Preview Grand Prix de France | «Save The Date»: Bonjour Le Mans – ALLEZ Noah Dettwiler

FIM Moto3™ World Championship – Grand Prix de France
Bugatti Circuit (Le Mans, France) | Wednesday, May 8^th 2024

This weekend’s Grand Prix de France is especially marked in the calendar of the 19-year-old Swiss Moto3™ World Championship rookie.

Noah Dettwiler can definitely call the championship’s visit to France as his home Grand Prix due to its proximity to Switzerland. However, he will actually be racing this weekend in front of his CIP Green Power Team home crowd. The team is based in the south of France.

The venue in Le Mans, around 200 km southwest of Paris, is a historic place. The city on the Sarthe gained worldwide fame through the «24-hour» car race. In the mid-sixties, a Grand Prix circuit was added to the 13 km long circuit for what is probably the toughest car race, and the Grand Prix de France was regularly held here until 1995. After a four-year interruption, the motorcycle world championship returned to Le Mans back in 2000. For some years now, the event has been a real crowd puller. Last year, a new record was set with almost 300,000 visitors. 

Swiss television will be showing the race live on SRF2 on Sunday. The broadcast starts at 10:50 am. For viewers from Switzerland and Austria, all of the weekend’s sessions can be seen on the video and streaming platform “ServusTV On” with English commentary. In Germany, the broadcasts on Saturday and Sunday can be seen in a free live stream on ServusTV, while DF1 also broadcasts the Moto3 qualifying and the race on Sunday live. Alternatively, there is also the live stream on the official MotoGP website, where all sessions of all classes will be streamed, as at every Grand Prix. However, a paid video pass is required for this. Another option for Germany is a paid subscription to Sky Sport.

 

#55 Noah DETTWILER (CIP Green Power, KTM RC250GP):

«Le Mans is a new track for me and I’m really looking forward to it. It’s a stop-and-go track. We will continue the work from Jerez with the team on Friday and hopefully make further progress. Above all, we need to be more aggressive at the start of the race.»

 

Noah DETTWILER´s profile:
Age: 19 (born on April 26^th, 2005)
Occupation: Racer
Place of birth: Basel (Switzerland)
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 61 kg
Bike: KTM RC250GP
Racing number: #55

 

Track facts Le Mans:
Venue for Grand Prix de France: since 2000
Length: 4,185 Meter
Width: 13 meters
Longest straight: 674 meters
Right corners: 9
Left corners: 5
Alltime record Moto3™: 1´41.399 (2020)
Best Moto3™ Pole Position: 1´41.399 (2020)
Moto3™ Lap record: 1´41.690 (2020)

 

#FrenchGP – Moto3™ Time Schedule of the weekend (CEST):
Friday, 10^th May: 09:00 – 09:35 Free Practice
Friday, 10^th May: 13:15 – 13:50 Practice 1
Saturday, 11^th May: 08:40 – 09:10 Practice 2
Saturday, 11^th May: 12:50 – 13:05 Qualifying 1
Saturday, 11^th May: 13:15 – 13:30 Qualifying 2
Sunday, 12^th May: 11:00 Rennen (20 Laps – 83,700 km)

Moto3™ World Standing:
1 Daniel HOLGADO / SPA / GASGAS / 74
2 David ALONSO / COL / CFMOTO / 68
3 Collin VEIJER / NED / Husqvarna / 46
4 Ivan ORTOLA / SPA / KTM / 39
5 Joel KELSO /AUS / KTM / 39
6 David MUNOZ / SPA / KTM / 38
7 Angel PIQUERAS / SPA / Honda / 26
8 Ryusei YAMANAKA / JPN / KTM / 26
9 Stefano NEPA / ITA / KTM / 26
10 Jacob ROULSTONE / AUS / GASGAS / 23
11 Tatsuki SUZUKI / JPN / Husqvarna / 22
12 Adrian FERNANDEZ / SPA / Honda / 21
13 Jose Antonio RUEDA / SPA / KTM / 20
14 Joel ESTEBAN / SPA / CFMOTO / 20
15 Taiyo FURUSATO / JPN / Honda / 16
…
23 #55 Noah DETTWILER / SWI / KTM / 2

 

MotoGP™ Calender 2024:
10^th March – Grand Prix of Qatar, Lusail International Circuit (Lusail)
24^th March – Grande Prémio de Portugal, Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (Portimao)
14^th April – Grand Prix of the Americas, Circuit of The Americas (Austin)
28^th April – Gran Premio de Espana, Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto (Jerez de la Frontera)
12^th May – Grand Prix de France, Bugatti Circuit (Le Mans)
26^th May – Gran Premi de Catalunya, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Montmeló)
2^nd June – Gran Premio d’Italia, Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello (Scarperia)
30^th June – TT Assen, TT Circuit (Assen)
7^th July – Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland, Sachsenring (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)
4^th August – British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit (Silverstone)
18^th August – Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich, Red Bull Ring (Spielberg)
1^st September – Gran Premio de Aragón, MotorLand Aragón (Alcaniz)
8^th September – Gran Premio di San Marino e della di Riviera di Rimini, Misano World Circuit (Misano Adriatico)
22^nd September – Grand Prix of India, Buddh International Circuit (Greater Noida)
29^th September – Grand Prix of Indonesia, Mandalika International Street Circuit (Lombok)
6^th October – Grand Prix of Japan, Mobility Resort Motegi (Motegi)
20^th October – Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, Phillip Ilsand GP Circuit (Cowes)
27^th October – Thailand Grand Prix, Chang International Circuit (Buriram)
3^rd November – Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix, Sepang International Circuit (Sepang)
17^th November – Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana, Circuit Ricardo Tormo (Valencia)
Date new to confirm – Grand Prix of Kazakhstan, Sokol International Racetrack (Almaty)

 

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