Troy Corser, Ruben Xaus and Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport will be looking to sign off for the winter in successful style at Magny-Cours in France by adding to their collection of top-3 results.
A win or podium would represent the perfect end to a season in which the recently formed Bavarian team have recorded their first pole position and podium finishes.
Going into the season‰Ûªs final race weekend BMW Motorrad Motorsport rider Troy Corser is lying tenth in the riders‰Ûª standings on 165 points.
‰ÛÏI‰Ûªve always gone pretty well at Magny-Cours and have taken a few pole positions and podiums there down the years," Corser said.
"In 2005 I won my second World Championship title at the track. It‰Ûªs a very distinctive circuit and actually made up of three different sections. The middle section flows nicely, but at the start and end of the lap you‰Ûªve got some real stop-start corners. One critical part of the track is the hairpin at the end of the first long straight. Here it‰Ûªs important to have very good braking stability, or you can lose a lot of time. In fact, you can easily concede half a second through this corner. The hairpin before you head down the long downhill straight is also a key area.
"This circuit has a bit of everything, and it‰Ûªs extremely tricky to find the perfect set-up," the Australian continued. "You need a bike that works well over the whole circuit. Here it‰Ûªs not necessarily the fastest bike that will be successful, but the one with the best handling. The machine has to have good brakes and react well to changes in direction. This can also be a treacherous place with the weather you normally expect at this time of year. It‰Ûªs pretty cool now and there could well be rain. That would be less than perfect, as it makes the track conditions pretty dicey. However, I think our bike should go well with the settings we‰Ûªve been working on. I‰Ûªm looking forward to it!‰Û
