By Occurring early last month, at the same time as Dymokury Road Races in the Czech Republic and the Steve Henshaw Gold Cup at Oliver’s Mount, two hill-climb tracks Merleac (7th September) and Pontivy Airport (14th September) hosted back-to-back race weekends, first, final rounds of this year’s ‘Championnat De Bretagne Vitesse’ in Brittany, France.
Two interesting names featured amongst the race results, firstly Timothee Monot (P2 in Supersport category at Merleac).
Strongly established in Northwest 200, TT, Macau Grand Prix, Daytona 200 racing circles plus European road races including Horice, Terlicko, he last-month made his 2RAT Records meeting (straight-liners event – 1.25 mile long drag-strip) debut at Elvington Airfield in England, going onto bank aboard ZX-10R Kawasaki metal a best speed of 222.891 mph.
Guillaume Mercier (P7 – Supersport class at Pontivy) was this year a Northwest 200 newcomer but he had an unfortunate moment during opening practice, qualifying explorations whilst piloting Basomba Racing’s R6 Yamaha, ending prematurely his first NW200 campaign.
In recent months Mercier has mixed roads scene, purpose-built circuit racing thrills at Chimay (Open Trophy extravaganza) and the BeNeLux round at Carole Circuit.
It is important to support all events, both large and small and it is always great to see in all corners of the world, passionate road racing fans, who want to see true superheroes skillsets up close.
Rankings for Superbike/Supersport categories from Merleac and Pontivy, are as follows:
(Best track time located near racer’s name)
Course de Cote de Merleac:
Superbike:
1st – Jules Boyer – 47.533
2nd – Kilian Chicoine – 47.799
3rd – Gaetan Legagnoux – 55.018
Supersport:
1st – Jules Boyer – 47.596
2nd – Timothee Monot – 47.701
3rd – Youenn Guegan – 52.319
Course de Cote de Pontivy:
Superbike:
1st – Kilian Chicoine – 1.18.049
2nd – David Le Bail – 1.18.631
3rd – Nathan Perese – 1.21.178
4th – Jules Boyer – 1.21.25
5th– Jimmy Ollivier – 1.22.533
6th – Sebastien Chapelet – 1.23.436
7th – Gaetan Legagnoux – 1.27.799
8th – Benoit Humbert – 1.28.416
9th – Martin Le Gourrierec – 1.29.729
Supersport:
1st – David Le Bail – 1.13.525
2nd – Sebastien Chapelet – 1.18.103
3rd – Jules Boyer – 1.18.154
4th – Jimmy Ollivier – 1.19.431
5th – Nicolas Hochet – 1.20.096
6th – Olivier Le Foulgoc – 1.20.638
7th – Guillaume Mercier – 1.22.010
8th – Yvann Hemonic – 1.23.627
Superbike – Super Finale:
1st – Jules Boyer – 2.39.006
2nd – Kilian Chicoine – 2.50.869
3rd – Nathan Perese – 2.53.310
4th – Benoit Humbert – 2.53.888
Supersport – Super Finale:
1st – David Le Bail – 2.36.064
Words by Jan Vavra
