The eighth round of the 2024 FIM Superbike World Championship was held at the Magny-Cours circuit in France earlier this month. This is also the sixth race of the 2024 season for the WorldSSP300 class.
For the second year in a row, the KOVE Triumph Locomotive Factory Team, which is fielding a factory team in the WorldSSP300 class (WSSP300), has a Spain driver combination of M. Garcia in car No. 22 and Julio Garcia Gonzalez in car number 48. In addition, the team will compete this year in a 2024-spec 321 RR-S car with a new engine (the FIM-registered model has factory number P310, while the 2023-spec car is P303) and is looking to build on last year's example.
In the pre-race Superpole qualifying, M. Garcia set a personal best lap of 1:52.774 to finish fifth on the grid in the first quarter, followed by teammate J. Garcia in sixth place with a best lap time of 1:52.856.
The first quarter of the game was as fierce as ever, and the first quarter of the game under the wet showed an unpredictable situation, and in the end, J. Garcia won the eighth place in the first quarter, and M. Garcia, who had slowed down due to technical problems, also finished 14th and collected points; In the second quarter, which caused the original 11-lap race to be terminated by a red flag on the eighth lap due to a serious accident, J. Garcia became one of the three drivers who were taken to the medical center for a medical examination in the accident. In the end, based on lap 7 before the accident, M. Garcia took fifth place, and J. Garcia, who was penalized one position, also took eighth.
After the race in France, M. Garcia was temporarily fifth in the drivers' standings with 102 points, while J. Garcia was tenth with 74 points. The two drivers have finished on the podium four times in the six races that have ended, and there are still two races left in the 2024 season, including the seventh race at the Aragon Circuit in Spain this week, which will still be the goal of the KOVE factory team.