End of the road for Christophe Pourcel and CLS
Friday 28 September: Last round of the 2012 Motocross World Championship, the GP of Germany was the last one for team CP377. Christophe Pourcel and Jean Jacques Luisetti parts away but will keep a friendly relationship.
Jean Jacques Luisetti and Christophe Pourcel parts away but will keep a friendly relationship.
The contract between Christophe and Jean
Jacques came to an end last weekend, after a strong season as Christophe
won two Grand Prix and was a podium contender during the GP campaign.
Coming back racing in Europe last season, Christophe had fun again on a
bike and enjoyed fighting with Cairoli, Desalle and the others. He is
now free of any contract and will have time to think about his future.
Christophe Pourcel: "Unfortunately we had some issues in the last GP’s with the starts, and
it affected our results; the bike was wheeling too much, and we would
have continued working if the season was not finished. With bad starts
it was not easy to battle with Cairoli in Italy, and in Germany it was
even worse as the start was so important there. Anyway I’m happy with
our results; the team didn’t exist one year ago and we won heats and
GP’s in the most competitive series, with a Kawasaki that was nearly a
production one against many factory bikes. Our goal was a top five
results and we reached it, and with our experience I’m sure that in 2013
we would have been racing for the title. But we’ll never now as team
CP377 stops racing activities, as we didn’t accumulate enough budget for
next season; with Jean Jacques we’ve decided to stop our strong
cooperation, and since now I’m not anymore contracted with anybody. I
will for sure continue riding motocross bikes but at the moment it will
be just for fun and only for fun, during the Charity Days that I will
continue to organise as well as during some testing sessions or the next
Supercross of Paris Bercy. It will offer me great opportunities to talk
with people and friends, to enjoy riding a bike without the racing
pressure. But be sure that I will prepare seriously for Bercy, as I
don’t want to miss my comeback in Supercross in front of my fans” said
Christophe after the German GP.
Jean Jacques Luisetti: "We built this program
with Christophe at the end of 2012, and we got great results with
Christophe and Sébastien, with GP success and podiums for Christophe but
also a French Elite title with Seb. Unfortunately we cant’ continue
next season, for financial reasons, and it’s a shame because we have
proved that we can race with the factory teams. I’m disappointed, but
I’m also happy and proud to have been able to help Christophe to race
the GP’s during nearly two seasons. My goal was to continue with him,
but the crisis is there and we couldn’t find the solutions to go on; so
we’ve decided to officialise our decision early. It will help
Christophe, who has now no more contracts with us, to decide about his
future. On a personal point of view, this experience will stay as one of
the strongest for Jean Jacques Luisetti in his racing career” ended the
French manager, who will focus next season in the MX1 class with Tommy
Searle, but also on the MX2 with two GP riders and one European
contender.
CP377 as we have known him this year.
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