Bol d’Or 2012 : Positive test for French Endurance Team Kawasaki SRC After two days of testing in Magny-Cours, the French Kawasaki SRC Endurance team faces the first race of the World Endurance Championship 2012 season with confidence. With the same line up as last year, Julien da Costa, Grégory Leblanc and Olivier Four, the French team has achieved a consistent testing programme on tires strategy, electronic mapping and fuel consumption in their preparations for the next Bol d’Or 24H race. Team manager Gilles Stafler is really pleased about this private test session: “I’m really satisfied about the job done by the riders and all the technical staff. We had a lot of new tires to test and the new Pirelli makes a huge difference compared to those we were using last year. Julien and Gregory were two of the fastest riders on the track during day one and day two and it seems that the new Pirelli front tire suits our Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R very well. Olivier and Émeric, our spare rider for the Bol d’Or race, worked on limiting fuel consumption with a new tank and they have given a lot of very useful information to the team. My main problem now concerns the weather conditions. We were close to summer conditions during these two days in Magny-Cours and I hope that it will not be too much different in two weeks.” The Bol d’Or 24H race will take place on 14th and 15th of April but before this “Rendez-vous” Kawasaki SRC team will be present for the first round of the French Superbike championship, FSBK, next week-end at Le Mans circuit.