Davies: EWC victory loss one of the toughest moments of my career

Chaz Davies has revealed the despair he experienced following ERC Endurance-Ducati’s late Bol d’Or heartbreak. The German team was heading for its maiden FIM Endurance World Championship victory in the season finale at Circuit Paul Ricard earlier this month when a mechanical problem struck and dropped the #6 machine from first to an eventual fifth place. Ad For David Checa and Xavi Forés, the manner of the late-race setback was hard to take after they’d turned superhuman to share riding duties for a large part of the race following Davies’ withdrawal due to a back injury.

FIM EWCFrom P33 to P3: how Webike SRC Kawasaki France completed the Bol d’Or EWC podiumYESTERDAY AT 04:02 “Endurance racing is as cruel as it gets,” British rider Davies wrote on Facebook afterwards. “I’ve been at this racing game a little while and today was one of the toughest days I’ve experienced. We led the Bol d’Or for the majority of the race after putting in some huge stints.

I got sidelined after tweaking my back so my teammates kept hammering it towards home, only to be denied by a technical problem 90 minutes before the end. Gutted doesn’t even come close to covering it. The ERC team deserve much more and are capable of it.