Le Mans: Payne/Rousseau as fast as none

The first FIM Sidecar World Championship race of the Le Mans season was convincingly won by Harry Payne and Kevin Rousseau (Steinhausen Racing) on Friday afternoon. Despite technical problems in the first qualifying session, the duo managed to take pole in the second session, a harbinger of their strong performance in the first race of [...] The message World Cup Sidecar: Payne and Rousseau win opening race in Le Mans, Streuer withdraws appeared…

With Payne, Schlosser, Christie, Päivärinta and Ellis, the top 5 of last year's sidecar World Cup will also take the top five places in the starting grid for the World Cup start in Le Mans.