BMW Wins At Most, SERT Take The Title
T
he FIM Endurance World
Championship (EWC) decider
was held at Most in the Czech
Republic, October 9-10, with the
BMW Motorrad World Endurance
Team (Ilya Mikhalchik, Markus
Reiterberger and Kenny Foray)
defeating the YART–Yamaha
Official EWC Team (Marvin Fritz,
Karel Hanika and Niccolo Cane-
pa) by 0.070 seconds in the clos-
est finish in EWC history.
The race distilled into a battle
between BMW and Yamaha
over the last hour, with Yamaha's
Marvin Fritz setting the fastest
race lap four times in the last half
hour. He set the final record,
a 1:33.875, on his second-last
lap but couldn't overhaul BMW's
Markus Reiterberger. The win
also marked the first time BMW
has claimed an EWC race win.
Third went to the Yoshimura
SERT Motul team of Gregg
Black, Xavier Simeon and Sylvain
Guintoli, sealing the 2021 EWC
title. SERT fended off the attack
of Webike SRC Kawasaki France
Trickstar (Jeremy Guarnoni,
Erwan Nigon and David Checa),
which ensured third overall in the
2021 series behind SERT and
second-placed BMW Motorrad
World Endurance Team.
Fifth place at Most went to the
Wojcik Racing Team (Gino Rea,
Sheridan Morais and Dan Linfoot),
just ahead of ERC Endurance-
Ducati (Etienne Masson, Lorenzo
Zanetti and Mathieu Gines). The
first Superstock machine home
was the No Limits Motor Team
(Luca Scassa, Kevin Calia and
Alexis Masbou) in seventh.
It was a race to forget for for-
mer EWC champions F.C.C. TSR
Honda (Mike di Meglio, Josh Hook,
Yuki Takahashi), who shot away
to an early lead in the hands of Di
Meglio but a crash for Takahashi at
the two-hour mark ended their race.
The crash would see the team drop
to fifth in the overall standings.
Tati Team Beringer Racing
and Moto Ain also crashed when
they were in the top 10, followed
by VRD Igol Experiences, who
retired following an engine failure
on their Yamaha.
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Markus Reiterberger just holds
Marvin Fritz to the line in the
closest finish in EWC history in
the Czech Republic.
