 2022. The French squad, a Honda motorbike dealership based in the La Défense business district of Paris, has re-signed Guillaume Raymond from France and the Swiss Suchet brothers, Sébastien and Valentin, to pilot its Dunlop-equipped Honda CBR 1000 RR-R.
BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team claimed its first FIM Endurance World Championship pole position to line up for the 100th-anniversary Bol d’Or 24-hour race at the front of the pack. With the results based on the average time of a team’s fastest two riders from Thursday and Friday qualifying (15/16 September), the session-topping laps from Markus Rieterberger and Illya Mykhalchyk on their Dunlop-equipped BMW M1000RR proved decisive in southern France.