Falcon strives for EWC high fives

Falcon Racing has no plans to miss out on top-five finishes in this year’s FIM Endurance World Championship. After landing one season-high top-five Superstock category placing in 2021, Falcon Racing Team Manager Mickaël Le Dévéhat is targeting the top five at all rounds of the 2022 EWC, which gets underway with the 24 Heures Mots at Le Mans from 14-17 April. Falcon has pooled the respective skills of French quartet David Chevallier, Théo Eissen, Loïc Millet and Tanguy Zaepfel to ride its Yamaha YZF – R1 to on-track success and Le Dévéhat’s hopes are high.

“The 2021 season was incredible for us,” he said. “We learned so much and gained a lot of experience. Our result at the Bol d’Or but, more generally, during the whole season has boosted all the team to take another stride for the 2022 season.

The main goal is to stay in the top five in SST in every single race. We finished 10th, sixth, fifth and finally sixth last year, which is great for a team like us, but we are feeling confident to make fifth our position for every race.” Le Dévéhat continued: “Of course, we would like to end 2022 with at least the same result, fourth in SST. To be honest, we are dreaming of reaching the first step of the podium for at least one race, and who knows maybe for the whole season.

But for that we have to keep pushing and working hard as we did in previous years.” While Falcon Racing’s choice of Yamaha power is unchanged, the team is working with BMD Performances on suspension preparation for 2022. “It is the only big difference in our bike preparation,” said Le Dévéhat. ‘Experience showed us that the R1 is a reliable and efficient machine, so we want to keep it as it is and stay simple.