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Ten Kate Racing>> Monza podium for Foret

May 09 2011

Hannspree Ten Kate Honda rider Fabien Foret finished third in today’s fourth round World Supersport championship race held at Monza in Italy, the race being won by British rider Chaz Davies, as Foret’s team-mate, Florian Marino took seventh place. Starting from the front row of the grid for the 16-lap race around the 5.777km historic Monza circuit, Foret was forced wide at the first corner and lost touch with the leading group. However, the French rider battled past his team-mate among others to secure third before enduring a relatively lonely race to the flag.

Marino had the better of the early laps but became embroiled in a four-way dice for fourth place and ended up losing time to his rivals through handling issues, rather than the outright speed demanded by Monza.

The World Supersport championship now takes a month off before re-grouping with the  Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team in Italy once more, at Misano, on 1 0-12 June.

Fabien Foret – 3rd
I really lost everything in the first chicane where Tamburini went a bit mad. I got pushed off the track a little bit and that was it. I could see Chaz (Davies) was already far away and by the time I passed Broc (Parkes) and Florian (Marino) and the other guys it was just to late. I tried to push to catch Scassa but it was pretty difficult on my own without the slipstream. I wanted to be safe at the end and score 16 points because I feel I’ve already used my joker this season by not scoring in the first two races. I can’t afford to make any mistakes now and, even though I felt that second was probably my position today, I had to decide whether to risk pushing that bit harder or taking the points that I had.

Florian Marino – 7th
I am really disappointed because I would have preferred to fight with Parkes to the end of the race. The top three guys looked pretty fast but it’s frustrating because, compared to yesterday’s qualifying and the warm-up this morning, the feeling was not so good today. In the race I had some problems to go fast – I could not get the rhythm I wanted and did not feel like I could push the tyre. I had to fight the bike to turn and nearly high-sided two or three times at the beginning. In the final three laps I was exhausted. Sure, I took some points but it was still disappointing so we’ll look at the data and I look forward to doing better at Misano.

Ronald ten Kate – team manager
It’s good to see Fabien back on the podium again so soon after his second place at  Assen. Unfortunately the start of his race was messed up a bit, otherwise he might have been even higher, but he rode very well on his own and did the best he could without any slipstreaming advantage. Florian is a little disappointed and didn’t have such a good feeling with the bike as he had yesterday and during warm-up. We’ll look to find out what the problem was, but he has ridden another good race and continues to impress in his debut World Supersport season.

2011 World Supersport championship, round four - results
Monza, Italy (5.777km) - 16 laps:
1 Chaz Davies (GBR) Yamaha 29m05.363s
2 Luca Scassa (ITA) Yamaha +4.734
3 Fabien Foret (FRA) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda +7.977s
4 Broc Parkes (AUS) Kawasaki +819.246s
5 Sam Lowes (GBR) Honda +19.882s
6 R Tamburini (ITA) Yamaha +20.148s
7 Florian Marino (FRA) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda +21.090s

Championship points after four of 12 rounds:
1 Davies 70, 2 Scassa 70, 3 Parkes 60, 4 Robbin Harms , 5 David Salom 42, 6 Foret 36, 9 Marino 26

Next round: Misano, Italy – 10-12 June
 
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