The Suzuki Endurance Racing Team leads the Bol d’Or ahead of Team SRC Kawasaki and BMW Motorrad France 99 The Suzuki Endurance Racing Team of Vincent Philippe, Freddy Foray and Anthony Delhalle is holding a solid leadership at the Bol d’Or since the beginning of the race. The official ZX-10R of Team SRC Kawasaki was the only one able to grab the race lead for a few laps, hours ago. At 8 pm, after 5 hours of race, the official Suzuki has already clocked 173 laps and is leading with one lap ahead of the Team SRC Kawasaki and the BMW Motorrad France 99 of Sébastien Gimbert, Damian Cudlin and Erwan Nigon, which has also been racing in the leading trio since 3 pm. Close behind them is the Monster Yamaha YART of Igor Jerman, Steve Martin and Gwen Giabbani, strongly holding their fourth place ahead of the Kawasaki Bolliger Team Switzerland of Horst Saiger, Roman Stamm and Jérôme Tangre and the Honda National Motos ridden by Emeric Jonchière, Lucas de Carolis and Etienne Masson. The Honda TT Legends of Steve Plater, John McGuinness and Keith Amor is putting some pressure over the National Motos. They are in seventh place ahead of the Yamaha Maco Racing Team of Jason Pridmore, Gregory Junod and Gregg Black. After a start from fifteenth place, the YMES Folch Endurance Yamaha with Dani Ribalta, Pedro Vallcaneras and José Luis Rita is closing the gap and is now in ninth place. In tenth place, the Suzuki AM Moto Racing Compétition of Fabrice Auger, Anthony Loiseau and Kevin Denis is leading the Superstock class ahead of the Kawasaki Maccio Racing of David Dumain, Axel Morin and Fred Moreira and the Suzuki of Team Motor Events Bodyguard AMT of Mathieu Gines, Vincent Bocquet and Emilien Humeau. The Suzuki Junior Team is struggling with the grip of their tyres since the beginning of the race. Under the Magny-Cours sunshine, the race started on a GP pace! Vincent Philippe, motivated as ever after his warm up crash, made the show ahead with a series of very fast laps on the official Suzuki ahead of Julien da Costa on the SRC Kawasaki and Sébastien Gimbert on the BMW Motorrad France 99. The Monster Yamaha YART and the Yamaha France Racing GMT 99 did their best to follow the rhythm. On the Monster YART, Gwen Giabbani suffered from a little crash at the beginning of the race. On the other side, the crash of Kenny Foray, just before completing the first racing hour, put the Yamaha Racing France GMT 94 to the back of the pack. At 8 pm, they fight in 45th position. Three bikes are already out of racing, the Suzuki No Limits after some overheating problems, the MV Agusta Raffin Motos with an exploded exhaust and the BMW Boenig Penz13 RT with a faulty engine.