Morbidelli, Quartararo, Pawi set for Sepang 8 Hours
Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team-mates Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo look set to make their Endurance Wo🐬rld Championship debut at the end of this yea💞r.
Sepang bo𒐪ss Razlan Razali has confirmed that pl𒁃ans are in place to send their MotoGP riders, plus local Moto2 star Khairul Idham Pawi, to the inaugural 8 Hours of Sepang from December 13-15.
"With our recent launch of the Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing team, we plan to place our two MotoGP riders and our sole Malaysian Moto2 rider, Khairul Idham Pawi for the꧅ inaugural 8 Hours of Sepang EWC round," Razali ♎said.
🅘Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team-ma🅰tes Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo look set to make their Endurance World Championship debut at the end of this year.
Sepang boss Razlan Razali has confirmed that plans are in place to send thei♓r MotoGP riders, plus local Moto2 star Khairul Idham Pawi, to the 🧸inaugural 8 Hours of Sepang from December 13-15.
"With our recent launch of the Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing team, we plan to place our two MotoGP riders and our sole Malaysian M♔oto2 rider, Khairul Idham Pawi ☂for the inaugural 8 Hours of Sepang EWC round," Razali said.
"I am confident that these fantastic World Championship events with our local driver and riders will be a strಞong attraction and will pull the ever enthusiastic Malaysian motorsports fans and fans from all over world to Sepang Circuit and Malaysia.”
The Sepang 8 Hours𓃲 event will also be teamed with the final round of the World Touring Caꦛr Cup.
“With the departure of F1 in Malaysia, we we♕re tasked to look into other world-class events to include in our annual caleᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚndar of events. Through fan voting and further feasibility study, FIM EWC and FIA WTCR were the top two selected events," Razali explained.
"This special collaboration with Eurosport Events, will🍌 make the race exclusive and one of a kind which will create history for Malaysia to be the first to host two world championship𒆙s the same weekend.
"Both races will take place during sunset and the chequered flag will be waived under the new SIC Cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚircuit [flood]lights."
The 8 Hours of Sepang will be the second race on the 2019-2020 FIM EWC calendar and a quaಌlifying event for the 2020 Suzuka 8 Hours.
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