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Hannspree Ten Kate Honda>> Foret on Assen podium as Marino suffers

April 18 2011

Ten Kate Racing - Nieuwsbrief

Fabien Foret finished second in today’s third round and crash-strewn World Supersport championship race at Assen in the Netherlands. The Frenchman finished seven seconds behind race winner, Chaz Davies, after tyre problems forced him to ease off in the closing laps

The race was red flagged twice, initially after Honda rider Sam Lowes crashed out of contention on lap four. The restart was barely a lap old before two other riders crashed at the final chicane, bringing out another red flag.

In the second re-start, Foret’s Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team-mate, Florian Marino, was taken out of a podium position by Italian rider, Luca Scassa, who careered into the rear of Marino’s Honda CBR600RR on lap seven of the revised 16-lap encounter around the 4.542km Assen circuit.

Foret had started the race from the outside of the front row and fell back to sixth place in the early stages before fighting his way through and then be nefiting from the exit of Marino and Scassa.

However, tyre problems similar to those which forced his exit from the opening round in Australia, meant the French rider was unable to push and, with a big gap behind him, he rolled off the throttle to ensure his first points of the season.

Fabien Foret – 2nd
It was a tough day but I’m happy with 20 points, but we had some pretty bad tyre issues with about four or five laps to go. I had to try to save the tyre and finish the race so I was lucky that there was a good gap to Broc Parkes in third. I had to ride really slowly just to finish the race but at the end of the day it turned into quite a good weekend. Between the tyre issue and the fact that I am still not quite 100%, it’s good to get some points and I hope for Monza to be in really good shape to fight for a win.

Florian Marino – DNF
Of course I'm really disappointed. After all the work that we did as a team over this weekend, it’s a very tough way to finish a race. I know these things can happen in a race sometimes, but I’m not happy that it happened to me today. Everything was OK in the race and I was just waiting to see how Gino Rea was going in front of me. But I have shown that I can fight for podium positions and I’m looking forward to Monza to do that again.

Ronald ten Kate – team manager
We had quite a difficult weekend here until Sunday morning. On Saturday night we found a breakthrough with setup which needed a lot of extra hours working from everyone involved with the team. So a big thanks must go to them for today’s results. Florian was riding at his best ever for us and was very unfortunate to be taken out. But things like that happen when there’s an intense battle up front and, for sure, being as young as he is, ther e will be more days for him. Fabien also had troubles this weekend. Injuries have not been holding him back so much and the Sunday morning set-up really allowed him to propel himself forward in the race. However, he encountered a similar tyre problem to Phillip Island, and he had to close down the throttle towards the end of the race. We need to work on his starts, which are not so good, but apart from that I must give him big compliments for staying calm all weekend. When the bike was good, he was really fast so we’re really looking forward to Monza and carrying this momentum forward. We’re not so far behind in the championship so we’ll take it race-by-race and get the maximum we can from each weekend.

2011 World Supersport championship, round three – Assen, Netherlands
Results (16 laps):
1 Chaz Davies (GBR) Yamaha 26m37.029s
2 Fabien Foret (FRA) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda +7.236s
3 Broc Parkes (AUS) Kawasaki +8.084s
4 Robbin Harms (DEN) Honda +8.191s
DNF Florian Marino (FRA) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda

Championship points after three of 12 rounds:
1 Luca Scassa (ITA) Yamaha 50, 2 Parkes 47, 3 Davies 45, 4 Harms 37, 5 Salom 34, 6 Foret 20, 9 Marino 17
Next round: Monza, Italy – 6-8 May.

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