Randy de Puniet to shore up SRC Kawasaki at the Bol d’Or

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Published 05/09/2016 at 17:34 GMT

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Randy de Puniet will ride the factory-backed Kawasaki alongside Gregory Leblanc and Fabien Foret at the Bol d’Or, the opening round of the FIM EWC championship to be held in Castellet on 17 and 18 September.

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Yet another MotoGP rider is making a foray into the FIM EWC! With Matthieu Lagrive leaving to join Team April Moto Motors Events, Team SRC Kawasaki needed to recruit a strong rider to help it achieve its goal of winning.

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So Gilles Stafler’s team, the winner of the 2015 Bol d’Or, has signed up the French for this year’s Bol d’Or. He’ll be at the start of the race – the first of the six rounds of the new-style FIM EWC 2016-2017 season, together with Grégory Leblanc and Fabien Foret.

This will be Randy de Puniet’s first time at the Bol d’Or. He made a noteworthy previous appearance in endurance racing at the 2014 Suzuka 8 Hours, placing second in the saddle of the Yoshimura Suzuki.

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